Roxy Music - Virginia Plain (Live TOTP 1972)

[marcfedak]

It's a shame Brian Eno left the band, this was their best phase.

[iammontecristo]

The last time I was in Florence, I had a moment when I was all "Virginia Plain."

[Freespeech1776]

Good band, 72 was a great year. Forty years ago, hard to believe.

[cstakolich]

JAZZ HANDS



[Perfidia4ever]

Potevano diventare gli eredi dei Beatles nei primi anni 70..Personalità troppo debordanti, una direzione musicale intrisa di sfaccetature glam oltre ad una spruzzata di sperimentazione elettronica: il boss era Bryan e non certo Eno.Andy e Phil solo onesti gregari... restano i primi dischi autentici capolavori. More than this...

[greencho23]

thats what art school can do too some people, turn them into knobs(Ferry).

[dermotoblong]

ahh what a band. and to think of bryan ferry now...what a knob

[lewisner]

@dermotoblong Ferry is never a knob don't be so stupid.

[smcqueen123]

@dermotoblong Yes Ferry a knob after all his great works of art. Such a shame his body of work does not compare to @dermotoblong.

[dermotoblong]

@smcqueen123 exactly. glad you see that, and let the rest go right over your head

[babycabbages]

Orgasmatronic! I love how the milling dance crowd looks like a French and Saunders bit...

[pantherboy3231]

THe words are awesome.

[Albanorthstar]

This is walking on clouds to anyone approaching their 60's

[Kryp2ni8]

This was crossover in the 1972 . . yeah . .

[ofrichmahogany]

Little wink right at the end. Cool as fuck.

[hayden50]

ladies dancing like zombies

[purplepelican69]

With certain significant exceptions,the 70's was a pretty fallow period - sandwiched between the frantic creative 60's and the innovative electropop 80's. Roxy were certainly one big exception. This song is utter brilliance and provided a template for many subsequent imitators. Problem is,when you've written a song as good as this,how do you follow it? Ferry's later songs were certainly top drawer but I don't think they ever eclipsed this fabulous out-of-the-blue classic.

[donkiddick08]

@purplepelican69 eno leaving took a lot of their creativity away.

[ambereyes1972]

Gaty

[Voguespiration]

Eno's cute little grin at 1:05

[1megane98hp]

Καύλα!!! 

[szigetibp]

digo

[ocmarts]

I see why Eno quit. That shot with just his hands had to be the last straw. Too bad Brian didn't realize that they wouldn't be the same w/out Eno.

[Mongalz]

what a voice! love his way of singing, and of course the song too! :D

[haltomdustin1997]

kinda sounds like the card, but since this song predates the cars, i guess the cars sound like roxy music here.

[MrArrmills]

we are flying down to riooooo

[j4unumber1]

I love you Bryan!  :-)

[iammontecristo]

Me in Florence/ Pisa a few days ago: "Make me a deal/ And make it strait/ We've been here a long time." I was honestly on a mental rampage with "Virginia Plain" (well, same goes with "Red Red Wine" by UB40 and "The Sun Always Shines On TV" by a-ha).

[dicko195]

@801 liveable agreed, i never played any roxy music, but am more familiar with the cars, it's all good, i see where the cars sound evolved from now thanks.

[ikingofmen]

amazing how good this sounds nearly 40 years on,,,,,fresh as daisy ,,,,what a great track...what a performance,,,,were are the bands as inventive as this today,,,,the old duffers have all the best tunes

[throbule]

This song marks the very beginning of civilisation for me.

A totally magical treat for the eyes and ears.

And Brian Eno is god.

[MOBU78]

My God... I just can't believe "we" 've all grown so old... !!!

BUT YOU DID SHOW THE WAY INDEED !!! And "We're" still Alive and Kicking !!!

I might be about 60, I'm still a fan from the early hours and you are such an inspiration for "The New Ones", especially Lady Gaga, whom I do love and admire very much !!!

All the very best for so good and dear memories !!!

[TheKaiserchef]

"opening Lyrics"

Make me a tea and make it sweet,

No sign of Seal, i'l take it,

To Robert De Niro i'l show it,

I hope and pray he dont blow it.

lol

[robertluker1]

Top tune by one of the best bands the world has ever seen

[kevman1ification]

good example of early Roxy! Love Manzanera's shades.

[ColdOasisU2]

thier most ,,futuristic'' songs

[dicko195]

OMG sounds like Rick Ocaseks brother

[801liveable]

@dicko195 WHAT! rick ocasek, would not have been born if it wasn't for BRYAN FERRY..see, there would be no cars if it wasn't for ROXY MUSIC..

[markcbkk13]

@801liveable OMG! You must be silenced! You have come up with a reason why we must invent a time machine and go back and kill Bryan Ferry at birth ...

[801liveable]

@markcbkk13 so you don't like lousy imitators of BRYAN FERRY/ROXY MUSIC? really, what we should have done was abort RICK OCASEK..

[salgoudsamoht]

@801liveable i do not understand what an automotive engineer named ric ocasek has to do with Roxy Music, but I'll take your word for it.

[T55Kev]

I used to have Roxy painted on the back of my school haversack in the 70s.They were the coolest band. My Mother briefly "dated" Ferry in Washington, Tyne and Wear in the 60s.

Happy days.

[52pepo]

roxy music en su mejor momento

[reimaroli]

good song, good video

[chequeryard]

Do you remember when TOTP was the highlight of the week and this was one of the best- he's almost super cool 40 years on- love it

[MOBU78]

MY GOD... Such Memories... !!!

This Very Song was MY VERY FIRST HIT... I DID play IT OVER and OVER AGAIN... For months and even YEARS, vhen you think of it right by now... !!!

I'm old enough to remember evrything !!!

[IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Ferry's hair here looks very 1982.

[TheHairybaz]

so cool!!!!

[52pepo]

acapulco!!!:P



[GuyinCa]

Roxy will always rock, they did their own thing and went with it.

[oyvay3000]

Love those GROOVALICIOUS DANCERS! (the band obviously did not want to be upstaged).Yesterday's music can't be beat, however yesterday's dancing evokes mental discomfort.....

[DaveInBridport]

THE BIG TRAIN version of this with Kevin Eldon as BF is excellent!

[ralucagymnast]

Just incredible; I was 6 years old when this came out and I remember seeing this onTOTP and my mother tut-tutting because of the way they looked hahaha!!!

[DanRislor]

If you look above Paul Thompson's head at 1.50-2.00 you will see ex-Tory MP Anne Widdecombe making her first appearance on BBC TV, long before Strictly Come Dancing.

[m06een00]

@DanRislor Somehow I doubt that's Ann Widdecombe although she did look a bit like that when she was younger.

[TheExploitedable]

I love Brian Eno's compact set up it looks like a fucking laptop only in '72

[ochihiro]

ブライアン・イーノのいないroxyは、なんとやら。いま聴いて­も古くない。

[NonnyMus1]

I liked the part with the very awkward, glum dancing.

[hydorah]

I love the dancing of the audience... They look.. umm... labotomised

[fortheloveoftunes]

0:40 You could never tell that this was the seventies .-)

[EnglishChannel1]

Top of the Pops was quite primitive back then. Have a look at Bryan's piano, some old dusty thing found in a BBC cupboard somewhere. Every band that played on TOTP then, who needed a piano, would have been given that same knackered old piano to play.

[Feisty1967]

Bryan reminds me of a young Adam Ant there.

[zedster911]

Bryan should be an advert for COKE LOL

[zedster911]

Brian Eno... now an electronic musician of God status

[lewisner]

I bought this on 7" vinyl when it came out. It was like nothing I had ever heard before.

[JHMcSlainte]

I think Brian Eno was too unique and creative to be with Ferry. I would have liked Eno team up with Sparks, now together they would have made awesome music. Sparks on the other hand sound great as they are.

[emanuele6461]

I think only Ferry's vocal is live but it's still very close to the record. Amazing band in their heyday.

[aalynch30]

That oboe totally rocks majorly

[tilt61392]

im new to roxy music and im digging the sound but what exactly happened with brian eno and brian ferry?

[the13er]

@tilt61392

There were several problems. Eno also wrote songs but ferry didn`t pass them through. Eno actually couldn`t play keyboards then (organ, piano), so Ferry should play them and he didn`t like it -- ferry wanted to be straight frontman. Eno, the "non-musician" was heralded as some genius in the band by media and Ferry wasn`t -- so the tensions grew.

[j4unumber1]

The fact that he is aging so gracefully makes me wonder if he has seen a plastic surgeon because I am not able to tell. I mean...he makes a GREAT 65 year old! He looks so phenomenal that I am unable to tell whether or not he had plastic surgery done to his face. He looks VERY good for his age. You know with plastic surgery that there are times that you are able to tell that plastic surgery was done on a person? Well, with Bryan Ferry, I just don't know. Maybe he uses black hair color?

[cinnamonbrandylite]

@j4unumber1 - him and Michelle Pfeiffer - they're just Mother Nature's Favourites...

[Tigerlily21]

@cinnamonbrandylite yeah right, Michelle Pfeiffer got work done.

[j4unumber1]

Bryan Ferry still looks great!  He is aging very gracefully.

[missk102]

Fantastic! Bryan Ferry is so handsome! this is real music people!!

[gengw69]

just fuckin ace !!!!!!!!

[Yorkmackem]

Fucking fantastic.

[j4unumber1]

Excellent! Thanks for posting this video.

[fretboardyoda]

10 people voted.....against this????????

[jrmetmoi]

Baby Jane's in Ak-ah-pull-co we are fly-ing down to Reeee-ooooohhhhh

[rtms1988]

She's thinking: "It sucks! A LOT!!" #LOL 2:31 to 2:34 Well, I think maybe she changed her mind along the years... =DD

[Roggiedodgie]

@rtms1988 This was before my time, but you're right- she probably has told the story again and again..."That's me on that video"

[kuksugare88]

@rtms1988 Maybe she's just a teenager. Aren't all teenagers miserable? I'm in my late teens and I know I'm a miserable cunt. I'm sitting at home alone drinking horrible concoctions of other people's alcohol so that I may withstand the possible confrontation that awaits me.

[rtms1988]

Eno is my dearest one! =P

[ignoranttwat]

Eno>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Ferry

[danielibertine]

@ignoranttwat they're both amazing, now shut up.

[Songbirdlma1]

Wow a huge blast from the past ... all my friends and I knew every word to this song, and would act out Brian Ferry singing :)

[nellyyllen1]

why cant thay do song s like this eny more

[streetender1878]

coolest band of their time or any other

[docmat21]

eeerrrrr,,,,,,nobody was 'live' on TOTP. But bloody brilliant stuff anyway.....bless them.

[StanPomeray]

Only 7 years separated the brilliance of this from the crap banality of Dance Away......

[veda1954]

@StanPomeray No I disagree, they just evolved like all great bands do. Can't keep pumping the same old stuff out every year. Look at U2, over 4 decades and they still produce new material yet you get thise who say they sold out and the first album was the best. Then you look at the Stones, who never moved on. The old material will never die, if that's all you want to listen to, it's there.

[StanPomeray]

@veda1954  Well, you really must tell me that again...I'm running low on sedatives....

[jonnyevsky]

Brian Eno- Happy Birthday

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Brian Eno

[BootyFister]

Sounds perfect. I beg someone to top this!

[wunderbar0]

the b side for this,as stated,the numberer,was brilliant also.did you know that Andy Mackay wrote the music for the tv prog Rock Follies.And as the comment below says,anything with Brian Eno involved you know is going to be good.

[iammontecristo]

The intro and the first line, "Make me a deal, and make it strait"-- that is how I start work (attitude wise).

[sockington1]

great video - well it would be if it wasn't for the fuck,ing anniying adverts- yet agian

[clarkbell]

Wait a minute, I thought this song was based on Bryan Ferry's own painting from 1964. But I heard there was a box of Virginia Slims in it. I thought Virginia Slims started in 1968...

[wuidyen]

@clarkbell Brian Ferry: Rock God; Time Lord

[johnevamy]

A-star.

[TheMegaghost85]

brian eno is god

[metamaggot]

gotta love the clarinet...

[pegothaa]

look at Ferry's eyes like tiny little belt holes :')

[Mizzilovemusic]

First vid I ever saw on TOTP! What an intro to Pop culture!

[angelangel3000]

That's Brian Eno on synth kiddies. And this out does Bowie's Ziggy on so many levels which was also released in 72.

[byron2521]

@angelangel3000 Wow! I guess I never knew Eno was ever in Roxy. I didn't get into Eno until his solo stuff.

[drogheda1966]

@byron2521 If you're not too familiar with his early solo stuff, his first 4 pre-ambient albums starting with 'Here Come the Warm Jets' are indescribably good. Check with allmusic.com for complete list.

[jenwill11]

Fox hunting twat

[SolsburyHill22]

Ferry has such a unique voice,its like Charles Asnavor crossed with Fred Sneider of the B-52's..

[sallyfieldrequired]

ooh the glitterrrrrr...

[SteveResin]

Eno was so out there he was hardly in the same studio. awesome moog noodling.

[Woolymatt]

There can't be many other songs in music history that can match it's quirkiness. I love it. Oboe + Rock Band = sheer brilliance.

[iguanna41]

who needs Wikipedia when you have Ichnos71live :)

[pchazzzz]

For the longest time I thought the line "clutching at straws--can't make it" was "clutching at straws, half naked":

[ArgWoman]

BRIAN ENO es el mejor!

[MOBU78]

I was born in 1951, which means that my VERY FIRST BLOW were The Beatles, of course... And the second one : This SONG, which I kept on playing for months and years by now... Can you imagine such a band by now ?!?!

NOWAY !!!

Monique from Paris/France

[1955pigot]

This song was cool when i was 17 and still is now im 55 !

[CatFiain]

@1955pigot It was cool when I was 9!! :) I hope you got to see them live more than I did: I was born too late... (Dagnabits...) I remember seeing this performance on TOTP. Been hooked on Roxy and Ferry ever since.

[soiyamoto]

@CatFiain he touring again soon



[MetalMachineManiac]

@1955pigot this song was cool when i was minus 16...I envy your generation, to have listened to this music when it came out instead of the shite today!!!

[bored1980]

The video has quite an Elvis meets Rocky Horror approach.

[billybobjoebob1958]

What a great tune! I had almost forgotten all about it. Can't wait for this Friday's karaoke to resurrect it!

Hey, but ya' think Bryan's handsome? I don't know, maybe I am too. The thing is, I was mistaken for Mr. Ferry about 20 times in Sydney in the early 90's. He had an upcoming concert so people were more aware than usual, and apparently we have similar features because just about every bar I went to three or more people came running up to me all excited.

Great video!

[daisyrandone08]

you're so sheer, you're so chic, teenage rebel of the week !

[Feisty1967]

Bryan Ferry=gorgeous

[MrAntihollywood]

HAHAHAHAHA! BIG TRAIN!

[ulfgar26]

first punk song.

[MrAntihollywood]

@ulfgar26 What?????

[JDsmiffy1]

Sheer brilliance - this was the first single I ever bought. Roxy Music are up there with Joy Division, The Smiths and Wire in my humble opinion. Back then every 5 years or so a new band came along and changed everthing.

[alcockell]

@JDsmiffy1 Brian Eno INSPIRED all the bands you name!

[JDsmiffy1]

@alcockell - I know, I have all his albums. Here Come The Warm Jets is one of the best albums ever!

[JDA315]

eno is the cat's pajamas

[MrSKINFLICK]

"Rolling Stone magazine ranked Roxy Music #98 on its "100 The Greatest Artists of All Time" list."

I would rank them among the top 20 - 30 of all time bands - but Rolling Stone often had strange criteria......

[iammontecristo]

I admit: not only have I gone to work with this song playing in my head, when noone is looking, I do my own rendition of this song.

[droolindonnzos]

god yes ... wow!

[MnuityData]

Try BAN, FUNK IT, amazing new tune and video!!!

[mibeesaye]

Spoke to Bryan Ferry, Thursday, Jan 27th at Kelvingrove Art Gallery Glasgow.... he told me Richard Hamilton is alive and well.... Hamilton once said that Bryan was his greatest creation. Michael Flynn

[JackM2409]

@mibeesaye omg are u serious, bryan ferry was in glasgow no way, you lucky bastard

[mibeesaye]

@JackM2409 Jack, the guy was a gem , was with his son who backed Paul Thompson on the "For Your Pleasure" tour last week on drums. I have waited 40 years to meet such an enigmatic, yet troubled (in love) soul as Bryan Ferry. Both himself and ENO have inspired me as a painter.......as has Vincent and Caravaggio! !

[spooneye]

"We are flying down to Riohohohoh..." DOUBLE JAZZ HANDS FTW.

[dontferg]

@spooneye not to mention "boys will be boys will be boy-yoy-yoiz"

[djclapham1]

@spooneye virginia plain F# E A B F# B

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[Mitch7ell]

Man that chick is just pounding on those drums, wait...

[MrSKINFLICK]

@Mitch7ell: That´s why he was called "The great Paul Thompson" back then !

[litlgrey]

WORK IT !!

[mikele444]

masterpice.......

[vunderground1]

just been to see them in Newcastle, they've still got it in spades :D

[zedster911]

As a 15yo.. this was avante garde... and inspired my electronique musicale desires

[tairanman]

inventor of the mullet

[j4unumber1]

Why is their six dislikes of this for? Roxy Music is better than 99.9% of bands out there today anyhow!

[PdishmonkeyJJ]

love the breakdown! epic stuff :D

[quadralerium]

39 years ago, I can't believe it! My favorite band, have seen them several times. No one ever sounded like these guys. Or looked like them either.

[1004gerry]

Going to see them live live next week - can't wait!!

[Happy70s]

Hey, maramaku: see the "old man" in Slave To Love, Montreux 2004. Seems to me he is not still "wanting a quiet life"...

[cromagno]

Doesn't get any better than this.

[botfeeder69]

I'm no Travolta, but anyone noticed how bad the 'crowd' is at dancing? Eek!

[botfeeder69]

I'm no Tavolta, but anyone noticed how bad the 'crowd' is at dancing? Eek!

[fingersin]

"You're so shit, you're so chiccc"

[maramaku]

Probably just an old man wanting a quiet life now.

[newfuckingwave]

greatest single ever. androgynous ferry is my favorite of his incarnations

[pipesbillyok]

One of my favourite songs!!! Going to hear them in Glasgow.

[sirdoccy]

1:38 You're so shit!

[TheTrainRex]

1:05 Riff Raff??!?

[BobMillahhh]

@TheTrainRex Hahahahaha, no, but maybe his twin brother

[welshfilmbuff]

Thumbs up if you waved both your hands at 0:58

[zekedog111]

the people trying to dance are like "what the fk is next??" god bless roxy - named two pets after em

[iammontecristo]

@zekedog111 I may do the same and name one of my future pets Roxy. The one pet I do have is named Luca.

[zekedog111]

@iammontecristo Roxy Luca - My dog is now named bingo boy roxy shithead lol

[sudokuwkroku]

świetna jest ta piosenka! i ten obój też :)

[reekinopiss]

5 dislikes? must have stumbled on here by accident looking for a Katie Price song

[fannboygh]

@reekinopiss more like Brian Ferrys gorgeus suit.

[didistil75]

i primi roxy music facevano delle cose di ottimo gusto e gran classe

[burritolove1]

Girl @2:31 does not want to  be there.

[HopNPlop]

Did Brian invent the mullet?

[tdwon]

Ferry in make-up and abstruse lyrics, Eno with silver sparkly gloves on, and the drummer in a loincloth. Check.

[KeyboardRambo]

@tdwon The flute player has a ponytail and is wearing yellow tights with a shiny jacket. Check!

[mfrank91]

@KeyboardRambo it's an oboe.