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For Our Pleasure: Above, Phil Manzanera surrounds one and all with guitar-born soundscapes rife for Atmos re-interpretation. Photo by CTA. Phil Manzanera likes thinking in 360 degrees. Ever since Steven Wilson masterminded a stellar 24-bit/96kHz DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix of Roxy Music’s self-titled June 1972 debut album for inclusion in a 45th anniversary 3CD/1DVD box set released by Virgin/EMI/UMC in February 2018, he’s been hooked on surround.

The new 30th-anniversary edition of Bryan Ferry’s Mamouna album is a swanky, three-disc affair certainly befitting rock’s King of Cool.

Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera and Andy MacKay add to the sounds of the season with this week's (Friday, November 17th) re-release of "Christmas." The 26-song set was originally released in 1989 and became a seasonal favorite in the U.K. This week's edition will be issued on vinyl and CD, and guitarist Manzanera tells us that it remains a project he and MacKay are very proud of: "The difference with this one is it's all instrumental, and you think, 'Oh, that's a bit dull' because it's got Appalachian sort of influences, clues influences, and ...

Emerging fully-formed in 1972 with their stunningly original, eponymously titled debut album, most people’s first glimpse of Roxy Music was of them performing Virginia Plain on Top Of The Pops.

In honor of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2023 induction class, we ranked every member from best to worst.