Obsession by UFO

Obsession, UFO's seventh studio album, hit the shops on Chrysalis in 1978, and it's the last studio stand for the classic lineup: Phil Mogg singing, Pete Way on bass, Andy Parker on drums, Paul Raymond on keyboards and former Scorpions hotshot Michael Schenker slinging lead guitar, which he wouldn't do on a UFO studio record again until 1993. Ron Nevison produced, and they cut it in, of all places, an abandoned post office in Los Angeles.

What they got was English hard rock with a slicker coat of paint and Schenker's guitar cutting through the middle like a switchblade. "Only You Can Rock Me" is the swaggering centerpiece: out as a single with "Cherry" in 1978, it also led the band's first three-track EP, with "Rock Bottom" alongside, which reached number 50 in the UK. The album has since been dressed up for reissue, first in a 2008 EMI remaster and then in a 2024 deluxe edition carrying a whole live show from Cleveland.

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