Flesh And Blood

Released: 23 May 1980

Sixty weeks in the UK albums chart, seventeen weeks in the Top 10, four weeks at No. 1, three UK Top 20 singles… for Roxy Music 1980’s ‘Flesh And Blood’ represented their commercial peak to date. Always evolving, Ferry, Mackay and Manzanera and producer Rhett Davis alchemised an entirely complete and new atmosphere, moving on from ‘Manifesto’s angular, more frenetic moments in favour of a kind of bejewelled fusion of soul and future-facing classic pop. All three of the hit singles – ‘Over You’, ‘Oh Yeah (On The Radio)’ and ‘Same Old Scene’ – represent high water marks in the Roxy canon while the album’s takes on Wilson Pickett’s ‘In The Midnight Hour’ and The Byrds’ ‘Eight Miles High’ utterly transform them into something new, one could say into “Roxy” music.

Tracklist

1. In The Midnight Hour *
2. Oh Yeah *
3. Same Old Scene *
4. Flesh And Blood
5. My Only Love
6. Over You *
7. Eight Miles High
8. Rain Rain Rain
9. No Strange Delight
10. Running Wild

(* album singles)

Deep Dive

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Musicians
  • Bryan Ferry – Vocals, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar, Strings
  • Andy Mackay – Saxophones, Oboe
  • Phil Manzanera – Guitar

with

  • Paul Carrack – Strings, Organ, Piano
  • Neil Hubbard – Guitar
  • Neil Jason – Bass
  • Andy Newmark – Drums
  • Simon Philips – Percussion
  • Allan Schwartzberg – Drums, Percussion
  • Alan Spenner – Bass
  • Gary Tibbs – Bass
Credits
  • Roxy Music and Rhett Davies - Production
  • Rhett Davies - Engineering
  • Bob Clearmountain - Mixing
  • Robert C. Ludwig - Mastering

Official Video

Same Old Scene

Live on Top of the Pops, 1980

Oh Yeah