When we began on this project, the idea was that it would culminate with the recording and release of a new Roxy Music album, the first in 24 years. We completed eighty percent of the film in telling the back-story of the group, and interviewed all the main protagonists, as well as a number of musicians who had been influenced by the various changes in line up and musical styles that had been the Roxy trademark.
We waited six months to be invited into the studio to film the band recording what was hoped would become the new album. We then discovered that Bryan Ferry had abandoned the idea of writing a Roxy Music album, and instead decided to record an album of Bob Dylan songs. A new Roxy Music album has still not arrived eight years after we finished this documentary. In this clip from the film we discussed how following a hiatus of two years from 1976 to 1978 the group returned with the Manifesto Album. This album once again saw the group heading in a new musical direction; it was also during this period that they were recognised as being an influence on the burgeoning New Romantic Movement.