“In Every Dream Home A Heartache” by Roxy Music

Bryan Ferry wrote "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" for For Your Pleasure, Roxy Music's second album, in 1973, and it's a proper chiller: a sinister monologue that sneers at the emptiness of luxury living while doubling as a valentine to an inflatable doll. Chris Thomas produced it with the band.

The music circles a four-bar chord pattern steered by a Farfisa played like a cinema organ, then, once the words run out, breaks into a long instrumental climax with Phil Manzanera taking the lead on guitar. On the original LP it closed side one and seemed to vanish into the run-out groove, only to come back swimming in phase shifting. They played it on The Old Grey Whistle Test, kept it in their live sets and put it on the live albums Viva! and Concerto.

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