Roxy Music-When We Were Young-BBC 1972/73 w/Brian Eno

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ROXY MUSIC WHEN WE WERE YOUNG OH BOYOH BOY 1-9033.Roxy Music’s When We Were Young was released by Oh Boy in 1989 with a nice color cover, two tracks mis-titled and with just the generic “live in London, 1972″ to put things in perspective.Between January 1972 and March 1973, Roxy Music were in the BBC studios for several sessions for John Peel’s Sounds Of The Seventies. It appears When We Were Young contains the first and last BBC sessions and two songs, including the hit Virginia Plain, from July 1972, just as it was released as a 7-inch single.The most interesting of the sets is the sessions from January 1972, before Roxy Music had a record deal. This is the band raw and with guest Davy O’List of the Nice on guitar. According to Simon Galloway at the roxyrama site, this session is probably the only proper recording made by this early incarnation of Roxy Music. Pay attention to Davy O’List’s soloing on Sea Breeze. It’s something you don’t usually hear on a Roxy Music song.Of the final session, this is what Simon Galloway writes, “Pyjamarama is a far more intimate take than the single version, showing something of its Beatles influence until Eno brilliantly wreaks havoc on Andy Mackay’s sax break… In Every Dream Home A Heartache starts out almost identical to the album, with less of the drama but more of Mackay’s subdued improv and read more

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