Graeme Thomson

Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on Castro, Kanye, his spook dad and the two Bri/yans

The guitarist discusses his Forrest Gump-like memoir: 'People have said that it reads more like a 17th-century novel'

‘How lucky are we as musicians? We wrote some song 50 years ago in ten minutes and people are still listening’: Phil Manzanera in 1972. Credit: Brian Cooke / Redferns

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