More Than This (Roxy Music song)  "More Than This" is a 1982 single by English rock band Roxy Music. It was released as the first single from their final album, "Avalon", and was the group's last Top 10 UK hit (peaking at #6). Although it only reached #102 (on "Billboard"'s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart) in the United States, it remains one of Roxy Music's best-known songs in America. The American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs released a successful cover version in 1997 which peaked at #25, and British singer Emmie released a dance cover version which reached #5 in the UK in January 1999. The cover of the single's release is the painting "Veronica Veronese", by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which was completed in 1872 with Alexa Wilding as the model. The song was written by the lead singer Bryan Ferry, who has stated in interviews that he began writing the songs for "Avalon" while on the western coast of Ireland, which he believes contributed to the dark melancholy of the album. "More than This" is somewhat unusual for a pop song in that Ferry's lead vocals end at 2:45 minutes, leaving the last 1:45 minutes as a synthesizer-driven instrumental outro.