Roxy Music announce expanded For Your Pleasure reissue with unheard demos

The announcement comes more than 50 years after the record’s original 1973 release and pulls together home demos, studio outtakes, live sessions, and TV appearances.

“Grey Lagoons – 1971 Demo (original title: The Bogus Man Part 2)” is out now. Recorded in summer 1971, it captures the group before their debut, with Graham Simpson on bass and Roger Bunn on guitar.

The reissue will appear in several formats, including a 3CD+1DVD Super Deluxe Edition, 2CD, 2LP, digital, Blu-ray, and Dolby Atmos. The Super Deluxe features 20 unheard songwriting sketches recorded at home by Bryan Ferry, band rehearsals, and studio outtakes, plus 14 previously unheard live sessions and instrumentals. The 2CD and 2LP editions include the original album and AIR Studios outtakes.

Ferry described the writing sessions at Nick de Ville’s cottage in Derbyshire: “It was a good pressure. Realising, now there’s an audience to write for. An intelligent audience. I felt a responsibility for the work that I hadn’t for the first album.” He added: “There was a hunger in the whole band to do more: a very strong urge to get back into a recording studio and make a better record than the first one.” Working alone there, he said: “I was completely alone out there, and just really focused on writing this stuff.”

The album artwork was shot with Amanda Lear and a Cadillac de Ville in an empty Marylebone car showroom. Nick de Ville recalled: “Bryan in chauffeur’s uniform, Amanda Lear as femme fatale, a Cadillac de Ville, and an empty car showroom in Marylebone. Good pros (and inspired amateurs) always see their way through, and so it was on this shoot.” The record was also the last Roxy Music LP to feature Brian Eno.

For Your Pleasure artwork

For Your Pleasure tracklist

CD1 – For Your Pleasure

1 Do The Strand

2 Beauty Queen

3 Strictly Confidential

4 Editions Of You

5 In Every Dream Home A Heartache

6 The Bogus Man

7 Grey Lagoons

8 For Your Pleasure

CD2 – Demos, Rehearsals & Studio Outtakes

1 Pyjamarama - guitar & vocal

2 Do The Strand - piano & vocal

3 Beauty Queen - tremolo piano

4 Beauty Queen - electric piano

5 Beauty Queen - piano & vocal

6 Strictly Confidential (segue into)

7 Editions Of You - electric piano

8 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - farfisa & guitar

9 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - tremolo guitar

10 For Your Pleasure - electric piano

11 Pyjamarama - Rehearsal 1973

12 Bogus Man - Rehearsal 1973

13 Grey Lagoons - 1971 Demo (Original title The Bogus Man Part 2)

14 Pyjamarama - AIR Studios outtake

15 Beauty Queen - AIR Studios outtake

16 Strictly Confidential - AIR Studios outtakes

17 Editions Of You - AIR Studios outtake

18 The Bogus Man - AIR Studios outtake

19 Grey Lagoons - AIR Studios outtake

20 For Your Pleasure - Eno tapes

CD3 – Live Sessions, Singles & Instrumentals

1 Grey Lagoons - BBC Paris Theatre (London) August 1972 (first live performance)

2 For Your Pleasure - Peel Sessions November 1972

3 Do The Strand - Peel Sessions March 1973

4 Editions Of You - Peel Sessions March 1973

5 Pyjamarama - Peel Sessions March 1973

6 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Peel Sessions March 1973

7 Pyjamarama - A side single

8 The Pride And The Pain - B side single

9 Do The Strand - (instrumental)

10 Beauty Queen - (instrumental)

11 Strictly Confidential - (instrumental)

12 Editions Of You - (instrumental)

13 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - (instrumental)

14 The Bogus Man - (instrumental)

15 Grey Lagoons - (instrumental)

16 For Your Pleasure - (instrumental)

DVD – TV & Live Performances

1 Pyjamarama - Top of the Pops (lost tape)

2 For Your Pleasure - Full House November 1972

3 Grey Lagoons - Full House November 1972

4 Do The Strand - Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973

5 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973

6 Do The Strand - Live at Montreux April 1973

7 Grey Lagoons - Live at Montreux April 1973

8 Beauty Queen - Live at Montreux April 1973

9 The Bogus Man - Live at Montreux April 1973

10 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Live at Montreux April 1973

11 Editions Of You - Live at Montreux April 1973

12 Do The Strand - Musikladen 1973

13 Editions Of You - Musikladen 1973

14 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Musikladen 1973