Review 1: - I'm grateful to Beate Ludwig for this personal review

I will not analyse or criticise every single song the band played today, there is simply no need to do that. Roxy Music in concert (and in general) is best to describe as an overall work of art. If there are the famous three things which are good, these are, deliberately chosen, Bach, Beethoven and Bryan Ferry - please trust me as someone coming from the classical music. I have always been waiting for someone who is Beethovens heir, but until this evening it did not came into my mind to extend the search to popular music.. Bryan Ferry - as a very sensitive person - has the gift to put deepest human feelings into a song and in a record as a whole. He is also able not only to pack up these feelings in the form of some of the most wonderful compositions/ melodies I have ever heard, but also to deliver in common with the band a performance whose perfection has no equal.
Moreover, the shows - this term nearly seems to be to "cheap" - concept is to present a complex affair, there are no interruptions in spite of the different tempi or styles of the songs. So you just dive into the mood and reappear after 2 hours of flight into another land, into the place of Roxy Music, far away from a so troubled real world, yet still engaged in real feelings. We all need to do this from time to time. And I have also regarded Roxy Music's music as mainly " for the brain" (well, I am German). I was wrong.
It is impossible to sit quietly on your seat, it is not possible to sit at all. The rhythms - adapted to the modern - were electrifying. The responsible musicians harmonizing so well, oh, everything seemed to match. God, Bryan Ferry running from one end of the stage to the other (then there are actually "Both ends burning") - I do not have to mention that he still looks incredibly marvellous (a heir of Dorian Gray, too ?) - Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay, as well as all the other members of the crew, playing, singing or whatsoever absolutely electrifying: to put the whole matter in a nutshell: it was too marvellous for words.
Then I talked to people about their opinion to the concert and to Roxy Music. So often I heard "Oh, I grew up with Roxy Music, it is a part of my life, it is great that they are back !" or " They have so much power and expressiveness, right with the first notes, I got a goose-flesh and I am still shivering", " Bryans voice is even better, clearer than in earlier times, he is the ultimate singer ". I met many young people, who saw Roxy Music for the first time (and would like to see them again), there even was a young man who took over Bryans look from the moustache-time. And the people came from all over the country in order to form a real good audience, a praise to them.
So what is left to say yet..It was an unforgettable evening and vicariously for surely everyone who likes Roxy Music: I hope very much, that this was not a farewell tour.

Review 2: - I'm grateful to Frank Jonas for this personal review
My girlfriend and I travelled 600 km to see Roxy in Munich 3 months before the concert in Dortmund. So we knew what was going to happen and we just could not wait to see it again. Our suspense reached its top with the intro South Downs and then the curtain with the big Roxy logo dropped. Re-make/Re-model, Streetlife and Ladytron sounded just like "then", vigorously and full-speed. Phil must like this part of the set especially...its amazing to see and hear what he does to/with his guitar!
Out of the blue: those who know the show cant wait to see Lucy step forward playing her brilliant solo. In every dreamhome a heartache is one of our favourite songs, it seems so important to shout and show the band just after the first tone that one knows this song in an instant. ... but you blew my mind! That would have been even more impressive with some stage-fireworks, but then again, thats not Roxy. Tara is ravishing, it is not just an extension of a wonderful melancholy song, its a resting place.
Wipe your eyes, its been 18 long years and were in the middle of an evening we will never forget...whats real and make-believe?... I think its during Both Ends Burning that the dancing girls appear for the first time. They are superb, but they also make us smile, because it looks so very much like the 70s and early 80s. No-one dances so nowadays, which is a pity. In Munich, Roxy did not play Avalon and Dance Away, which came as some surprise. Here in Dortmund they did so, therefore they omitted Mother of Pearl. Obviously you cant have it all!
Oh please guys, make a double live CD of your timeless material and bring out a video and DVD as well!!! What is there to say? We know the encores, we know that the crowd goes frantic all the time and we know that For your Pleasure closes the final curtain. It is such a wonderful and moving ending as they all take their bow one after the other. Bryan leaves first, then Phil, then Andy, a little later the Great Paul Thompson, Chris Spedding and all the others who form such a brilliant band. Its over, sad but true.
It was absolutely justified to hope for Roxys reunion all through the years and now weve been rewarded immensely. Thank you Roxy Music!