The Art of Roxy Music

Appropriately dressed for an afternoon in the park..

The importance and influence of the art direction of Roxy Music cannot be underestimated.

The art school background of key members was evident in the development of the band’s conceptual framework. Roxy was the first band to use the key pop art concept in rock music: artifice as art.

The music was incredibly unique and sophisticated, combining 50′s rock n roll, progressive rock, and the groundbreaking electronic noise of the creator of ambient music, Brian Eno.

Roxy Music’s album covers were a key element to their identity. The idea has been appropriated by so many bands, from heavy metal (scorpions, accept) to new romantic (basically all of them) it’s almost impossible to truly appreciate their impact at the time.

The records were the first to credit the art director, fashion stylist, hair stylist and model on the sleeve itself.

So let’s have a moment of silence….

 

And of course some bonus vid-spiration:

(well, it’s solo Bryan Ferry..but we get the ladies..)