Roxy Music Announce Expanded For Your Pleasure Reissue

Roxy Music have announced a comprehensive reissue of their second album, For Your Pleasure, set for release on November 6, 2026. The expanded edition, celebrating more than 50 years since the original 1973 release, will feature a wealth of previously unheard material, including home demos, studio outtakes, live sessions, and rare television performances.

The announcement was accompanied by the immediate release of a previously unheard track, "Grey Lagoons (1971 Demo)," originally titled "The Bogus Man Part 2." Recorded in the summer of 1971, the demo captures the band's early chemistry before their debut album, featuring Bryan Ferry alongside Graham Simpson on bass and Roger Bunn on guitar. The recording is part of a homemade tape that first brought the group to the attention of the music press.

Frontman Bryan Ferry reflected on the creative pressure of making the band's sophomore record. "It was a good pressure. Realising, now there's an audience to write for. An intelligent audience," he said. "I felt a responsibility for the work that I hadn't for the first album, certainly with regard to the lyrics. There was a hunger in the whole band to do more, a very strong urge to get...