ROXY MUSIC
Stranded ISLAND, 1973
I was 16 when this came out and I’d lived a fairly sheltered life, so it felt like a very exotic record. It’s also a great collection of songs: “Song For Europe”, “Serenade” and “Mother Of Pearl”, which is one of my all-time favourites. There’s still a lingering sense of experimentation from the first two albums – Eno’s ghost is in there somewhere – but it’s a little more rocky, the production is a lot better. It was just a very exciting record. I saw them live in Brisbane in 1974, my first ever concert. There