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Virginia Plain/Pjamarama Single Review

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Melody Maker, 15th October 1977

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Roxy Music: "Virginia Plain" / "Pyjamarama" (Polydor).

As the possibility of Roxy Music reuniting becomes slimmer and slimmer, Polydor have issued their first two A-sides back-to-back. The picture bag even has the first in the long line of centrefold sirens. All pink frills and pout. "Virginia Plain" withstands he temporal test especially well; Ferry's stylised quaver, Paul Thompson's juggernaut drumming, Eno's stuttering treatments. Noel Coward in a leopard-skin pill-box hat...with eye-liner?

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