Roxy Music release a newly expanded edition of their second album For Your Pleasure on November 6.
The set contains unheard studio recordings, songwriting sketches, rehearsals, outtakes, live sessions and rare unseen performances including “Grey Lagoons – 1971 Demo” (original title: “The Bogus Man Part 2”), which you can hear below.
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The album finds Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Brian Eno and Paul Thompson following up their 1972 debut, Roxy Music.
Remembers Ferry: “It was a good pressure. Realising, now there’s an audience to write for. An intelligent audience. 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 back into a recording studio and make a better record than the first one. Nick de Ville had a cottage in Derbyshire, and offered to let me have it for a few days. So I went up there with the sole purpose of writing songs. I had this great little Renault 4, and I filled the car with stuff: keyboards, a guitar, an amp, tape recorders, pads of paper and pens. I remember driving up in this crammed car with its very interesting gear stick. The cottage was quite remote, out in the Derbyshire Dales – I had to call into some local farmer to get the key, then on up a track – and very basic. I must have taken provisions, because I couldn’t cook, but I was full of energy. I was completely alone out there, and just really focused on writing this stuff. I remember sheets of paper all over the floor, working on things like ‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache’ and ‘Editions Of You’. Those few days in that cottage were crucial to the making of For Your Pleasure.”
The 2026 edition of For Your Pleasure will be available in a variety of formats including 2LP (Black vinyl, and in Blue Pearl Vinyl as a D2C Exclusive), 2CD, Digital, Blu-Ray, Dolby ATMOS, and as a 3CD+1DVD Super Deluxe Edition.
The 2CD Deluxe Edition includes the original album, plus AIR Studios outtakes, singles and BBC sessions, presented in a hardcover digibook with a new essay and unseen images.
The 2LP Vinyl edition features the original album, plus AIR Studios outtakes in a gatefold sleeve.
For Your Pleasure is also available in a Blu-Ray edition, available exclusively via SuperDeluxeEdition.com. Featuring the album newly mixed in Atmos, 5.1 and stereo, the track listing also includes the “Pyjamarama” singles, plus instrumentals, live sessions and studio outtakes, with additional 5.1 mixes by Steven Wilson.
The 3CD+1DVD Super Deluxe Edition presents the definitive collector’s release of For Your Pleasure. In addition to the original album, remastered by Bob Ludwig, the release features a second CD of 20 unheard songwriting sketches recorded at home by Bryan Ferry, band rehearsals and studio outtakes newly mastered by John Webber at AIR Studios. A third CD is filled with live sessions, singles and instrumentals, including 14 previously unheard recordings. A DVD features rare TV and live performances from the 1972–1973 period, originally broadcast by the BBC, German and Swiss television networks. A 116-page book, complete with exclusive archive content, includes a 7000-word essay built from new interviews with the band, producers and creative team, and a 2500-word essay by Michael Bracewell. The book is illustrated with many rare and unpublished photographs, original marketing materials (including press materials from original publicist Simon Puxley), lyrics and work-in-progress lyric notes by Bryan Ferry, tape scans, tour dates, and a For Your Pleasure chronology. The book also includes an essay by Nick de Ville on Roxy Music’s visual world.
For Your Pleasure 3CD+DVD Super Deluxe Edition Track Listing:
CD1 – For Your Pleasure
Do The Strand
Beauty Queen
Strictly Confidential
Editions Of You
In Every Dream Home A Heartache
The Bogus Man
Grey Lagoons
For Your Pleasure
CD2 – Demos, Rehearsals & Studio Outtakes
Pyjamarama – guitar & vocal
Do The Strand – piano & vocal
Beauty Queen – tremolo piano
Beauty Queen – electric piano
Beauty Queen – piano & vocal
Strictly Confidential (segue into)
Editions Of You – electric piano
In Every Dream Home A Heartache – farfisa & guitar
In Every Dream Home A Heartache – tremolo guitar
For Your Pleasure – electric piano
Pyjamarama – Rehearsal 1973
Bogus Man – Rehearsal 1973
Grey Lagoons – 1971 Demo (Original title The Bogus Man Part 2)
Pyjamarama – AIR Studios outtake
Beauty Queen – AIR Studios outtake
Strictly Confidential – AIR Studios outtakes
Editions Of You – AIR Studios outtake
The Bogus Man – AIR Studios outtake
Grey Lagoons – AIR Studios outtake
For Your Pleasure – Eno tapes
CD3 – Live Sessions, Singles & Instrumentals
Grey Lagoons – BBC Paris Theatre (London) August 1972 (first live performance)
For Your Pleasure – Peel Sessions November 1972
Do The Strand – Peel Sessions March 1973
Editions Of You – Peel Sessions March 1973
Pyjamarama – Peel Sessions March 1973
In Every Dream Home A Heartache – Peel Sessions March 1973
Pyjamarama – A side single
The Pride And The Pain – B side single
Do The Strand – (instrumental)
Beauty Queen – (instrumental)
Strictly Confidential – (instrumental)
Editions Of You – (instrumental)
In Every Dream Home A Heartache – (instrumental)
The Bogus Man – (instrumental)
Grey Lagoons – (instrumental)
For Your Pleasure – (instrumental)
DVD – TV & Live Performances
Pyjamarama – Top of the Pops (lost tape)
For Your Pleasure – Full House November 1972
Grey Lagoons – Full House November 1972
Do The Strand – Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
In Every Dream Home A Heartache – Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
Do The Strand – Live at Montreux April 1973
Grey Lagoons – Live at Montreux April 1973
Beauty Queen – Live at Montreux April 1973
The Bogus Man – Live at Montreux April 1973
In Every Dream Home A Heartache – Live at Montreux April 1973
Editions Of You – Live at Montreux April 1973
Do The Strand – Musikladen 1973
Editions Of You – Musikladen 1973
In Every Dream Home A Heartache – Musikladen 1973