When Roxy Music released Avalon in 1982, it landed with a sense of arrival rather than conclusion. Polished, restrained, and emotionally elusive, the album crystallized the refined aesthetic Bryan Ferry had been inching toward for a decade. Not long after, Roxy Music quietly disbanded. There was no formal announcement, no farewell tour. Ferry didn’t explain. Instead, he moved forward, fully inhabiting the sound he had helped invent.
What thoughts have you on John Mayer, the musician-esteemed guitarist, singer, and songwriter John Mayer? Sans the sordid details of TMZ-publicized romantic breakups and Narcissistic public tirades, I make an effort to discuss the musician Mayer.
When Dua Lipa was in primary school, she bombed an audition for the choir. “My voice is so low that sometimes when I try to do high notes, nothing but air comes out,” she says. That didn’t deter her from pursuing a music career: At age 15, she moved by herself to London (where she grew up) from Kosovo (where her family had relocated a few years earlier) to attend theater school.