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
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 By One", was released on single and spent three weeks at No.2 in the UK singles chart. Both tracks were then included in the album "We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", together with the last placed song "Songs of Praise". The album was also a No.2 hit in the UK. Roy Wood who had composed the last placed entry released his own version of the track on the B-Side of his 1973 No.18 hit "Dear Elaine". Later in 1972, the remaining three songs from the UK final were released by The New Seekers in the budget LP "What