My final 'Hobbits Garden' memory... 

On a reopening midweek night in early December we saw Genesis, with support from Roxy Music [see this image on my previous Revisited post]. 

I clearly remember the night, but detail is a bit 'patchy'. Given how Bryan Ferry was such a presence and main focus of the band, I don't recall him at all. David O'List (ex The Nice and pretty soon ex Roxy Music too) on guitar, is a vague memory, while the dominant recollection is that of DJ John Peel who was there, sitting just a short cross-legged distance away from us on the floor. He was championing Roxy Music at this time, long before they even had a record deal. A BBC 'Peel Session' recorded a month later gives a clue as to what they may have played that night, because I have no idea.

Versions of all nine tracks from their first album,* released in June 1972, were recorded by the BBC for the John Peel show so it's a fair assumption that the setlist, that night in December, was songs that ended up on that first LP. Listening today the whole album is very avant-garde, even by today's standards - the commercial and single success came about later on… 

So I've decided to jump forward a few years and play 'All I Want Is You' © 1974 > Eddie Jobson (ex Curved Air) is now on keyboards - Eno has gone, as too guitarist Phil Manzanera bug eyed glasses. But Mr 'Cool' Ferry is very much on show: 

 

* For those of you keen to sample the early Roxy Music here's a link to an 'Old Grey Whistle Test' performance of 'Ladytron' - broadcast just after the release of the record in 1972.