What was the first hit for Roxy Music
Roxy Music (album) the cover of Mott the Hoople's 1974 album "The Hoople"). The album was dedicated to Susie, a drummer who auditioned for Roxy Music in the early days. "Roxy Music", particularly the album's LP incarnation, has been released in different packages over the years. The album's original cover, as issued in 1972 by Island Records, featured a gatefold sleeve picturing the band (including original bass guitarist Graham Simpson) in stage attire designed by Antony Price, and did not include the track "Virginia Plain". The album's original US release, in late 1972 on Warner Bros. Records' Reprise subsidiary, included "Virginia Plain", which
Roxy Music top-10 single "Street Life". The fourth album, "Country Life", was released in 1974, and was the first Roxy Music album to enter the US Top 40, albeit at No. 37. "Country Life" was met with widespread critical acclaim, with "Rolling Stone" referring to it "as if Ferry ran a cabaret for psychotics, featuring chanteurs in a state of shock". Their fifth album, "Siren", contained their only US hit, "Love Is the Drug". (Ferry said the song came to him while kicking the leaves during a walk through Hyde Park.) After the concert tours in support of "Siren" in 1976, Roxy