J.O'B. will do 
When I built the original site during 2000-2001 I wanted to focus on not just Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry's solo work but to give the other solo work equal billing and attention. At that time Roxy had stopped being a band for 17 -18 years with no sign of a reunion.
The only members to play on all 8 Roxy studio albums were Bryan, Phil and Andy. I had a huge interest in their solo work and had collected all the Phil and Andy solo work and their primary collaborations to same level as Bryan. I took pride in this site as being the only site to give their work equal attention. I created sections about their solo album/singles/songs etc just the same as I had for Roxy and Bryan's solo stuff. I did the same amount of research etc regarding the other musicians who work on Andy and Phil's albums as I did with Ferry's
I have huge admiration for Paul and his contribution to Roxy Music and also where he appears on Bryan, Phil and Andy's solo work. Paul like Andy and Phil has done some session work for other artists over the years but has not released any solo work. With this in mind there is no reportoire or recorded output to class as Paul's 'solo work'. The nearest I suppose could be the work he did with The Metaphors and that is already covered in the Andy Mackay section.
When deciding where to draw a line on the site on how deep to focus to the level of detail I have tried to do I stopped at Bryan, Phil and Andy's solo work as they had played on all 8 Roxy albums. I could have gone to the extreme and included for example all Rik Kenton's stuff (and everyone else in between) but he only played on one single from Roxy's entire career, so a line had to be drawn somewhere.
When re-building the site the last couple of years I decided to put a page in the main menu for Paul, Eno and Jobson to draw attention to and give recognition to the part they played in Roxy Music
(just) J.O'B. (please)
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