Roxy Music | Both Ends Burning | Live at Wembley | 18 October 1975

The Siren tour commenced on October 2nd 1975 and ran through Europe and the US until late March 1976. Andy MacKay: “(In the States) we played mainly theatres which suited us. In the U.K. we were playing arenas, but the audience were great in both”. Roxy’s Siren album was released on October 31st, 1975, therefore on many of the early shows of the tour, including all the UK dates, the audience had not heard the new material. Despite that, Roxy played most of the new album, even starting the set with new songs Sentimental Fool and Love is the Drug. In the Sounds review of the Glasgow show, 18th October, John Inghan wrote: “Ferry looking like an AWOL GI”. On the Siren tour Ferry had introduced a new aesthetic. He wore a khaki military style uniform throughout, apparently inspired by Elvis Presley’s uniform in the movie, “GI Blues”. Looking at shots of Presley in the movie, it seems almost certain that is so. Even down to the detail of the military emblem on the left shoulder of Presley’s uniform -