Editing Roxy Music (section)

===''Stranded'', ''Country Life'', ''Siren'', and solo projects (1973–1977)===
[[File:Brian Eno - TopPop 1974 12.png|thumb|left|Brian Eno in 1974, shortly after leaving Roxy Music]]

Soon after the tour to promote ''For Your Pleasure'' ended, Brian Eno left Roxy Music amidst increasing differences with Ferry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/phonr74a.html |title=Phonograph Record: Eno Music: The Roxy Rebellion |publisher=Music.hyperreal.org |date=1 June 1974 |access-date=20 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/eno%20left%20roxy%20music%20to%20do%20his%20laundry |title=Eno Left Roxy Music to do His Laundry |magazine=Contactmusic.com |access-date=22 July 2010}}</ref> He was replaced by 18-year-old multi-instrumentalist [[Eddie Jobson]], formerly of [[progressive rock]]ers [[Curved Air]], who played keyboards and electric violin. Although some fans lamented the loss of the experimental attitude and camp aesthetic that Eno had brought to the band, the classically trained Jobson was an accomplished musician. John Porter also ceased working with the band at this time. For the next three years, Roxy Music would undergo several more changes in bassist, with [[John Gustafson (musician)|John Gustafson]], [[Sal Maida]], [[John Wetton]] and [[Rick Wills]] all passing in and out of the band during this period.

[[File:Roxy Music - TopPop 1973 13.png|thumb|right|Roxy Music perform on ''[[TopPop]]'' in 1974. Left to right: Jobson, Manzanera (back), Ferry (front), Thompson, Maida, Mackay]]

''[[Rolling Stone]]'' referred to the band's next two albums, ''[[Stranded (album)|Stranded]]'' (1973) and ''[[Country Life (Roxy Music album)|Country Life]]'' (1974), as marking "the zenith of contemporary British [[art rock]]".<ref name="rollingstone"/> The songs on these albums also cemented Ferry's persona as the epitome of the suave, jaded Euro-sophisticate. Although this persona undoubtedly began as a deliberately ironic device, during the mid-1970s it seemed to merge with Ferry's real life, as the working-class miner's son from the north of [[England]] became an international rock star and an icon of male style.

On the first two Roxy Music albums, all songs were written solely by Bryan Ferry. Beginning with ''Stranded'', Mackay and Manzanera began to co-write some material. Gradually, their songwriting and musicianship became more integrated into the band's sound, although Ferry remained the dominant songwriter; throughout their career, all but one of Roxy Music's singles were written either wholly or jointly by Ferry (Manzanera, Mackay and Thompson did individually write a few of the band's B-sides). ''Stranded'' was released in November 1973, and produced the Top 10 single "[[Street Life (Roxy Music song)|Street Life]]".

[[File:Roxy_Music_band.jpg|thumb|left|Roxy Music performing in 1974]]

The fourth album, ''Country Life'', was released in 1974, and was the first Roxy Music album to enter the [[US]] Top 40 of the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], albeit at No.&nbsp;37. ''Country Life'' was met with widespread critical acclaim, with ''Rolling Stone'' referring to it "as if Ferry ran a cabaret for psychotics, featuring chanteurs in a state of shock".<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite magazine|title=Albums Reviews: Roxy Music -Country Life|magazine=Rolling Stone|first=Jim|last=Miller|date=27 February 1975|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/roxymusic/albums/album/123934/review/5943949/country_life|access-date=11 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415212253/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/roxymusic/albums/album/123934/review/5943949/country_life|archive-date=15 April 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> Roxy Music's fifth album ''[[Siren (Roxy Music album)|Siren]]'' (1975) contained their only US Top 40 hit on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], "[[Love Is the Drug]]", while Jobson received his only writing credit in Roxy Music on the song "She Sells", a co-write with Ferry. The album cover featured American model [[Jerry Hall]], who became Ferry's girlfriend and eventual fiancé before leaving him for [[Mick Jagger]] of [[the Rolling Stones]] in 1977.

After the concert tours in support of ''Siren'' in 1976, Roxy Music disbanded. Their live album ''[[Viva! (Roxy Music album)|Viva!]]'' was released in August 1976. In 1976, Manzanera reunited with Eno on the critically acclaimed one-off ''[[801 Live]]'' album.