Bryan Ferry and Phil Manzanera before the band recorded its first album (early Peel Sessions for the UK's BBC Radio 1 feature O'List's playing). Roxy Music's first hit "Virginia Plain" made the UK top 5 in 1972, and was followed up with several hit singles and albums, with Ferry as their lead vocalist and instrumentalist (he taught himself the piano in his mid-twenties) and Eno contributing synthesiser backing. After their second album, Brian Eno left Roxy Music, leaving Ferry its undisputed leader. Ferry started a parallel solo career in 1973, initially performing cover versions of old standards on albums such as "These
The Real Thing (UK band) reached number 2. In 1976, they released their first album, "Real Thing", which included both of their hit singles as well as a third UK hit, "You'll Never Know What You're Missing", which peaked at No. 16. They continued recording prolifically, releasing a steady stream of subsequent albums: 1977's "Four from Eight" (originally to have been called "Liverpool 8" in honour of the racially mixed, economically depressed neighbourhood in which they grew up, before Pye rejected the title), 1978's "Step Into Our World", (reissued in 1979 as "Can You Feel the Force") and 1982's compilation "100 Minutes". During the time