Following last year’s The Chrysalis Years Volume 1, 1973-1979, UFO – The Chrysalis Years (1980-1986) collects together all six of the “post-Schenker” albums UFO recorded for Chrysalis in the 1980s.

Due out on May 22nd, this anthology kicks off with 1980’s No Place To Run, now featuring the single edit ‘Young Blood’, available on CD for the first time, as well as its live b-side ‘Hot 'N' Ready’, recorded in concert at that year’s Reading festival. Next up is a BBC gig recorded for Radio 1 on their 1980 No Place To Run UK tour. Featuring the classics ‘Out In The Street’, ‘Cherry’, ‘Only You Can Rock Me’, ‘Love To Love’, ‘Doctor Doctor’, ‘Too Hot To Handle’, ‘Lights Out’ and ‘Rock Bottom’, this is the first time the original broadcast has been released on CD in its entirety.

1981’s The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent (UK No 19) kicks off with live favourite ‘Chains Chains’, and includes the singles ’Couldn't Get It Right’ and the 7” edit of ‘Lonely Heart’, previously unreleased on CD. Back in the days when rock groups were expected to produce (at least) one LP a year, and UFO being no slouches, they produced Mechanix (UK No 8) in 1982, now featuring the otherwise unavailable b-side, ‘Heel Of A Stranger’. 1983’s Making Contact, the first album to be recorded without founder member and bassist Pete Way, now features the b-side ‘Everybody Knows’, as well as the previously unreleased on CD - 7” edit of single ‘When It's Time To Rock’.

As UFO have now been touring and recording in excess of 40 years and 20 albums, announcing their “farewell” tour in 1983 may have been a little premature, but to commemorate this, a number of concerts were recorded on that tour, resulting in the 5 tracks taped at London’s famed Hammersmith Odeon, and later released on Headstone. The “comeback” record, and their final LP for Chrysalis, Misdemeanor was released in 1986, and now features the non-album b-side ‘The Chase’, as well as US Remix versions of ‘Night Run’, ‘Heavens Gate’ and ‘One Heart’. The package is completed with liner notes written in conjunction with singer, songwriter and UFO mainstay Phil Mogg (available on request), conducted whilst the band recorded their very latest album, which is due for release later in 2012.

UFO – The Chrysalis Years (1980-1986)

Disc 1

No Place To Run'

'Alpha Centauri'

'Lettin' Go'

'Mystery Train'

'This Fire Burns Tonight'

'Gone In The Night'

'Young Blood'

'No Place To Run'

'Take It Or Leave It'

'Money Money'

'Anyday'

Bonus tracks

'Young Blood' (Edit - Previously Unreleased on CD)

'Hot 'N' Ready' (live b-side)

BBC In Concert (4th February 1980)

Previously Unreleased on CD

'Lettin' Go'

'Young Blood'

'No Place To Run'

'Out In The Street'

'Cherry'

'Only You Can Rock Me'

'Love To Love'

Disc 2

BBC In Concert (4th February 1980) continued

Previously Unreleased (released digitally as 686 8115)

'Mystery Train

'Doctor Doctor

'Too Hot To Handle

'Lights Out

'Rock Bottom

The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent

'Chains Chains'

'Long Gone'

'The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent'

'It's Killing Me'

'Makin' Moves'

'Lonely Heart'

'Couldn't Get It Right'

'Profession Of Violence'

Bonus track

'Lonely Heart' (7” edit - previously unreleased on CD)

Disc 3

Mechanix'

'The Writer'

'Somethin' Else'

'Back Into My Life'

'You'll Get Love'

'Doing It All For You'

'We Belong To The Night'

'Let It Rain'

'Terri'

'Feel It'

'Dreaming'

Bonus track

'Heel Of A Stranger' (b-side)

Disc 4

Making Contact'

'Blinded By A Lie'

'Diesel In The Dust'

'A Fool For Love'

'You And Me'

'When It's Time To Rock'

'The Way The Wild Wind Blows'

'Call My Name'

'All Over You'

'No Getaway'

'Push, It's Love'

Bonus tracks

'Everybody Knows' (b-side)

'When It's Time To Rock' (7” edit - previously unreleased on CD)

Headstone - Live At Hammersmith 1983

'We Belong To The Night'

'Let It Rain'

'Couldn't Get It Right'

'Electric Phase'

'Doing It All For You'

Disc 5

Misdemeanor

'This Time'

'One Heart'

'Night Run'

'The Only Ones'

'Meanstreets'

'Name Of Love'

'Blue'

'Dream The Dream'

'Heavens Gate'

'Wreckless'

Bonus tracks

'The Chase '(b-side)

'Night Run' (b-side US Remix)

'Heavens Gate' (b-side US Remix)

'One Heart' (b-side US Remix)