Jason Hanley of the Rock Hall With Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, May 2026<\/span><\/p> “I rang up Eno and said, ‘I know you don’t want to do this, but we’ll come and pick you up, make it easy and we’ll do some of your numbers too,'” he promised. Listening to Eno’s “great tracks and what he developed” as well as some of the “fantastic tracks” he’d done with Bryan Ferry within the Roxy singer’s solo work, he saw and realized there was an opportunity to add a further chapter that they shouldn’t pass on.<\/p>\n Luckily, Eno was open to the idea, though he’d later share that he had no interest in touring with the band. But the important thing was that he was willing to collaborate with his former bandmates again. “I got [longtime Roxy Music producer] Chris Thomas [to help produce and oversee the sessions] and all the [surviving] original members [as well].”<\/p>\n “Not the bass player, because [several] of them had died,” Manzanera adds. “[So]\u00a0I got Guy Pratt, who was my fellow player with Dave Gilmour<\/a> [in the Pink Floyd<\/a> legend’s solo band]. I went with [Roxy drummer] Paul [Thompson] and we picked up Eno. I dropped them at the door and said, ‘Okay, you go in, I’ll just go through the car park.'”<\/p>\n “We did some recording and had a break, [so] we went to the coffee shop. Eno said, ‘It’s incredible how everybody has reverted to exactly the same type as they were when we were last all together.'” So he thought, ‘I can’t do this.'”<\/p>\n In his telling, that’s one layer of what brought everything to an end.\u00a0\u00a0“I have the whole bunch of tracks on my laptop,” he shared with the Rock Hall audience. “But it wasn’t any good. So that’s why no one will ever hear it. So don’t [expect for the music to come out]. Thank God, we didn’t finish it.”<\/p>\n “That’s interesting. In other words, for each of you, it didn’t seem like there was anything new that was going to come out of it?,” Hanley asked Manzanera, who joined the Rock Hall ranks when Roxy Music were inducted in 2019.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Roxy Music Inducted Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a><\/p>\n “No, sometimes there’s magic and sometimes there isn’t. You’ve got to recognize that and just move on, do something else,” he confirmed.<\/p>\n Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music at the Rock Hall in May 2026<\/span><\/p> He’s been quite busy. The songwriter and producer is currently in the midst of a tour celebrating his memoir, Revolucion to Roxy<\/a><\/em>, which details his long career from his early days growing up to the Roxy era and beyond.<\/p>\n The latest leg of the trek launched in February with events in Los Angeles, Palm Springs and San Francisco. The current dates, in addition to the Cleveland appearance, will feature three more stops in Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis. It’s an engaging evening of “words and music,” as the events are being billed, with a number of surprises throughout the night.<\/p>\n In Cleveland, Manzanera opened the night by loaning his famous bug-eyed wraparound sunglasses to the Rock Hall, designed by fashion legend Antony Price. The iconic eyewear will be on display in the near future along with two jackets he also brought out — including one fans will recognize from the inside cover of Roxy’s For Your Pleasure<\/em> album.<\/p>\n Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music’s Rock Hall Jacket Donations 2026<\/span><\/p>How Brian Eno Got Involved<\/h3>\n
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