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Marc Myers
Mar 02, 2019
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This week in
The Wall Street Journal, my "Anatomy of a Song" column looked at Roxy Music's "Love Is the Drug," released in 1975 (go here). I interviewed Bryan Ferry and Andy Mackay. The song is important because it had a new-wave art-rock feel several years before new wave movement began as a pop-punk offshoot. Roxy Music and the song was an influence o…

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