Phil Manzanera
Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1982
PICTURED ON THE first Roxy Music album with bizarre fly-glasses, long hair and unkempt beard, Phil Manzanera looked like left-field weirdness incarnate. That image was borne out by the noises on the record, amateurish first steps toward redefining the limits of rock music.
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