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“I suppose I have too much skin in the game-whoops. “I can’t get my head around” the album’s reputation as an aphrodisiac, Manzanera says.
The Twitter meme of Avalon being an album to fuck to is pretty hilarious. There are two activities for which Avalon is perfect: testing a new pair of speakers, and seducing someone. And seven of Roxy’s eight albums are killers. People remember you at your prime, not your desperate late-career bid for pop relevance. It may seem peculiar that a band is headlining Madison Square Garden for the first time after not releasing any new music in 40 years, but as Billy Joel, Steely Dan, Television, and Eagles have shown, not recording is a great career move. This time, Manzanera didn’t even bother to extend an invitation to Eno, who’s as averse to touring as he is to revisiting the past, but the guitarist holds out hope that his erstwhile bandmate will appear at a show or two. There’s also the issue of age: Mackay is 76, and Ferry turns 77 this month. You could say we’re doing this for mental health reasons,” he chortles. You think to yourself, ‘Why was I annoyed at that person? I can’t remember.’ Playing the songs is almost like meditation. Whatever differences we may have had over the years, you forget them. There’s been a reflective mood amongst all musicians during COVID, and an urge to play live. “During lockdown, everyone was a bit bored. Manzanera lives about ten minutes from Ferry’s country house, and recently, after the guitarist played on some tracks the singer was recording, they met for tea and Ferry proposed a tour. Manzanera hit the jackpot in 2011, when a guitar riff he played on his 1978 album K-Scope was sampled in Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild.” The money generated by that sample was “more than I ever earned in Roxy,” he revealed. The recording session ended abruptly, but Ferry continued to tour, playing lots of Roxy songs with other musicians. “During a coffee break one day, Eno happened to comment, ‘It’s funny how we all, 40 years later, fall into the same kind of people we were before.’ And I thought to myself, ‘This is never going to work. “I went round to Eno’s and said, ‘Would you like to participate?’ Normally, he’d say, ‘You’re joking.’ I said, ‘We’ll do some of your songs.’ And I persuaded him to come along-for about three days, it turned out.
Roxy had been offered a record deal, and Manzanera was eager to take it. He didn’t pretend the band members never fell out: In fact, he tells a story about a short-lived 2006 reunion that included Eno. On the afternoon we spoke, Manzanera, who’s 71, was in a merry mood.
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