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
Plain English a slim paperback "Plain Words, a guide to the use of English" in 1948, followed by a sequel "The ABC of Plain Words" in 1951, and a hardback book combining the best of both, "The Complete Plain Words", in 1954 – which has never been out of print since. Gowers argued that legal English was a special case, saying that legal drafting: However, there is a trend toward plainer language in legal documents, and the 1999 "Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts" regulations mandate "plain and intelligible" language. In the UK, Plain English Campaign has been campaigning since 1979 "against gobbledygook,