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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno
In the same 1980 issue of Sounds, wholly gratuitous shot of depantsed but thankfully still underpanted Judge Dredd
Ugh!
double ugh!
In yet another issue Phil Mogg of UFO - one of Sounds frequent pin-ups - lays down the law:
Unclear if this is an ahead-of-its-time(-for-UK) pro-boxers sentiment or simply a belief in going commando style under your spandex metalgod leggings or leather jeans
This picture has appeared in Hardly Baked nearly as often as in Sounds at this point
UFO were on the cover of Sounds a ridiculous number of times - at least four times in end of '70s, early '80s heyday-of-sorts for the band.
Here's an unsightly bare-chested cover
Here's quite a good cover, and Mogg is fully clothed for once
Here's another with Mogg in a striking sweater
Sounds was a pretty sexist paper (the John Peel column alone is gross - not even hiding in plain sight his proclivities, but flaunting them).
But they did seem to maintain an equal opportunity thing with the scantily dressed pix of both genders - reflective I think of an earthier sensibility than NME or Melody Maker, rooted in a feeling for rock as a below-the-belt kind of music.
Phil Mogg, frontman of space rockers turned metal outfit UFO
From Sounds, 1979.
Is that his hand on the other side of his lower torso, or his actual knob, or side-ball? Anatomical experts adjudicate!
This is a photo that Sounds would recycle whenever the opportunity arose.
Reference in the blurb to UFObeing on Old Grey Whistle Test last week
Sounds really did seem to have a thing about displaying Phil Mogg in the near-buff
UFO got a lot of support from Sounds in this era and it wasn't always conditional on being unclothed
UFO - a band whose early records I would like to have liked more than I actually did.
Bit like with Hawkwind. But with less of a toothsome framing.
I have the first couple of albums, when they were UK space rock festival stalwarts. Cool logo.
"One Hour Space Rock"
The title track "Flying" is nearly 27 minutes long.
The thematics are very Hawkwindy
As they drifted towards hard rock, UFO became a classic fourth from the top of the bill, Knebworth, Reading, sort of band.
From the later metal-tending phase this is reputedly their stone classic.
Are they a bit like the Hawkwind / Motorhead branch-off/de-evolution, except it all occurs in the same band and under the same name?
Actually the evolution is exactly the same as The Scorpions, whose first few albums, I'm told, are actually pretty good space-rock.
Indeed Michael Schenker left Scorpions and joined UFO for a while
When they were no longer post-psychedelic, UFO started having album titles combining puns and sexism. Hipgnosis covers. Songs with titles like "Highway Lady"
More nuddy business for ya - a New Waver's arse akimbo this time..
Force It / Faucet, geddit. "New Wavers' arse akimbo"? See the cover models are Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti earning a bit of dosh on the side. Talking about gristle throbbing, eh?
Sleazy Christopherson worked at Hipgnosis, you see. Yet another case of Old Wave / New Wave blurring / secret continuity.
UFO kept slogging away and then Mechanix was their biggest success, got to #8 in the UK albums chart.
Kept slogging on and on- original members dropping like flies - and then the farewell tour, set for 2022, was cancelled, on doctor's orders (Mogg had had a heart attack).
There'd been been plans for the final show to be a "rock legends cruise, a five-day event in early 2020".
I wonder what Mogg's arse looks like now.
Married to a page 3 girl!
Nephew Nigel Mogg played bass in The Quireboys, staples of The Intrepid Fox and favorites of Melody Maker's hard rockin' Carol Clerk.
Classic desultory blowjob in a toilet stall at the Marquee bizniz.
