Roxy Music Roxy Music

摘要

Brian Eno has said that when he boarded a Bakerloo Line tube train at Elephant & Castle in December 1970, his decision as to which door to walk through changed his life. It also helped change the face of British music in that decade. If that sounds a tad melodramatic, it's because Eno found himself sitting opposite an old friend, Andy Mackay, whom he had first met in 1968. Mackay was now playing, with Bryan Ferry, in the first incarnation of a group that would become Roxy Music. Knowing that Eno owned a reel-to-reel tape recorder, Mackay explained that the group wanted to make some demos. He also had an early VCS3 'Suitcase' synthesiser, which he agreed to lend to Eno. Although not a musician, Eno took to the VCS3's noise-making capabilities like the proverbial duck to water. In the New Year the group began rehearsals in Eno's primitively soundproofed flat in Camberwell.