Ladytron - Live

"Ladytron" depicts a love affair between Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry and a female robot, with Ferry taking on the role of a seductive Casanova: Lady if you want to find a lover Then you look no further For I'm gonna be your only The "tron" part of the song title is also said to be a play on "Mellotron," the electromechanical instrument heard throughout "Ladytron."

This song begins with an eerie, barren stretch of instrumental music. Synthesizer player Brian Eno and saxophonist Andy Mackay came up with this section after Ferry requested an introduction that sounded like the moon. Ferry explained to NME: "'Ladytron' is a sort of sci-fi lunar landscape with the oboe playing what I call 'The Haunted Landscape Theme' before I come in singing like a cowboy with castanets."

Roxy Music made their television debut performing this song on BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test on June 28, 1972. Before the performance, the show's presenter, "Whispering Bob" Harris, disparagingly referred to the band as "a triumph of style over substance." Despite this slight, the performance is now considered one of the best in the history of The Old Grey Whistle Test.