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TEENAGE KICKS!  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
29519 posts
10/5/2012 10:30 am
TEENAGE KICKS!

Roxy Music was the first live band I ever saw at the age of 13. I had led a sheltered life at an all-boys boarding school and this was a rare trip outside of school. It was very exciting standing next to girls at the gig.

Roxy Music released their album, Country Life, in 1974 - it is ranked number 387 on Rolling Stone's list of best albums of all time).

Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music's singer, named the album after the rural lifestyle magazine of the same name. He was and remains fond of the English countryside; he backed his , Otis Ferry, who was a keen fox-hunter until its ban in the UK and who also spent four months in prison in the campaign to get the ban overturned.

As a , it was not just the music that drew me to Roxy Music. It was their album cover. Below is the classic cover of the Country Life album:



The photograph is of two scantily-clad models, Constanze Karoli and Eveline Grunwald. Bryan Ferry met them in Portugal and persuaded them to do the photograph for the album.

The album cover was banned in several countries, including the Netherlands, Spain and the United States.

For me, this album cover was the closest I got to girls during most of my early teenage years. The album cover left a lot to the imagination by revealing just a little.

Did you like this album cover?

Did you have any similar teenage kicks?

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
10/6/2012 5:26 am

Here's a spoof of Roxy Music's Country Life album cover:

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spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
10/6/2012 5:27 am

And another spoof:

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