Artist Watch:Roxy Music

Back in the 70s music era Bryan Ferry formed a group, that in one way or another is still going today. The group was called Roxy Music. Bryan the main writer and lead singer, he was joined in the band by Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay who joined in 1971, Paul Thompson who also joined in 1971 after working with John Miles. Brian Eno  who was with the group 1971 to 1973, Brian left the group after constant arguments with Bryan Ferry, and worked in the 1970s with Genesis and David Bowie. Graham Simpson was the other member for awhile.

Brian was replaced in 1973 by Eddie Jobson, who in the 1979s also worked for Jethro Tull and Frank Zappa.

In Memory Joe Sample of Crusaders

Joe Sample of the Crusaders died in September 2013. He founded a group called the Jazz Crusaders that became the Crusaders.

In 1979 the group had a huge hit with Street Life featuring Randy Crawford.

• Crusaders pianist Joe Sample wrote this with the lyricist Will Jennings, who told us: "The lyric, all that came right off of Hollywood Boulevard. It's also been used in a lot of rap songs, some samples, they always do the chorus."
• An inspiration for Sample was the beginner's ski slope at Mammoth Mountain in California. In a Reuters interview, Sample said, "I saw people falling, running into each other... it was absolute chaos. It looked like a boulevard of madness. And I said, 'That's what street life is."'