Artist: MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP
Album: THE CHRYSALIS YEARS 1980-1984 (5CD BOX)

Release date: 2012
Media type: CD

UK five CD set from the guitar hero and former UFO and Scorpions member. After leaving UFO in 1978, legendary guitarist Michael Schenker decided to form his own group - settling on a name that left no confusion about the creative force in the group! The Chrysalis Years 1980-1984' collects together all six of Schenker's albums recorded for Chrysalis Records including bonus live tracks and more.

Features his eponymous 1980 debut featuring vocalist Gary Barden, 1981's 'MSG' featuring Cozy Powell on drums and UFO's Paul Raymond on keyboards and guitar, and the legendary Japanese double live 'One Night At Budokan', recorded in Tokyo on MSG's 1981 tour. Released the same year, 1982's 'Assault Attack' was the sole recording to feature former Rainbow vocalist Graham Bonnet, before Barden's return for 1983's 'Built To Destroy'. This set is rounded off by MSG's second live album, 'Rock Will Never Die' which effectively became the swan song for this 1980's era of the band.

DISC 1: MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP (1980)/ LIVE AT THE MANCHESTER APOLLO (1980):

1. Armed and Ready
2. Cry for the Nations
3. Victim of Illusion
4. Bijou Pleasurette
5. Feels Like a Good Thing
6. Into the Arena
7. Looking Out from Nowhere
8. Tales of Mystery
9. Lost Horizons

10. Armed and Ready - (previously unreleased)
11. Cry for the Nations - (previously unreleased)
12. Victim of Illusion - (previously unreleased)
13. Rock Bottom - (previously unreleased)
14. Tales of Mystery - (previously unreleased)
15. Lost Horizons - (previously unreleased)

DISC 2: BONUS TRACKS/ MSG (1981):

1. Armed and Ready [Live B-Side]
2. Into the Arena [Live B-Side]
3. Cry for the Nations [Radio Edit]
4. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie [Sounds Flexi Edit] - (previously unreleased)

5. Ready to Rock
6. Attack of the Mad Axeman
7. On and On
8. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
9. But I Want More
10. Never Trust a Stranger
11. Looking for Love
12. Secondary Motion

DISC 3: ONE NIGHT AT BUDOKAN (1981):

1. Introduction
2. Armed and Ready
3. Cry for the Nations
4. Attack of the Mad Axeman
5. But I Want More
6. Victim of Illusion
7. Into the Arena
8. On and On
9. Never Trust a Stranger
10. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
11. Courvoisier Concert
12. Lost Horizons
13. Doctor Doctor
14. Ready to Rock

DISC 4: ASSAULT ATTACK (1982)/ BUILT TO DESTROY (1983) SIDE ONE:

1. Assault Attack
2. Rock You to the Ground
3. Dancer
4. Samurai
5. Desert Song
6. Broken Promises
7. Searching for a Reason
8. Ulcer
9. Girl from Uptown [B-Side]
10. Rock My Nights Away
11. I'm Gonna Make You Mine
12. The Dogs of War
13. Systems Failing
14. Captain Nemo

DISC 5: BUILT TO DESTROY (1983) SIDE TWO/ ROCK WILL NEVER DIE (1984):

1. Still Love That Little Devil
2. Red Sky
3. Time Waits (For No One)
4. Rock Will Never Die (Walk the Stage)

5. Captain Nemo
6. Rock My Nights Away
7. Ready to Rock
8. Attack of the Mad Axeman
9. Into the Arena
10. Rock Will Never Die
11. Desert Song
12. I'm Gonna Make You Mine
13. Doctor Doctor (previously unreleased)
14. Armed and Ready [Radio Remix] - (remix)