In Search of Eddie Riff is an album by British musician Andy Mackay, first released on Island Records in 1974.
The album was released during a brief hiatus from Roxy Music's recording schedule. Mackay later claimed that he intended for the album to showcase his different musical interests: "classical music, Motown, fifties rock and roll instrumentals, film music, electronic effects and partly for my wife Jane, who I had recently married, country and western.". The leadoff single was a jazz cover of "Ride of the Valkyries".
Reviews were mixed, and the Trouser Press Record Guide has described it as "merely a display of his technical abilities."
Later, after a single of "Wild Weekend" was released in 1975, the album was re-released with a different track listing (but with the same catalogue number), which was the version that was issued on all other vinyl reissues of the album. This was also the only version released in the US. Three songs were added to the new version (and one slightly renamed), and two songs removed. A CD version released in 2003 contains all the songs with the addition of three live rehearsal tracks.
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