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
1972 Chesterfield 250 follows: 1972 Chesterfield 250 The 1972 Chesterfield 250 was an endurance race for Series Production Touring Cars complying with CAMS Group E regulations. The race, which was Round 1 of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, was held at the Adelaide International Raceway near Virginia in South Australia on 27 August 1972 over 165 laps, totalling 247.5 miles. The field was divided into four classes, split via "CP Units", where the engine capacity of the vehicle (in litres) was multiplied by the retail price of the vehicle (in dollars) to give a CP Unit (i.e. Capacity Price Unit) value. Results were