Avalon

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List Price: £8.99 (GBP)
  • Lowest New Price: £3.99
  • Lowest Used Price: £1.34
  • Lowest Collectible Price: £10.00
  • Total New: 45
  • Total Used: 16
  • Total Collectible: 2
  • Total Refurbished: 0
  • Artist : Roxy Music
  • Binding : Audio CD
  • EAN : 0724384746025
  • Format : Original recording reissued
  • Format : Original recording remastered
  • Label : Virgin
  • Languages : Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Virgin
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.39 inches (Height) x 5.67 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.65 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Product Group : Music
  • Publisher : Virgin
  • Release Date : 1999-11-01
  • SKU : 00234352
  • Studio : Virgin
  • UPC : 724384746025

Hipper students of 1980s pop might like to pretend that Joy Division and The Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave miserabilist, nothing could match the stylised desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's first number one hit--a version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy"--and although that song isn't on here, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating", the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This". If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalogue: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis' pristine production. --Peter Paphides

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

  • Disc 1

    • 1: More Than This
    • 2: The Space Between
    • 3: Avalon
    • 4: India
    • 5: While My Heart Is Still Beating
    • 6: The Main Thing
    • 7: Take A Chance With Me
    • 8: To Turn You On
    • 9: True To Life
    • 10: Tara

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