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Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by , who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist . Alongside Ferry, the other longtime members were (guitar), (saxophone and oboe) and (drums and percussion), and other former members include (synthesizer and "treatments"), (synthesiser and violin), and (bass). Although the band took a break from group activities in 1976 and again in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and toured together intermittently between that time and their break-up in 2011. Ferry frequently enlisted members of Roxy Music as session musicians for his solo releases.
Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 (Performers) and Roxy Music frontman was awarded a CBE by Her Majesty the Queen of England on 30 November 2011.
Roxy Music have released 28 albums and 38 compilations since the band’s inception back in 1971. Of these, 18 have made the ‘UK Top 40’ music charts with 11 of them reaching the ‘Top 10’ and 4 albums reaching the No.1 position. The albums to hit the top spot are ‘58357’ (Dec 1973), ‘41847’ (May 1980), ‘58313’ (Jun 1982) and ‘’ (Apr 1986). These four albums cumulatively spent 13 weeks at the No.1 position. All 18 charting albums, have in total, been in the chart’s Top 10 for 76 weeks and within the Top 40 for 260 weeks.
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