Sunday, 1 February 2015

UFO: My Favourite Schenker-Year Tunes

Absolutely love the UFO albums from the mid-to-late 1970s with Michael Schenker ('Phenomenon'; 'Force It'; 'No Heavy Petting'; 'Lights Out'; and 'Obsession'), especially the 1979 double live album 'Strangers in the Night' which (alongside Rush's 'All the World's a Stage') still remains one of my two favourite live albums.

However, two of my favourite Schenker-year UFO tunes are not from 'Strangers in the Night' starting with 'Space Child' from 'Phenomenon', the first UFO album with Schenker from 1974:


Remember my old friend Bruno playing this to death on audio-cassette when we, as teenagers still at school, had 'dens' in old houses in Bury, Lancashire in the late 70s/early 80s.

Also really like 'Love Lost Love' from the 1975 UFO album 'Force It' (the one with the great shower scene cover):


Remember another old friend from Bury, Gaz Mills, raving about this tune after he'd just bought the album, and he was right, it's a fantastic melodic Rock track.

And of course, the beauties from 'Strangers in the Night' (in reality, too many too mention) starting with most people's favourite, 'Love To Love':


Just love the changes of pace and emotion in this tune, and, of course, the "misty green and blue" image.

And probably the first UFO tune I ever heard 'Doctor Doctor':


But the one that's stayed at the forefront of my mental jukebox more than others, 'Out in the Street':



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