Roxy Music Vinyl Return
A collectible Roxy Music live album, Viva!, is being reissued as a Record Store Day exclusive and limited to just 4,439 copies worldwide, with the release hitting U.S. indie shops first. (ad-hoc-news.de) That kind of strict run makes it the sort of pressing collectors and vintage‑inspired stylists will chase this weekend. (ad-hoc-news.de)
A 50-year-old live album is about to become a Saturday-morning sprint item: Record Store Day 2026 is on April 18, and Roxy Music’s *Viva!* is on the official list for indie shops. Record Store Day works like a one-day treasure hunt, not a normal online drop: the organization says the releases start at participating brick-and-mortar stores on Saturday, April 18, and there are no pre-orders through the main site. That detail changes how people buy it. Record Store Day says each store chooses its own titles and quantities, so even an official release can be missing from one shop and stacked at another a few miles away. *Viva!* is not a random catalog title. Roxy Music’s own site says the album first came out in 1976 and stitched together performances recorded between 1973 and 1975, turning three different concerts into one live record. Those three concerts came from Glasgow Apollo, Newcastle City Hall, and Wembley Empire Pool, which means the album captures the band across several years instead of one single night. The track list is basically a compact tour through early Roxy Music. The official album page names songs including “Pyjamarama,” “Both Ends Burning,” “If There Is Something,” “In Every Dream Home A Heartache,” and “Do the Strand.” Roxy Music’s site makes a stronger claim than most bands do about a live album: it says *Viva!* became “as essential” as the studio records, and that some listeners treat these versions as the definitive ones. The bigger machine behind this is huge. Record Store Day says the event began in 2007 as an idea from independent record store owners and employees, and the first one was held on April 19, 2008. (recordstoreday.com/) That history explains why a Roxy Music live reissue lands here instead of on a regular Friday release calendar. Record Store Day is built to push people into local shops first, then let leftover copies move online after the event through stores that choose to do it. So the story is not just that *Viva!* is back on vinyl. It is that a 1976 album made from 1973, 1974, and 1975 performances is being turned into a one-day indie-store chase on April 18, 2026, exactly the kind of release Record Store Day was designed to create.
