Roxy Music – Dance Away

Music video by Roxy Music performing Dance Away.

“Dance Away” – Single by Roxy Music from the album Manifesto
B-side: “Cry, Cry, Cry” (Europe)/”Trash 2″ (US, Canada, Japan)
Released on 13 April 1979.
Charted No.44 in US and No.2 in UK

“Dance Away” was originally written by Bryan Ferry for his 1977 solo album In Your Mind, but did not make the final track listing. It was then planned for inclusion on his 1978 album The Bride Stripped Bare, but again was not included. It was finally completed and released on Roxy Music’s Manifesto, the band’s first studio album in four years.

It’s been suggested Ferry wrote the song after his public humiliation at the hands of Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger. The Roxy Music frontman first met the American model after she appeared on the album cover for Siren (1975). They began a two-year relationship that ended when Hall left him for Jagger in late 1977.

The video for this song takes place in an unidentified auditorium and begins with Ferry singing alone in the dark, empty seating area. Once the chorus kicks in, the camera cuts to the rest of the band performing on stage. Finally, the clip concludes with Ferry walking across Barclay Road in London with his coat casually thrown over his shoulder.

The video was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the American filmmaker perhaps best known for directing the 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be.

© 1982 Virgin Records Limited