Roxy Music DVD features the band in flesh and blood

On February 5, Roxy Music fans in the U.S. will have the ability to once again view (for their pleasure, of course) performances by the English art-rock band.

Roxy Music: The Thrill of It All - A Visual History 1972-1982 will be released stateside that day, and will feature live performances, promotional music videos, television appearances and more on a double-disc DVD. Disc one of the set spans the years 1972-1976, and the second skips three years into the future, covering 1979-1982.

Although it's likely that 1977 and 1978 were omitted because Roxy Music was on an extended hiatus, one might posit another theory: that Ferry just isn't comfortable reliving 1977, otherwise known as the year the world turned on the band's frontman.

That was the year that Ferry was jilted by his one-time fiancee, supermodel Jerry Hall, in favor of her future husband, Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger (surely a traumatic event at the time, but one that thankfully prevented the world from being subjected to the awful, awful name Hall would have married into: Jerry Ferry).

It was also the year that many point to as the birth of the punk movement in New York and London, a movement that Ferry was not only not welcomed into, but one that he was explicitly rejected by when Malcolm McLaren (former manager of the Sex Pistols and later a top ten recording artist in the U.K.) designed his first t-shirt.

McLaren described the shirt in the book Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, stating, "To me the establishment's notion of bad needed to be redefined. And the notion of good meant to me things that I felt absolutely needed to be destroyed. At the beginning of the seventies when I had left art school, that meant to me Bryan Ferry... The first T-shirt I designed was purely about trying to determine...a list of either 'good' names or 'bad' names..."

These two events, along with the solidification of former bandmate Brian Eno's position as the new king of the avant-garde, propelled Ferry to reform Roxy Music with a slightly modified line-up in 1979, where the DVD set picks back up.

From this new line-up came the top 10 single "More Than This," from the group's final album Avalon. The upcoming DVD features the music video for the single, as well as the video of the band's cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy," recorded as a tribute in response to his 1981 death.

Also included on the disc are the band's first ever filmed performance at the Royal College of Art in 1972, Brian Eno's last on-camera performance as a member of Roxy Music, and music videos of "Same Old Scene," "Angel Eyes," "Trash," and "Avalon," featuring Ferry's disarming, '50s-style looks.

What all of this amounts to is that you won't need much more than this (zing!) to fulfill your yearning for Roxy Music.

For those rabid fans who just can't wait, check out Roxy Music's official YouTube page here, and the video below.

Roxy Music: The Thrill of It All - A Visual History 1972-1982:

Disc one, 1972-1976:
1. Re-Make/Re-Model (6/72 @ Royal College of Art)
2. Ladytron (6/20/72 @ Old Grey Whistle Test)
3. Virginia Plain (8/24/72 @ Top of the Pops)
4. For Your Pleasure (11/25/72 @ Full House)
5. Do the Strand (4/3/73 @ Old Grey Whistle Test)
6. In Every Dream Home a Heartache (4/3/73 @ Old Grey Whistle Test)
7. Editions of You [live] (4/29/73 @ Golden Rose Festival)
8. Pyjamarama (1/23/74 @ Musikladen)
9. Amazona (1/23/74 @ Musikladen)
10. Psalm (1/23/74 @ Musikladen)
11. All I Want Is You (10/04/74 @ Top of the Pops)
12. Both Ends Burning (10/75 @ Empire Pool, Wembley)
13. Love Is the Drug (10/9/75 @ Supersonic)
14. The Thrill of It All [live] (1/23/76 @ Stockholm, Sweden)
15. Mother of Pearl [live] (1/23/76 @ Stockholm, Sweden)
16. Nightingale [live] (1/23/76 @ Stockholm, Sweden)
17. Out of the Blue [live] (1/23/76 @ Stockholm, Sweden)
18. Street Life [live] (1/23/76 @ Stockholm, Sweden)

Disc two, 1979-1982:
1. Dance Away (4/16/79 @ ABBA in Switzerland)
2. Manifesto [live] (5/-7/79 @ Manchester Apollo)
3. A Song for Europe [live] (5/-7/79 @ Manchester Apollo)
4. Still Falls the Rain [live] (5/-7/79 @ Manchester Apollo)
5. Ain't That So [live] (5/-7/79 @ Manchester Apollo)
6. Angel Eyes (8/79 - promo video)
7. Trash (1979 - promo video)
8. Over You (5/15/80 - Top of the Pops)
9. Oh Yeah! (On the Radio) (8/7/80 @ Top of the Pops)
10. Same Old Scene (11/80 - promo video)
11. Rain, Rain, Rain (12/19/80 @ Rockpop in Concert)
12. Flesh And Blood (12/19/80 @ Rockpop in Concert)
13. Jealous Guy (2/81 @ promo video)
14. The Main Thing [live] (8/27/82 @ Frejus, France)
15. While My Heart Is Still Beating [live] (8/27/82 @ Frejus, France)
16. Avalon [live] (8/27/82 @ Frejus, France)
17. My Only Love [live] (8/27/82 @ Frejus, France)
18. More Than This (4/82 - promo video)
19. Avalon (6/82 @ promo video)
20. The Main Thing [bonus track] (82 - promo video)