Spin Me Round

Roxy Music went through a lot of changes in the 70s, and by 1979, when Spin Me Round was written, there was a kind of emotional exhaustion to the songwriting (hence the reference to Avalon, repeated successful ideas). The music is much sparser than the early albums, and there are not so many instrumental lines playing off each other. Just plaintive sadness in every sound. Ferry might have been wishing for a time gone by. When songs were on turntables, spinning, when life was a glamorous whirl. Jerry Hall had left Ferry. He may have been expressing a longing for a pinnacle that has been reached and could not be recreated, even with spinning...