There can be few guitarists who have roamed so widely through the landscape of pop music as Phil Manzanera. Born in England but raised in, variously, Cuba, Venezuela and Hawaii, his playing has always ...
Phil Manzanera, the 71-year-old guitarist for art-rock pioneers Roxy Music, is leaning into a computer camera backdropped by a nondescript hotel room. The band has assembled in Toronto, where they’re ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Iconic British band Roxy Music haven't toured the States in 20 years. But the Rock ...
Vogue: You and Roxy Music were pioneers in something that’s now almost commonplace: the notion of a band or an artist fusing music and art and fashion and style. At the risk of being obvious or asking ...
As a solo artist and as the singer in Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry has long been the most elegant of rock stars, whether it’s the sophisticated croon that is his signature vocal style or the dapper ...
Phil Manzanera’s musical life has been closely tied to a very specific vintage electric guitar, which has been by the Roxy Music hero’s side for the majority of his career. It’s seen countless stages ...
As a solo artist and as the singer in Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry has long been the most elegant of rock stars, whether it’s the sophisticated croon that is his signature vocal style or the dapper ...
It was October of 2014 and Bryan Ferry — singer, songwriter, solo artist and erstwhile leader of the British art-rock band Roxy Music — was headed to play Boston’s Orpheum Theatre. Word came down day ...
Phil Manzanera remembers the first time Roxy Music played Madison Square Garden. Although it was 50 years ago, the guitarist can envision it as vividly and uncomfortably as one might recall a first ...
Undeterred, Manzanera stayed close to the band as its roadie. So when O'List departed from the band, the other members didn't have to look far for his replacement. “It's incredible,” Manzanera tells ...
Roxy Music saxophonist Andy Mackay was driving down to England’s West Country in mid-December when he got a text from Bryan Ferry saying that they’d been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ...