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
Virginia S. Baker 76 due to complications from pneumonia. Born in 1921 in Baltimore City, Maryland, Virginia S. Baker was raised in East Baltimore and lived in Baltimore for her entire life. As a kid, Baker was often known by her nickname Queenie, or sometimes kids in the neighborhood referred to her as "queen of the hill". As an adult, Baker was given more nicknames, such as Queen of Fun, Baltimore's First Lady of Fun, and "Baltimore's oldest kid", which were often used by reporters when Baker was mentioned in newspaper articles. Baker's father, an immigrant from Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), changed