Roxy Music - Live At The Apollo

Starring: Roxy Music

RS: 3of 4 Stars

Live at the Apollo doesn't actually catch Bryan Ferry and Company uptown Saturday night in Harlem -- this gig is at the Apollo in London. Still, for a bunch of glam-rock survivors, Roxy Music do work up an impressively soulful sweat during this 2001 reunion show. Their twenty-song set finds a reconstituted Roxy sleekly remaking and remodeling past classics from "Virginia Plain" to "Avalon." The disc also includes a documentary about the tour that finally offers proof that Bryan Ferry can smile.

DAVID WILD
(July 16, 2003)