UFO / Lights Out – deluxe edition

Hard rock band UFO’s 1977 album, Lights Out, is being reissued in February.

The album is seen as UFO’s breakthrough record and was the group’s highest-charting album in the US, reaching number 23 on the Billboard 200. It was released in May 1977.

Lights out featured orchestral arrangements and a new line-up – Paul Raymond (keyboards and guitar) replaced keyboard player, Danny Peyronel – and was the first UFO album to be produced by Ron Nevison, who worked with Thin Lizzy and Led Zeppelin.

The title track of the album was inspired by the Notting Hill riots of 1976 and the record closes with ‘Love to Love’, which Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris has said is his favourite song of all time.

The 2024 remastered reissue will be available as a 2CD deluxe and a 3LP vinyl set, with a tri-fold gatefold sleeve. The 2CD edition comes with three bonus tracks, on CD 1, including a previously unreleased rough acoustic take of the song by Love, ‘Alone Again Or’, as well as an edit of ‘Too Hot To Handle’ and the seven-inch version of ‘Try Me.’

Both the LP and the CD versions feature a newly-mixed recording of the first show on the Lights Out tour at The Roundhouse, London, on 2 April 1977. The new mix of the concert is by Richard Whittaker and the album has been remastered from the original tape transfers by engineer Andy Pearce.

The 2024 edition of the album has liner notes from UK music journalist Michael Hann, which includes newly-conducted interviews with the original band members.

Lights Out will be reissued on 2 February 2024 via Chrysalis Records.

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Lights Out - 2CD set

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Tracklisting

Lights Out UFO /

• 2CD deluxe
  • CD 1: Lights Out (2024 Remaster)
    1. Too Hot To Handle
    2. Just Another Suicide
    3. Try
       Me
    4. Lights Out
    5. Gettin’ Ready
    6. Alone Again
       Or
    7. Electric Phase
    8. Love To Love

    Bonus tracks

    1. Too Hot To
       Handle (Edit)
    2. Alone Again Or (Acoustic Rough
       Studio Version)
    3. Try Me (7” Version)
  • CD 2: Live at the Roundhouse, London, 2nd April 1977
    1. Lights Out
    2. Gettin’ Ready
    3. Love To Love
    4. On With The Action
    5. Doctor Doctor
    6. Try Me
    7. Too Hot To Handle
    8. Out In The Street
    9. This Kid’s
    10. Shoot Shoot
    11. Rock Bottom
    12. Let It Roll
    13. C’mon Everybody
• 3LP vinyl
  • LP 1

    Side A

    1. Too Hot To Handle
    2. Just
       Another Suicide
    3. Try Me
    4. Lights Out

    Side B

    1. Gettin’ Ready
    2. Alone Again Or
    3. Electric Phase
    4. Love To Love
  • LP 2: Live at the Roundhouse, London, 2nd April 1977

    Side C

    1. Lights Out
    2. Gettin’ Ready
    3. Love To Love

    Side D

    1. 1. On With The Action
    2. 2. Doctor Doctor
    3. 3. Try Me
    4. 4. Too Hot To Handle
  • LP 3: Live at the Roundhouse, London, 2nd April 1977

    Side E

    • Out In The Street
    • This Kid’s
    • Shoot Shoot
    • Rock Bottom

    Side F

    • Let It Roll
    • C’mon Everybody