Roxy Music have unveiled a previously unreleased guitar and vocal demo of their 1973 hit single 'Pyjamarama'. Unheard for over 50 years, the skeletal recording captures frontman Bryan Ferry developing the song using an acoustic guitar in a remote Derbyshire cottage. Marking the very first time Ferry had written on a guitar, the fragile track features open-tuned chord progressions alongside improvised, scat-sung topline vocals.
The album marked their ambitious second act, expanding on their glam rock sound and spawning the breakthrough hit single ‘Virginia Plain’ and surpassing the commercial performance of its predecessor in the process.
With unheard studio recordings, songwriting sketches, rehearsals, outtakes, live sessions and rare unseen performances, the 2026 edition of ‘For Your Pleasure’ takes listeners back to its creation, and the central question of how to tackle the daunting second album.
“It was a good pressure. Realising, now there’s an audience to write for. An intelligent audience,” Bryan Ferry reflected. “I felt a responsibility for the work that I hadn’t for the first album, certainly with regard to the lyrics.
“There was a hunger in the whole band to do more: a very strong urge to get back into a recording studio and make a better record than the first one. Nick de Ville had a cottage in Derbyshire, and offered to let me have it for a few days. So I went up there with the sole purpose of writing songs.”
CD1 – ‘For Your Pleasure’
‘Do The Strand’
‘Beauty Queen’
‘Strictly Confidential’
‘Editions Of You’
‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache’
‘The Bogus Man’
‘Grey Lagoons’
‘For Your Pleasure’
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CD2 – Demos, Rehearsals & Studio Outtakes
‘Pyjamarama’ – guitar & vocal
‘Do The Strand’ – piano & vocal
‘Beauty Queen’ – tremolo piano
‘Beauty Queen’ – electric piano
‘Beauty Queen’ – piano & vocal
‘Strictly Confidential’ (segue into)
‘Editions Of You’ – electric piano
‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache’ – farfisa & guitar
‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache’ – tremolo guitar
‘For Your Pleasure’ – electric piano
‘Pyjamarama’ – Rehearsal 1973
‘Bogus Man’ – Rehearsal 1973
‘Grey Lagoons’ – 1971 Demo (Original title The Bogus Man Part 2)
‘Pyjamarama’ – AIR Studios outtake
‘Beauty Queen’ – AIR Studios outtake
‘Strictly Confidential’ – AIR Studios outtakes
‘Editions Of You’ – AIR Studios outtake
‘The Bogus Man’ – AIR Studios outtake
‘Grey Lagoons’ – AIR Studios outtake
‘For Your Pleasure’ – Eno tapes
CD3 – Live Sessions, Singles & Instrumentals
‘Grey Lagoons’ – BBC Paris Theatre (London) August 1972 (first live performance)
‘For Your Pleasure’ – Peel Sessions November 1972
‘Do The Strand’ – Peel Sessions March 1973
‘Editions Of You’ – Peel Sessions March 1973
‘Pyjamarama’ – Peel Sessions March 1973
