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 ...