UFO bassist Pete Way once told this writer that when Paul Chapman took on the herculean task of replacing Michael Schenker in UFO in 1978, “he did a damned good job of making it a good rock’n’roll band. Paul was a great guitar player, more in the Gary Moore mould”. And just as Moore’s permanent return to Thin Lizzy that same year galvanised Lizzy to follow Live And Dangerous with the stellar Black Rose, Chapman’s arrival helped UFO land a knockout after Strangers In The Night with No Place To Run (1980).
Recording with producer George Martin at AIR Studios in Montserrat overran, forcing Way, Chapman, and vocalist Phil Mogg to fly from an already scheduled European tour to AIR London every few nights for mixing. Chapman later told me: “Our ears were knackered,” and he felt that subsequent remasters improved Martin’s original mix.
