i had seen roxy music a few months before we became chic and we were called the big apple band. — i think it was called the roxy theater or the roxy playhouse or the roxy club or something. i remember that moment — it was amazing to me. i called it a totally immersive artistic experience in music. i had never seen that — the name of the club matching the name of the band, and then the audience looked very chic, like the performers. typically, when i was in rock'n‘roll bands, whatever we wore that morning is what we wore on stage that night. so i never saw a band get dressed up to do a show, except r&b groups. so it was really interesting to see this in rock'n'roll, and the effect that it had on me. so, you know... you never really needed to be the star, yourself? we actually set out to have our music be the star, because we didn't feel like stars. see, if you look at roxy music, bryan ferry really is a star — he's a suave, debonair, handsome guy. bernard and i just looked at ourselves as workhorses. wejust worked, worked, worked. so our concept was, "what if we made the music an