E-Z
Senior Member
Ha ha.. I knew you would take it as a joke Ian
Nice to meet you, I’m Sweet Chicanery ☺️
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E-Z
Senior Member
Hi Sweet Chicanery first off welcome on board anyway I see that you really like Queen which is great although personally I never really got into them in a big way myself although I can see why they had loads of fans and virtually all of Queen's UK released singles that appeared in the UK British singles charts back in the 1970s & 1980s were all great songs to listen too!.
With regards to UFO I use to listen to them occasionally back in the day and for a period of time in the late 1970s and early 1980s they along with Thin Lizzy and Rainbow and the Ronnie Dio lead Black Sabbath were the only 'proper' British 'heavy rock' bands around during that time in the UK worth listening to anyway with regards to UFO and one of their songs in particular that I don't particularly like is 'Love To Love' I just don't like the lyrics or the song much so I tend to avoid the band these days especially any 'live' recordings cos Love To Love was ALWAYS played in the set.
If you haven't heard of RAINBOW before try listening to the album DOWN TO EARTH in particular with the singer Graham Bonnet because it is 'heavy but melodic' and from what I recall at that time 1979/80 the band claimed that they noticed a lot more teenage girl's and young women at the gigs when DOWN TO EARTH got into the British album charts helped by the hit singles Since You Been Gone & All Night All that are both featured on the album and you may like it.
With regards to UFO I use to listen to them occasionally back in the day and for a period of time in the late 1970s and early 1980s they along with Thin Lizzy and Rainbow and the Ronnie Dio lead Black Sabbath were the only 'proper' British 'heavy rock' bands around during that time in the UK worth listening to anyway with regards to UFO and one of their songs in particular that I don't particularly like is 'Love To Love' I just don't like the lyrics or the song much so I tend to avoid the band these days especially any 'live' recordings cos Love To Love was ALWAYS played in the set.
If you haven't heard of RAINBOW before try listening to the album DOWN TO EARTH in particular with the singer Graham Bonnet because it is 'heavy but melodic' and from what I recall at that time 1979/80 the band claimed that they noticed a lot more teenage girl's and young women at the gigs when DOWN TO EARTH got into the British album charts helped by the hit singles Since You Been Gone & All Night All that are both featured on the album and you may like it.
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Sweetchicanery
Junior Member
Ahh thank you for sharing! Yes I do know Rainbow.
I think bands’ original stuff is always better, before record companies try to commercialise them!
Nai Noswad
Senior Member
Hey sweetchicanery... I discovered UFO working on my relations funfair... Picked out this single on the Beacon label from a hook the duck stall win... hope this fits your "original" brief Mick Bolton on guitar /chug/atmosphere
E-Z
Senior Member
You may already know this Sweet Chicanery with regards to Rainbow in particular going in a more 'commercial direction' from 1979 until the bands demise in 1984 Ritchie Blackmore the bands guitarist and a founding member was trying to break the band into the highly valuable north American market so Ronnie James Dio the original Rainbow vocalist was 'dropped' and in came Graham Bonnet instead for the DOWN TO EARTH album released in 1979 to appeal to AM radio stations and teenage girl's and young women especially.
According to Ronnie Dio one day Ritchie asked him to write a 'love song' and Ronnie replied "Goodbye!"
According to Ronnie Dio one day Ritchie asked him to write a 'love song' and Ronnie replied "Goodbye!"
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Sweetchicanery
Junior Member
You won a record on hook a duck? I thought it was just for cuddly toys
Sweetchicanery
Junior Member
Oh okay, thank you. No, I don’t know much about band history really
Hydrazoic Acid
Skeptic
You know, despite the fact, that I'm UFO's fan, I have to agree with you, that "Love To Love" was totally overplayed. For example, I'd prefer to hear live version of "Belladonna" instead of it (in particular, on "Strangers In The Night" live LP).
TACdtf
Senior Member
I'm a huge UFO fan, and overplayed doesn't just apply to Love To Love. It basically applies to their entire setlist over the last 15-20 years. I get that there's 3 or 4 songs that are always played, but it was the next level down songs that never got rotated out. SChenker actually just referenced Belladonna in a recent interview. Love that song.
