Having suffered a heart attack in 2022, curtailing UFO’s farewell tour, medics told Phil Mogg to retire. Thank goodness he ignored them, because this is the dog’s – Mogg’s – bollocks, reminiscent of a deeper, darker version of UFO as the now 76-year-old singer ponders his own mortality.
For evidence, check out the pulsating Sunny Side Of Heaven, the tale of a spectral bevvy with former bandmates Pete Way and Paul Chapman (both RIP): ‘I’ve been drinking with the devil’s angels/It’s where the dead roads come to meet.’
