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
S Group Today, many of these buildings are protected by law. The S Group also operates the "Sokos" chain of department stores, "ABC" service stations, the hotel chain "Sokos Hotels", several brands of restaurants such as "Rosso", "Sevilla" and "Amarillo", the "Agrimarket" chain, which sells agricultural and DIY supplies, and a number of car dealerships for Peugeot. The S Group operates Finland's first so-called "supermarket bank", the S-Bank (S-Pankki Oy). S Group The S Group (, ) is a Finnish retailing cooperative organisation with its head office in Helsinki. Founded in 1904, it consists of 22 regional cooperatives operating all around Finland