Roxy Music have introduced that their 1975 single “Love Is The Drug” might be arriving as a 12” vinyl EP in honor of the monitor’s fiftieth anniversary. Set to be launched on December 12 through Virgin/UMR, the brand new launch is offered to pre-order now.
Now obtainable on 12” vinyl for the primary time, the “Love Is The Drug” fiftieth anniversary version contains the unique combine, Greg Wilson’s prolonged edit, Todd Terje’s “Disco Dub” model of the monitor, and the unique b-side to the discharge, “Sultanesque.”
“Love Is The Drug” was the primary single to be launched from Siren, Roxy Music’s celebrated fifth studio album. The monitor was an instantaneous hit, touchdown at No.2 on the UK Singles Chart on its launch. Moreover, it grew to become the band’s highest charting single in North America.
Talking about “Love Is The Drug,” Greg Wilson mentioned: “It wasn’t until 1976 that the 12″ single appeared as a commercial format, so ‘Love Is The Drug’ was only ever issued as a 7″. In editing this track I imagined how an extended 12″ might have sounded had the record been released a little bit later down the line. It was a massive floorfiller, just as popular in the clubs, if not more so, than the out and out Disco hit ‘Angel Eyes,’ four years on. As well as the more mainstream venues, it was a staple of the numerous Roxy/Bowie nights that sprung up in the latter half of the ’70s, paving the way for the influential Futurist movement.”
The band had an concept that they have been onto one thing highly effective with “Love Is The Drug” once they initially recorded it. Founding member Andy Mackay instructed The Quietus, “Like most hit singles, ‘Love Is The Drug’ kind of selected itself and always sounded like something special,” he remembered. “The band collectively and Chris [Thomas] got the snappier feel. Johnny Gustafson came up with the bass pattern and Paul [Thompson] got that great tight snare sound. Bryan pulled one of his alchemical stunts and sang an almost complete vocal line with fantastic lyrics to general amazement and applause in [London’s] AIR Studio No. 1 late one night.”
Order the fiftieth anniversary version of Roxy Music’s “Love Is The Drug” now.
