UFO - 'Too Hot to Handle' (official lyric video)

Caught in the crossfire, warnin' fight
Legends make or break game
Swept up by the rollin' waves of the night
The paper chase for fame

An' I was too, too hot, baby
Too hot to handle
Yeah, I was too, too hot
Too hot to handle

Wink of an eye, the feelings ran high
A real rock an' roll molest
But I ain't no romance and I ain't no slow chance
Won't get no quick change

Yeah, I'm too, too hot, baby
Too hot to handle
Yeah, I'm too, too hot, baby
Too hot to handle

Sha la la la, roll you over
Turn you around and do it again
Sha la la la, keep on comin'
Do it once but never the same

Sha la la la, roll you over
Turn you around and do it again
Sha la la la, keep on comin'
An' do it once but never the same

I'm in your town, won't fool around
I'll make some action stick
Just like the story says, these boys are bad
So keep out of shootin' range

'Cause I'm too, too hot, baby
Too hot to handle
Yeah I'm too, too hot
Too hot to handle

Yeah, I'm too, too hot, baby
Too hot to handle
Yeah, I'm too, too, too hot
Too hot to handle

Ένας από τους κορυφαίους δίσκους της δεκαετίας του εβδομήντα θα επανακυκλοφορήσει αύριο (2 Φεβρουαρίου 2024). Πρόκειται για το έκτο full length album στην (μεγάλη) καριέρα των UFO, "Lights Out", που (πρωτο)κυκλοφόρησε τον Μάιο του 1977. Τρία από τα μέλη που μετείχαν στις ηχογραφήσεις μας λένε σχετικά...

Phil Mogg (φωνητικά): «We were hitting our stride, playing well. We’d got to where we wanted to be.»

Michael Schenker (κιθάρα): «This was the first album with this line-up, and there were always surprises coming up.»

Andy Parker (τύμπανα): «When we listened back to it, we all knew: ‘This is really good’.»

Εναρκτήριο τραγούδι του δίσκου ήταν το "Too Hot to Handle", το οποίο τον επόμενο μήνα (Ιούνιος 1977) κυκλοφόρησε και αυτόνομα, ως single. Με αφορμή την επανακυκλοφορία (σε διπλό cd και τριπλό βινύλιο - συμπεριλαμβάνεται και το "ζωντανά" ηχογραφημένο album "Live at Roundhouse, 1977") παρακολουθούμε το lyric video του εναρκτήριου τραγουδιού...

Δελτίο τύπου: «Lights Out was released in May 1977 and became the group’s biggest album to date, reaching No.23 in the US. Michael Schenker’s status as the most exciting guitarist in heavy rock was confirmed, the band were rejuvenated with personnel change as Paul Raymond replaced Danny Peyronel and Leo Lyons, who had produced the band’s previous three albums was replaced by Ron Nevison, whose work with Led Zeppelin had impressed and signalled the first in a stellar run of collaborations.

An album rich in quality, title track ‘Lights Out’ offers an urgent portrayal of a dystopian London, dripping with “batons charging... the smell of anarchy”. The song was inspired by the same thing that led Joe Strummer to write ‘White Riot’ for the Clash - the Notting Hill Riots of August 1976.

Closing out the record is what Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris has called his favourite song of all time, ‘Love to Love’, arguably the albums crowning achievement.

Newly remastered from the original tape transfers by legendary engineer Andy Pearce, the album is sonically more gripping than ever. This 3LP set comes with a recording of the first show of the Lights Out tour, at the Roundhouse, London from April 2nd 1977, newly mixed by Richard Whittaker.

Remastered and cut by legendary engineer Andy Pearce, the material enclosed sounds as urgent and thrilling as when it was first released.

Newly written liner notes from Michael Hann interweaved with newly conducted interviews with original band members tell the story of this fantastic record.»