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 ...
It was 1974 and Roxy Music was playing in Birmingham, England, supporting their third album, Country Life, when a 14-year-old John Taylor, along with his schoolmate (and later Duran Duran bandmate) ...
Manzanera will take part in an on-stage interview about his book and play a few songs from his extensive catalog during the ...
Phil Manzanera’s introduction to Roxy Music happened over a half century ago. He had answered an ad that the U.K. avant-garde rock act placed in Melody Maker, reportedly seeking “the perfect guitarist ...
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 ...
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 ...
Phil Manzanera makes my Top 5 favorite guitarists list. The fact that I’m always trying to shoehorn in about 27 players into that Top 5 list — after all, can’t leave out Drew Abbott from Bob Seger’s ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 26: Guitarist Phil Manzanera performs with Roxy Music at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) ...