Flying (album)

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Flying
Flying cover
Studio album by UFO
Released 1971
Recorded 1971
Genre Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Length 58:34
Label Beacon Records
Producer Guy Fletcher OBE & Doug Flett
Professional reviews
UFO chronology
UFO 1
(1970)
Flying
(1971)
Phenomenon
(1974)

UFO 2 - Flying (sometimes simply UFO 2 or Flying; also subtitled One Hour Space Rock) is the second album by UFO released in 1971 (see 1971 in music) on Beacon label; issued on CD in 1994 on Repertoire Records.

This album is distinctive for its title track, which is the longest song the band ever recorded. The track finishes with a backmasked reading from Rudyard Kipling's Gunga Din: "Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"

It was the last album to feature Mick Bolton on guitar, he would be replaced with Michael Schenker not long after the album's release.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Silver Bird" – 6:53
  2. "Star Storm" – 18:53
  3. "Prince Kajuku" – 3:55
  4. "The Coming Of Prince Kajuku" – 3:43
  5. "Flying" – 26:30

[edit] Singles

  • "Prince Kajuku" / "The Coming Of Prince Kajuku" (1971)