Virginia Plain Plain" from one of his own paintings, featuring an image of cigarette packaging - "Virginia Plain" is a variety of cigarette tobacco. Ferry later said in an interview: It was a watercolor or a painting on paper. It was just like a surreal drawing of a giant cigarette packet, with a pin-up girl on it. I liked that phrase Virginia Plain…so it later became the title of the first single I put out with Roxy Music – with a slightly imponderable lyric... The name "Robert E. Lee" refers to music industry lawyer Robert Lee, practising at London law firm Harbottle
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