Obsession (UFO album)

Obsession
Studio album by
UFO
Released23 June 1978 (1978-06-23)[1]
StudioC.P. McGregors, Western Avenue, Los Angeles and West 3rd Carrier Station, Beverly Hills, California with The Record Plant Mobile
Genre
Length35:59
LabelChrysalis
ProducerRon Nevison
UFO chronology
Lights Out
(1977) 		Obsession
(1978) 		Strangers in the Night
(1979)
Singles from Obsession
  1. "Cherry"
    Released: June 1978 (US)[4]
  2. "Only You Can Rock Me"
    Released: July 1978 (UK)[5]
  3. "Born to Lose"
    Released: 1978 (NL)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Christgau's Record GuideC−[7]

Obsession is the seventh studio album by English rock band UFO, released in 1978. This was the final studio album to feature Michael Schenker on lead guitar until he returned to the band in 1993. A single from the album, "Only You Can Rock Me" / "Cherry", was also released in 1978. So too was the band's first three-track EP "Only You Can Rock Me", "Cherry" / "Rock Bottom", reaching No. 50 in the UK.[which?] The album was recorded at an abandoned post office in Los Angeles.

EMI's 2008 remastered edition includes three bonus live tracks, and also some writing credits are corrected.

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 32.
  2. ^ "UFO : Obsession". Spirit-of-metal.com.
  3. ^ Prato, Greg. "Obsession review by Greg Prato". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 February 2023. UFO's Obsession was to be their last studio record with star guitarist Michael Schenker. It did indeed contain lots of prime metal cuts, but some of the material ultimately fell flat
  4. ^ Hung, Steffen. "UFO - Cherry". Hitparade.ch.
  5. ^ Hung, Steffen. "UFO - Only You Can Rock Me". Hitparade.ch.
  6. ^ Prato, Greg. "Obsession - UFO". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  7. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: U". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 17 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.