Roxy Music: Country Life (Atlantic)
Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, January 1975
YULETIDE LAST, energy starved Britons accustomed to tacky displays of teen ostentation were wished a "Ferry Merry Christmas," as Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music's ubermensch, unveiled a definitely anti-glitter (if distinctly glamourous) dapperness.
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