ROXY MUSIC Country Life LP Vinyl Record Album RARE Pink Rim UK 33RPM Classic
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Description
Country Life is the fourth album by British rock band Roxy Music, released in 1974 and reaching No. 3 in the UK charts. It also made No. 37 in the United States, their first record to crack the Top 40 there. The album is considered by many critics to be among the band's most sophisticated and consistent.
Shot by Eric Boman, the cover features two scantily-clad models, Constanze Karoli either the sister or first cousin of Can's Michael Karoli and Eveline Grunwald. Bryan Ferry met them in Portugal and persuaded them to do the photo shoot as well as to help him with the words to the song "Bitter-Sweet". Although not namechecked for appearing on the cover, they are credited on the lyric sheet for their German translation work.
The cover image was considered controversial in some countries such as the United States, Spain, and the Netherlands, where it was censored for release. As a result, a later American LP release of Country Life (available during the years 1975-80) featured a different cover shot. Instead of Karoli and Grunwald posed in front of some trees, the reissue used a photo from the album's back cover that featured only the trees. Author Michael Ochs has described the result as the "most complete cover-up in rock history".
"The Thrill of It All"
"Three and Nine"
"All I Want Is You"
"Out of the Blue"
"If It Takes All Night"
"Bitter-Sweet"
"Triptych"
"Casanova"
"A Really Good Time"
"Prairie Rose"
The VINYL is in very good condition...name written on label
The FULLY LAMINATED SLEEVE is in very good condition.....sellotape along seams.
Catalogue Number - ILPS 9303
Matrix Numbers - A2 / B1
ISLAND LABEL (Pink Rim)
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