The announcement comes more than 50 years after the record’s original 1973 release and pulls together home demos, studio outtakes, live sessions, and TV appearances.
“Grey Lagoons – 1971 Demo (original title: The Bogus Man Part 2)” is out now. Recorded in summer 1971, it captures the group before their debut, with Graham Simpson on bass and Roger Bunn on guitar.
The reissue will appear in several formats, including a 3CD+1DVD Super Deluxe Edition, 2CD, 2LP, digital, Blu-ray, and Dolby Atmos. The Super Deluxe features 20 unheard songwriting sketches recorded at home by Bryan Ferry, band rehearsals, and studio outtakes, plus 14 previously unheard live sessions and instrumentals. The 2CD and 2LP editions include the original album and AIR Studios outtakes.
Ferry described the writing sessions at Nick de Ville’s cottage in Derbyshire: “It was a good pressure. Realising, now there’s an audience to write for. An intelligent audience. I felt a responsibility for the work that I hadn’t for the first album.” He added: “There was a hunger in the whole band to do more: a very strong urge to get back into a recording studio and make a better record than the first one.” Working alone there, he said: “I was completely alone out there, and just really focused on writing this stuff.”
The album artwork was shot with Amanda Lear and a Cadillac de Ville in an empty Marylebone car showroom. Nick de Ville recalled: “Bryan in chauffeur’s uniform, Amanda Lear as femme fatale, a Cadillac de Ville, and an empty car showroom in Marylebone. Good pros (and inspired amateurs) always see their way through, and so it was on this shoot.” The record was also the last Roxy Music LP to feature Brian Eno.
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tracklist
1 Do The Strand
2 Beauty Queen
3 Strictly Confidential
4 Editions Of You
5 In Every Dream Home A Heartache
6 The Bogus Man
7 Grey Lagoons
8 For Your Pleasure
CD2 – Demos, Rehearsals & Studio Outtakes
1 Pyjamarama -
2 Do The Strand -
3 Beauty Queen -
4 Beauty Queen -
5 Beauty Queen -
6 Strictly Confidential
7 Editions Of You -
8 In Every Dream Home A Heartache -
9 In Every Dream Home A Heartache -
10 For Your Pleasure -
11 Pyjamarama -
12 Bogus Man -
13 Grey Lagoons - 1971 Demo (Original title The Bogus Man Part 2)
14 Pyjamarama -
15 Beauty Queen -
16 Strictly Confidential -
17 Editions Of You -
18 The Bogus Man -
19 Grey Lagoons -
20 For Your Pleasure - Eno tapes
CD3 – Live Sessions, Singles & Instrumentals
1 Grey Lagoons - BBC Paris Theatre (London) August 1972 (first live performance)
2 For Your Pleasure -
3 Do The Strand -
4 Editions Of You -
5 Pyjamarama -
6 In Every Dream Home A Heartache -
7 Pyjamarama - A side single
8 The Pride And The Pain -
9 Do The Strand -
10 Beauty Queen -
11 Strictly Confidential -
12 Editions Of You -
13 In Every Dream Home A Heartache -
14 The Bogus Man -
15 Grey Lagoons -
16 For Your Pleasure -
DVD – TV & Live Performances
1 Pyjamarama - Top of the Pops (lost tape)
2 For Your Pleasure -
3 Grey Lagoons -
4 Do The Strand -
5 In Every Dream Home A Heartache -
6 Do The Strand - Live at Montreux April 1973
7 Grey Lagoons - Live at Montreux April 1973
8 Beauty Queen - Live at Montreux April 1973
9 The Bogus Man - Live at Montreux April 1973
10 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Live at Montreux April 1973
11 Editions Of You - Live at Montreux April 1973
12 Do The Strand -
13 Editions Of You -
14 In Every Dream Home A Heartache -