Artist: UFO
Album: PHENOMENON REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1974/ 2008
Media type: CD

Recorded at Morgan Studios, London, England. Up until their 1974 album, PHENOMENON, England's UFO had issued several albums that did little to expand their cult fan base at home, let alone worldwide. But through an early-'70s tour with German metallists the Scorpions, they finally found the missing piece to the puzzle--guitar wizard Michael Schenker. UFO convinced Schenker to leave the Scorpions (which wasn't an easy task, since his older brother Rudolf was a member), and their '74 release sounds like a band reborn.

Schenker's stellar playing seems to have lit a fire under the compositions, many of which rank amongst UFO's all-time best--namely the soon-to-be live show-stoppers "Doctor Doctor," and "Rock Bottom" (as evidenced on UFO's classic STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT live set). PHENOMENON set the stage perfectly for such future hit UFO releases as LIGHTS OUT and OBSESSION.

TRACKLIST:

1. Too Young To Know
2. Crystal Light
3. Doctor Doctor
4. Space Child
5. Rock Bottom
6. Oh My
7. Time On My Hands
8. Built For Comfort
9. Lipstick Traces
10. Queen Of The Deep

11. Sixteen (demo produced by Dave Edmunds)
12. Oh My (demo produced by Dave Edmunds)
13. Give Her The Gun
14. Sweet Little Thing
15. Sixteen (unreleased studio track)
16. Doctor Doctor (Radio 1 live version)

UFO:

Phil Mogg (vocals)
Michael Schenker (guitar)
Pete Way (bass)
Andy Parker (drums)