Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure Reissue 2026 Surfaces with 34 Unheard Recordings

The For Your Pleasure reissue 2026 lands on 6 November, and Roxy Music have marked the occasion by putting a live performance of ‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache,’ filmed for The Old Grey Whistle Test in April 1972, on YouTube. It is a good way to prime ears for what is, according to SuperDeluxeEdition, the first major Roxy reissue campaign since the band’s eponymous debut was re-released in 2017.

What the Old Grey Whistle Test Performance Tells Us

There is something clarifying about watching the band perform ‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache’ at that early stage. Bryan Ferry has described the song as being about a ‘guy who has everything but has nothing,’ and in a 2019 interview with Forbes, when asked to share entry points into his catalogue, he named it without hesitation: ‘In Every Dream A Heartache I’d always say that one.’ On television in 1972, with Brian Eno still in the group alongside Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson, you can hear exactly why. It sits at the precise point where English art rock stopped borrowing Americana and started inventing its own mythology.

NME once placed For Your Pleasure in their ‘500 Greatest Albums of All-Time’ list, calling it ‘the pinnacle of English art rock, mixing pop sensibilities with a brash experimental spirit, its songs about new dance crazes and inflatable doll lust attracting attention from devotees such as Morrissey.’ That assessment has not dated. The album peaked at No.4 on the UK Albums Chart on release and has since been certified Gold in the country.

For Your Pleasure Reissue 2026: What Is in the Box

The new edition, released via NME, arrives in several configurations. Vinyl buyers can choose between the classic 2LP pressing on 140g black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, which carries the original album and AIR Studios outtakes, or a limited-edition 2LP on Blue Pearl vinyl housed in the same gatefold format.

The centrepiece, though, is the 3CD + DVD Super Deluxe Edition. Its second disc presents 20 unheard songwriting sketches recorded at home by Ferry, alongside band rehearsals and studio outtakes, all newly mastered by John Webber at AIR Studios. The third disc fills out the picture with live sessions, singles and instrumentals, including 14 previously unheard recordings. Set against the original album on disc one, that amounts to a substantial body of material that collectors and serious listeners have never encountered before.

The entire album has been remastered by Bob Ludwig for this edition, which lends even the familiar tracks a reason to return. The Super Deluxe package is also accompanied by a 116-page book containing new essays, rare photography, and TV and live performances spanning 1972 to 1973.

For those who want a less involved entry, a 2CD set is available in a hardcover digibook. It pairs the original album with AIR Studios outtakes, singles and BBC sessions, and includes a new essay alongside previously unseen images. EMI is handling the release across all formats.

It is worth pausing on the historical weight of this particular album. For Your Pleasure was the last Roxy Music record to feature Brian Eno as a full member of the band. Whatever one thinks of the solo careers that followed on both sides, the group with Eno occupies a specific, unrepeatable moment in British music. The Super Deluxe Edition’s cache of demos and rehearsals will inevitably invite speculation about what that creative process looked like from the inside, before the paths diverged.

The Super Deluxe Edition of the For Your Pleasure reissue 2026 is released on 6 November, with the 14 previously unheard recordings on the third CD representing the most immediate reason for even well-stocked fans to revisit the package.