Some imagined that by Avalon, Roxy Music had degenerated into non-ironic AOR. But the sounds on this, the biggest-selling album of their career, are as avant-garde as anything they’d ever done ...

Roxy Music, by contrast, still sounds intoxicatingly ... He arrived at his destination on 1982’s Avalon, the title evoking some timeless never-neverland of misty longings. Ironically it ...

That represented a third of the overall show, but it made sense that “Avalon” — Roxy Music’s best-received album in the U.S. — would get the lion’s share. And one can even wish there ...

performs the incredible songs of Roxy Music from 1972-1975: Virginia Plain, Pyjamarama, Street Life, All I Want is You and Love is the Drug to 1979-1982: Angel Eyes, Dance Away, Avalon ...