Roxy Music share previously unreleased ‘Pyjamarama’ demo from expanded ‘For Your Pleasure’ reissue

Roxy Music have shared a previously unreleased early demo of ‘Pyjamarama’, taken from their forthcoming expanded reissue of ‘For Your Pleasure’.

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Intitulada ‘Pyjamarama – guitarra e vocal’, a gravação minimalista é a versão mais antiga conhecida do single de 1973 e permanece inaudível há mais de 50 anos.

Featuring only Bryan Ferry’s voice and acoustic guitar, it also documents the first time the Roxy Music frontman had written a song using the instrument.

O demo foi gravado enquanto Ferry estava sozinho em uma cabana remota nos Derbyshire Dales, onde ele se retirou em meio à agenda frenética de turnê da banda para se concentrar na escrita do segundo álbum.

Listen to the previously unreleased demo here.

Guitarist Phil Manzanera has also recalled helping Ferry learn enough guitar to develop the track.

Embora estreitamente associado à era “For Your Pleasure”, “Pyjamarama” foi originalmente lançada como single independente em março de 1973 e alcançou o número 10 na parada de singles do Reino Unido.

Roxy Music have also shared a newly recovered performance of ‘Pyjamarama’ from Top Of The Pops in March 1973. The tape had been missing from the BBC archive, but was recently rediscovered in a collection belonging to mobile disco DJ Roger Hill.

The expanded ‘For Your Pleasure’ was first announced in August, when the band also shared a previously unheard 1971 demo of ‘Grey Lagoons’.

Due out on November 6 via UMR/Island EMI, the Super Deluxe edition spans three CDs and a DVD, featuring songwriting demos, rehearsals, AIR Studios outtakes, BBC sessions, instrumentals and archive TV and concert footage from 1972 and 1973.

Entre as outras raridades estão esboços iniciais de piano e teclado de 'Do The Strand', 'Beauty Queen', 'Editions Of You' e 'For Your Pleasure', bem como múltiplas versões inacabadas de 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' e fitas com Brian Eno.

The reissue will also be available across 2LP, 2CD, digital, Blu-ray and Dolby Atmos formats. Pre-orders are available here.

Originalmente lançado em março de 1973, “For Your Pleasure” foi o segundo álbum de estúdio da Roxy Music e o último a contar com Eno como membro da banda.

Roxy Music most recently reunited for a 50th anniversary tour in 2022, with Ferry, Manzanera, Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson performing together for the first time in more than a decade.

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