The For Your Pleasure reissue arrives on 6 November 2026 via UMR/Virgin, bringing Roxy Music’s 1973 second studio album back across multiple formats: vinyl pressings, CD sets and a time-limited Blu-ray audio edition that collectors will need to act on well before the summer is out. According to Super Deluxe Edition, pre-orders for the Blu-ray close at midnight GMT on 27 August 2026, after which the window shuts permanently.
That Blu-ray is the headline discovery here. It carries over an hour of unreleased outtakes and Peel Sessions, material that has circulated only in rumour among devoted listeners for five decades. For an album whose studio ambience, those engineers in lab coats high above Oxford Street, already felt like a controlled experiment in sound, the prospect of hearing its raw components is genuinely arresting.
What the For Your Pleasure Reissue Contains
The vinyl options split into two configurations. The standard 2LP presses the original album alongside AIR Studios outtakes on 140g black vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve. A limited-edition variant takes the same programme and presses it to Blue Pearl vinyl, again in a gatefold.
On CD, buyers can choose between a 3CD and DVD set or a more compact 2CD package. The larger set is the more expansive document: it gathers the original album, singles and instrumentals alongside unheard songwriting demos, rehearsals and live sessions, and appends TV and live performances from 1972 to 1973. A 116-page book with new essays and rare photography completes the package. The 2CD edition is trimmed to the original album plus AIR Studios outtakes, singles and BBC sessions, presented in a hardcover digibook with a new essay and previously unseen images.
Taken together, the editions form a thorough archaeological survey of a record that, when it appeared, landed at number four on the UK Album Charts and was certified Gold. It was released through Island Records.
Brian Eno’s Departure and the Album’s Legacy
The album was the last to feature Brian Eno as a member of the band. As Apple Music notes, Eno would leave shortly after For Your Pleasure‘s release. The group at that point comprised Bryan Ferry, Eno, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson: a configuration that produced something denser and more architecturally strange than the debut, and one that would not be reassembled once Eno walked.
His departure makes the album something of an artefact of a very particular moment, a band in full creative combustion before the chemistry changed. The outtakes and Peel Sessions on the Blu-ray will inevitably be heard through that prism, as evidence of what the group was reaching for before the line-up fractured.
Bryan Ferry, speaking to The Guardian in 2022, reflected on where the record sits in the Roxy Music catalogue. Asked about his favourite LP by the band, he said: ‘The first album was interesting and obviously pointed to several different directions, but For Your Pleasure was a big album for me. We’d been on the road and were much more experienced and integrated. We recorded in Air Studios with engineers in lab coats, high above Oxford Street, with people running around below. It felt like the center of everything. The album just felt more mature: darker, with better singing.’
The image Ferry conjures, a band suspended above the city noise while manufacturing something cold and theatrical, maps directly onto what the record sounds like: detached, precise, and oddly glamorous in its austerity. Art rock has circled back to it repeatedly over the past fifty years, and the influence has not dimmed in proportion to the distance from 1973. If anything, the album’s blend of Ferry’s mannered romanticism with Eno’s disruptive textures feels more instructive now than it did when it was competing with chart concerns of a rather different character.
Pre-orders for the time-limited Blu-ray audio edition close at midnight GMT on 27 August 2026; the full reissue across all formats follows on 6 November 2026.
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