Roxy Music: 'Love Is The Drug' in Bi-centennial Year!
Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, March 1976
ROXY MUSIC, once scorned here as the last frontier of glitter'n'glam, may now become the one group capable of closing the two gaps which have most prevented '70s rock from developing a format and flair of its own: namely, the once unbridgeable gulf between the British and American charts, and the even wider gap which has traditionally divided AM from FM radio.
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