Originally Posted by jetengine

You have listened to the radio, visited the record stores, and watched the music channels over the past 30 years, have you not...? The period from roughly '73 through '87 is virtually owned by Roxy Music, on both sides of the Atlantic. Their direct influence can be heard and seen in everything from glam to prog to punk to disco to new wave to no wave to goth to new romantic to techno to hair metal. And no, I'm not some major Roxy Music fan trying to build a case for them as 'greatest band of all time' or what-have-you, just telling it objectively like it is.