{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Stranded | type = studio | artist = Roxy Music | cover = Roxy_Music-Stranded.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|1973|11|df=yes}} | recorded = September 1973 | venue = | studio = AIR (London) | genre = * Art rock<ref name="RS 2024">{{cite web|last1= Dolan|first1= Joe|last2= Martoccio|first2= Angie|first3= Rob|last3= Sheffield|title= The 74 Best Albums of 1974|website= Rolling Stone |date= November 20, 2024|url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-1974-1235138526/|quote=In their first four years as a band, Roxy Music went off on a tear that produced five of the Seventies' most influential art-rock albums.|access-date= November 30, 2024}}</ref> * progressive rock<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/thirteen-new-wave-album-classics |title=Thirteen New Wave Album Classics |website=AllMusic |access-date=May 14, 2023 |last=de Visé |first=Daniel}}</ref> | length = {{duration|m=41|s=06}} | label = * Island * Atco | producer = Chris Thomas | prev_title = For Your Pleasure | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = Country Life | next_year = 1974 | misc = {{Singles | name = Stranded | type = studio | single1 = Street Life | single1date = November 1973<ref name=strong07 /> }} }}
'''''Stranded''''' is the third studio album by the English rock band Roxy Music, released in 1973 by Island Records (it was released by Atco Records in the United States).<ref name=strong07>{{cite book|title=The Essential Rock Discography|last=Strong|first=Martin C.|author-link=Martin C. Strong|publisher=Canongate Books|location=Edinburgh|year=2006|isbn=1-84195-860-3|page=930}}</ref> ''Stranded'' was the first Roxy Music album on which Bryan Ferry was not the sole songwriter, with multi-instrumentalist Andy Mackay and guitarist Phil Manzanera also making songwriting contributions. It is also their first album with multi-instrumentalist Eddie Jobson, who replaced synthesizer player Brian Eno.
''Stranded'' reached number one on the UK albums chart. The track "Street Life" was released as a single and reached number 9 on the UK singles chart. In the US, ''Stranded'' charted at number 186.
==Cover art== The gatefold cover photograph was taken by Karl Stoecker and styled by Antony Price, and shows ''Playboy'' model Marilyn Cole. In an interview with the writer Tony Barrell in 2007, Cole recalled:
{{blockquote|It was at a tiny studio, somewhere off the Edgware Road in London. I'd never even heard of Roxy Music. I very soon understood that I was in safe hands, among some very talented people. There was a red dress hanging up, and I thought, 'Ooh, good, I'm going to get to wear a really nice dress'... whereupon, as I'm having my make-up done, Antony comes in and starts ripping the dress – a hole there, a slash there. I was thinking, 'Oh no.' They stuck me on this big log and explained I was supposed to be stranded in a jungle, and then they started spraying me; they sprayed my hair gold, and there was a whole mist coming over me and the dress was getting wet in all the right places.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tonybarrell.com/cover-stories/|title=Cover Stories|work=The Sunday Times|date=11 November 2007|access-date=6 September 2014|last=Barrell|first=Tony|author-link=Tony Barrell (journalist)}}</ref>}}
==Critical reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/stranded-mw0000201956|title=Stranded – Roxy Music|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=17 March 2010|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' | rev2score = B+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|chapter=R|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=R&bk=70|access-date=12 March 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1981|isbn=0-89919-026-X}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Overdose'' | rev3score = A+<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.tomhull.com/ocston/arch/rekord2.php|title=The Rekord Report: Second Card|magazine=Overdose|date=April 1975|access-date=26 June 2020|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|via=tomhull.com}}</ref> | rev4 = ''Pitchfork'' | rev4score = 9.2/10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16810-roxy-music-the-complete-studio-recordings-1972-1982/|title=Roxy Music: Roxy Music: Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972–1982|work=Pitchfork|date=13 August 2012|access-date=16 August 2012|last=Ewing|first=Tom}}</ref> | rev5 = ''Q'' | rev5score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Roxy Music: Stranded|magazine=Q|issue=156|date=September 1999|pages=122–23}}</ref> | rev6 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' | rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Roxy Music|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/705 705–06]}}</ref> | rev7 = ''Select'' | rev7score = 4/5<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Roxy Music: Roxy Music / For Your Pleasure / Stranded|magazine=Select|issue=112|date=October 1999}}</ref> | rev8 = ''Spin Alternative Record Guide'' | rev8score = 9/10<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Roxy Music|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor1-link=Eric Weisbard|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|publisher=Vintage Books|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8|pages=336–38}}</ref> }} Reviewing for ''Rolling Stone'' in 1974, Paul Gambaccini wrote: "Roxy Music can no longer be ignored by Americans. They may not achieve the commercial success they have in Britain, where ''Stranded'' reached Number One, but their artistic performance must be recognized. ''Stranded'' is an eloquent statement that there are still frontiers which American pop has not explored."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/stranded-19740523|title=Stranded|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=23 May 1974|access-date=17 March 2010|last=Gambaccini|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Gambaccini}}</ref>
Reviewing for ''Creem'' in 1974, Robert Christgau found Ferry to be an "ambitious" but "oblique" artist and quoted New York artist Sidney Tillim's 1969 essay "A Variety of Realisms"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tillim |first=Sidney |author-link=Sidney Tillim |date=1969 |title=A Variety of Realisms |url=https://www.artforum.com/features/a-variety-of-realisms-210771/ |journal=Artforum |volume=7 |issue=10 |pages=42-47}}</ref> to conclude his review of the album: "By moral in the context of art I mean a style which executes the deeper social and psychological function of form, as opposed to a particular aspect of vanity called ''taste''. Pop sensibility, pop consciousness, pop sentimentality have been invaluable in clarifying the provincialism and nostalgia that actually permeate a culture that has come to pride itself on sophistication. But they have not resulted in a new art simply because the requisite idealism has been lacking."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/crm7409.php|title=The Christgau Consumer Guide|magazine=Creem|date=September 1974|access-date=17 March 2010|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
In a positive retrospective review, AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote of the album: "Under the direction of Bryan Ferry, Roxy moved toward[s] relatively straightforward territory, adding greater layers of piano and heavy guitars. Even without the washes of Eno's synthesizers, Roxy's music remains unsettling on occasion, yet in this new incarnation, they favor more measured material."<ref name="allmusic"/>
Although it was the first Roxy Music album made without Brian Eno, Eno later described it as one of his personal favourite albums by the group.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bryanferry.com/stranded-history-tab/ |title = STRANDED – History Tab |website=Bryanferry.com| date=3 September 2013 }}</ref>
==Covers== Bass guitarist John Taylor, during his solo period after leaving Duran Duran in 1997, organized a Roxy Music tribute album called ''Dream Home Heartaches: Remaking/Remodeling Roxy Music'', which was released in 1999. On it, Ferry and Mackay's "A Song for Europe" was covered by Dave Gahan and "Street Life" was performed by Phantom 5 (a.k.a. Gerry Laffy and Simon Laffy).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://trusttheprocess.com:80/TTPownit.music.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822031241/http://www.trusttheprocess.com/TTPownit.music.html|url-status=dead|title=TTP Own It Music|archive-date=22 August 2006|website=Trusttheprocess.com|access-date=19 November 2025}}</ref>
"Amazona" was covered by Morrissey on his 2026 album ''Make-Up Is a Lie''.
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = Bryan Ferry, except where noted | headline = Side one | title1 = Street Life | length1 = 3:29 | title2 = Just Like You | length2 = 3:36 | title3 = Amazona | writer3 = Ferry, Phil Manzanera | length3 = 4:16 | title4 = Psalm | length4 = 8:04 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | title1 = Serenade | length1 = 2:59 | title2 = A Song for Europe | writer2 = Ferry, Andy Mackay | length2 = 5:46 | title3 = Mother of Pearl | length3 = 6:52 | title4 = Sunset | length4 = 6:04 }}
==Personnel== '''Roxy Music''' *Bryan Ferry – vocals, piano, electric piano, harmonica, cover concept *Andy Mackay (as Andrew Mackay) – oboe, saxophone, treatments *Phil Manzanera – guitar, treatments *Paul Thompson – drums, timpani *Eddie Jobson – synthesizers, keyboards, electric violin
'''Additional personnel''' *John Gustafson – bass guitar except on "Street Life"<ref name="auto">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/the-making-of-roxy-music-s-street-life-28320|title=The Making Of… Roxy Music's 'Street Life'|magazine=Uncut|date=14 December 2012|access-date=11 October 2016|last=Cavanagh|first=David|author-link=David Cavanagh}}</ref> *Chris Laurence – string bass on "Sunset" *London Welsh Male Voice Choir – chorus on "Psalm" <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/musicians_631.php|title=The London Welsh Male Voice Choir|website=Viva Roxy Music|access-date=26 June 2024}}</ref> *Chris Thomas – production, uncredited bass guitar on "Street Life"<ref name="auto"/> *John Punter – engineer *Nicolas de Ville – cover design *Karl Stoecker – photography
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" ! scope="col"| Chart (1973–1975) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|edition=illustrated|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref> |style="text-align:center;"| 33 |- ! scope="row"| Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)<ref name=FINI>{{cite book|last=Pennanen|first=Timo|title=Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972|edition=1st|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|location=Helsinki|year=2006|isbn=978-951-1-21053-5 | language= fi}}</ref> | align="center"| 28 |- {{Album chart|Germany|39|id=12496|artist=Roxy Music|album=Stranded|rowheader=true|access-date=September 5, 2024}} |- {{Album chart|New Zealand|37|artist=Roxy Music|album=Stranded|rowheader=true|access-date=September 5, 2024}} |- {{Album chart|Norway|14|artist=Roxy Music|album=Stranded|rowheader=true|access-date=September 5, 2024}} |- {{Album chart|UK2|1|date=19731202|rowheader=true|access-date=8 September 5, 2024}} |- {{Album chart|Billboard200|186|artist=Roxy Music|rowheader=true|access-date=September 5, 2024}} |}
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" ! scope="col"| Chart (2022) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{Album chart|Scotland|88|date=20220520|rowheader=true|access-date=8 September 5, 2024}} |}
==Certifications== {{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|title=Stranded|artist=Roxy Music|type=album|relyear=1973|certyear=1974|award=Gold|id=6312-1932-2|access-date=8 October 2020}} {{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.superseventies.com/sproxymusic.html Super seventies review on the album]
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