Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera shares stories from the Cuban Revolution to stardom

In 1971, guitarist Phil Manzanera was a 20-year-old rock guitarist without a band. Then, a friend showed him an ad in Melody Maker magazine for a band that needed someone just like him.

“The Perfect Guitarist for Avant-Rock Group,” the ad read. “Original, creative, adaptable, melodic, fast, slow, elegant, witty, scary, stable, tricky.”

Call Roxy, it finished, and Manazanera did just that.

• Guitarist Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music comes to Southern California a pair of...