UFO shot across the '70s night sky, all flashing lights and roaring engines, streaking through Japan and Germany (where they abducted 18-year old SCORPIONS guitarist Michael Schenker) before descending on the U.K. and eventually American shores with a series of brilliant hard rock singles, including "Lights Out", "Too Hot To Handle", "Doctor Doctor", "Only You Can Rock Me" and many more now ubiquitous radio staples. Though Schenker would depart in 1978, the rest of the band, including founding members vocalist Phil Mogg, bassist Pete Way and drummer Andy Parker, alongside lead guitarist Paul Chapman, retooled their spaceship and carried on into the early '80s dropping such influential classics as "No Place To Run", "The Wild, The Willing & The Innocent" and "Mechanix". Now comes "Live Sightings", a magnificent four-CD box set featuring vintage live performances from the early '80s that finds Mogg and Co. blasting through highlights from those three crucial records such as "No Place To Run", "Lonely Heart" and "We Belong To The Night", and seamlessly blending them in with the group's more well-known spawn. Boasting four CDs, each in its own mini jacket with printed inner sleeve, this extraordinary box set — due on February 5 via Cleopatra Records — also features a lavish 12"x12" 16-page booklet with full color photos and extensive liner notes plus two carefully duplicated printings of vintage tour programs. There's even a special bonus live LP from 1972 of the only known recordings of guitarist Larry Wallis (PINK FAIRIES, MOTÖRHEAD). Fans of UFO and early hard rock will not want to miss this incredible piece of music history. Track listing: Disc 1: Chicago 1980 01. Lettin' Go 02. Young Blood 03. No Place to Run 04. Cherry 05. Only You Can Rock Me 06. Love to Love 07. Mystery Train 08. Doctor Doctor 09. Too Hot to Handle 10. Lights Out 11. Rock Bottom 12. Shoot Shoot Disc 2: Chicago 1981 01. The Wild, The Willing & The Innocent 02. Only You Can Rock Me 03. Long Gone 04. Lonely Heart 05. Cherry 06. No Place to Run 07. Love to Love 08. Making Moves 09. Mystery Train 10. Too Hot to Handle 11. Lights Out 12. Rock Bottom 13. Doctor Doctor Disc 3: St Louis 1982 01. We Belong to the Night 02. Let It Rain 03. Long Gone 04. No Place to Run 05. The Wild, The Willing & The Innocent 06. Only You Can Rock Me 07. Terri 08. Making Moves 09. Doing It All For You 10. Too Hot To Handle 11. Lights Out 12. Mystery Train Disc 4: Cleveland 1982 01. We Belong To The Night 02. Let It Rain 03. Long Gone 04. The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent 05. Only You Can Rock Me 06. Terri 07. Doing It All For You 08. Too Hot to Handle 09. Lights Out LP 1: Early Flight - 1972 Side A 01. Silver Bird 02. Galactic Love 03. C'mon Everybody 04. Boogie For George Side B 01. Back In The USA 02. Mean Woman Blues 03. Stop Breakin' Down Blues 04. Johnny B. Goode
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