Klaatu Klaatu / Hope CD

1976 and 1977 albums from Klaatu, originally released on Capitol Records; both made the US charts (to No.32 and No.83 respectively) The story goes that The Beatles had recorded an album in 1966 which was to be the follow up to 'Revolver', but the master tapes had been lost. This was also when Paul McCartney had supposedly died in a car crash, so the remaining trio recruited McCartney-lookalike Billy Shears, and with him recorded the 'Sergeant Pepper' album. In 1975, the "lost" tapes were rediscovered and Lennon, Harrison, Starr and Shears decided to release the album as a tribute to their dead bass player. And if you believe that... The thing was that the whole Klaatu project was anonymous, so there were many theories about who it could be. The fact that it was all a record company hype, designed to produce maximum publicity for an unknown act, only became clear later. Klaatu's single 'Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft' was a huge worldwide hit for the Carpenters, whose version reached the UK Top 10 and the US Top 40

1. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognised Anthem...) 2. California Jam 3. Anus of Uranus 4. Sub-Rosa Subway 5. True Life Hero 6. Doctor Marvello 7. Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III 8. Little Neutrino 9. We're Off You Know 10. Madman 11. Around the Universe in Eighty Days 12. Long Live Politzania 13. Loneliest of Creatures 14. Prelude [Instrumental] 15. So Said the Lighthouse Keeper 16. Hope