Avalon  by Roxy Music

In 1981, Bryan Ferry, along with his girlfriend Lucy Helmore - who would later become his wife - stayed at a house on the west coast of Ireland next to a lake. Helmore and this lake are depicted on the cover of Avalon, which was to be the eighth and final album of Roxy Music and was released in 1982.

Avalon was a highly sophisti-pop record and many music critics consider it to be the first album that defined this genre. In the following years, Bryan Ferry followed this musical style in many compositions of his solo albums. This is not a coincidence as Ferry participated in all the songs and compositions, while the involvement of Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera is limited. In the production of the album, we find Roxy Music and Rhett Davies. The title Avalon comes from the mythical island related to King Arthur, where the queen carries the dead body of her husband. Bryan Ferry considered this story to be the ultimate romantic story.

The album went platinum in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the USA, it initially stopped at No.53 on the Billboard, but reached 1,000,000 in copy sales after ten years.