Yet another music break – this time with Roxy Music. This is a unique recoding of the original band with both Brian Ferry and Brian Eno, - plus the other skilled musicians. This song is also rather different than most pop rock songs at that time, - both in music and lyrics. In the first part, Ferry appears with reflecting hindsight in his sexy sulky way, - like some Hamlet. In part two, the musicians seem to express the frustrated agony to the conclusion. Eno do not appear often on stage, but is rather a studio synth guru. Here, in his earlier days, he appears like someone out of this world with most of ‘the science the Rocket Man does not understand’ (UU 2017.Okt.20). He even wears feathered wings, which also can symbolize relations to drugs and ‘blown up mind’.
Wikipedia writes:
- “Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter. Eno Brian Eno (synthesizer and ‘treatments’) was the co-founding member. The band took two breaks, reunited for a concert tour in 2001 and toured together until another break-up in 2011.
- “Roxy Music became a successful act in Europe and Australia during the 1970s with their debut album, Roxy Music. The band pioneered more musically sophisticated elements of glam rock while significantly influencing early English punk music and provided a model for many new wave acts while innovating elements of electronic composition. The group also distinguished their visual and musical sophistication through a preoccupation with glamorous fashions. Ferry and Eno had had influential solo careers. Eno became one of Britain's most significant record producers of the late 20th century. Rolling Stone ranked Roxy Music No. 98 on its ‘The Immortals – 100 The Greatest Artists of All Time’ list.”
- “The band's final studio album was Avalon became platinum-certified in the United States. In 2005, they began recording a ninth studio album. It would have been their first record since 1973 with Brian Eno, who wrote two songs for it and also played keyboards. However, Bryan Ferry eventually confirmed that material from these sessions would be released as a Ferry solo album Olympia, with Eno playing on ‘a couple of tracks’.”
The lyrics might ignite several associations about caged with ‘lifelong room service’ in privileged families. As indicated, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one. Associations are made in three recent blogs; UU 2017.mai.05 UU 2017.april.07 and UU 2016.feb.05.
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache + Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G56DaSAeZfM
https://www.azlyrics.com/.../ineverydreamhomeaheartache.html