“Love Is the Drug” by Roxy Music is sleek, seductive, and impossibly cool — a song that turns desire into nightlife, romance into addiction, and the dance floor into a place of danger and glamour. Driven by a funky bassline, sharp rhythm, and Bryan Ferry’s smooth, detached vocal style, the track captures the feeling of chasing attraction through city lights, clubs, and late-night encounters. It is romantic, but not soft; stylish, but slightly sinister. Like much of Roxy Music’s best work, “Love Is the Drug” blends art-rock sophistication with pop pleasure, making love sound less like a fairy tale and more like a fashionable, irresistible obsession.
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PHOTO CREDIT:
Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music with backing singers Jacqui Sullivan (lt) and Doreen Chanter at the Montcalm Hotel in London, 31 Oct 75 🖤
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📸 Michael Putland