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
Hit Music Hit Music Hit Music was a weekly British chart newsletter; sister publication to "Music Week". "Hit Music" existed for almost nine years, supplying the official UK music charts (as compiled by Gallup and later OCC/CIN). The founding editors were Graham Walker and Tony Brown. The first issue was published 5.09.1992 (chart date: 12.09.1992), the last issue 5.05.2001 (no. 439). Originally it ran parallel to "Music Week"′s other chart newsletter "ChartsPlus" (edited also by Graham Walker and Tony Brown), which had been established in May 1991, shortly after the demise of "Record Mirror". "ChartsPlus" featured the singles chart with positions 76