Roxy Music: Ultra Pulp Images On The Video-Cassette Of Your Mind
Jonh Ingham, NME, 28 April 1973
THE FIRST COSMIC rock law of the seventies is this: "Everybody is a star". To which the answer is: "So what?". Roxy Music, undeniably, have formulated the best "so what?" around. And I suspect that a lot of the criticism of the band is motivated by jealousy.
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