Manifesto (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Manifesto
Type = studio
Artist = Roxy Music


Released = start date|1979|3|1
Recorded = start date|1978–end date|1979, Ridge Farm Studio, Rusper, England; Basing Street Studios, London
Genre = Art rock, Dance music
Length = 42:33 (LP)
42:12 or 42:43 (CD)
Label = E.G./Polydor/Atco (original LP)
E.G./Polydor/Reprise (original CD)
EMI/Virgin (remastered CD)
Producer = Roxy Music
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:k9fqxqy5ld6e link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=roxy+music link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/roxymusic/albums/album/141100/review/5942773/manifesto link]
Last album = "Roxy Music Greatest Hits"
(1977)
This album = "Manifesto"
(1979)
Next album = "Flesh + Blood"
(1980)
Misc = Singles
Name = Manifesto
Type = studio
Single 1 = Trash
Single 1 date = start date|1979|2 cite book |title=The Essential Rock Discography |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |year=2006 |publisher=Canongate |location=Edinburgh |isbn=1841958603 |pages=p. 931 ]
Single 2 = Dance Away
Single 2 date = start date|1979|4
Single 3 = Angel Eyes
Single 3 date = start date|1979|4

"Manifesto" is the sixth studio album by Roxy Music, and was released in 1979 (see 1979 in music) by E.G. in the UK, Polydor in Europe and by Atco in the U.S.

Following an almost four-year recording hiatus, Roxy Music regrouped for this album, their first since 1975's "Siren". The first single from "Manifesto" was "Trash", which barely made the UK top 40. cite web |url=http://www.everyhit.com |title=UK Top 40 Hit Database |accessdate=2008-08-30 ] However, the second single, the disco-tinged "Dance Away", returned the band to the top 3, beaten to no 1 for 2 weeks from 26 May 1979 by Blondie's "Sunday Girl" and becoming one of their biggest 70s hits. The song was also released as a 12" extended version (running at six and half minutes), a format that had started to become popular in the late 1970s. The third single from the album was a remixed version of "Angel Eyes", which was also released as an extended 12" mix and also made the top 5 in the UK in August.

"Angel Eyes" and "Trash" were both repackaged heavily at the time - the single of "Angel Eyes" being far more electronic and "disco" in nature than the power-pop album track, and the "Trash" B-side version also being heavily reworked into an synthesizer-accompanied disco song.

The album itself peaked at no. 7 in the UK . The cover design which featured a variety of mannequins (a concept also used for the covers of the singles from the album), was created by Bryan Ferry with fashion designer Antony Price amongst others. The picture disc version of the album featured a version of the design in which the mannequins are unclothed.

Track listing

All songs written by Bryan Ferry except as noted.

ide one

# "Manifesto" (Ferry, Phil Manzanera) – 5:29
# "Trash" (Ferry, Manzanera) – 2:14
# "Angel Eyes" (Ferry, Andy Mackay) – 3:32
# "Still Falls the Rain" (Ferry, Manzanera) – 4:13
# "Stronger Through the Years" – 6:16

ide two

# "Ain't That So" – 5:39
# "My Little Girl" (Ferry, Manzanera) – 3:17
# "Dance Away" – 3:48
# "Cry, Cry, Cry" – 2:55
# "Spin Me Round" – 5:15

Personnel

* Bryan Ferry – vocals, keyboards
* Andy Mackay – oboe, saxophone
* Phil Manzanera – electric guitar
* Paul Thompson – drums

Additional personnel

* Paul Carrack – keyboards
* Rick Marotta – drums
* Alan Spenner – bass
* Richard Tee – piano
* Gary Tibbs – bass

Technical personnel

* Rhett Davies – recording engineer
* Jimmy Douglass – engineer
* Phill Brown – engineer
* Randy Mason – engineer

Release History

On the original vinyl release, Side One was labled "East Side" and Side Two was labeled "West Side".

The first CD issue substituted the single remixes of "Angel Eyes" (3:06) and "Dance Away" (3:48) for the original versions. The remastered (1999) version restored "Angel Eyes" to its album mix but retained the "Dance Away" remix, which was made available in compact disc only on 1995's Thrill of It All four-disc compilation.

Charts

Album

Notes