"It sounded as though someone was being murdered. The police were called out for the first time in five years": Chaos in the Caribbean and the story of UFO's No Place To Run

UFO pose in Monserrat.

UFO stood poised on the precipice of the big time as the 1970s drew to a close, their tough-kernelled, irresistible melodies and a seemingly unquenchable appetite for hedonism placing them among the decade’s most fascinating and entertaining bands.

Things had grown incrementally for the London-based quintet over the course of five studio albums that featured the German wunderkind Michael Schenker on guitar – an artistic and commercial evolution that looked set to establish UFO among the biggest rock groups in the world.