Paul St.John - Spaceship Lover --PYE 7N. 45190 (1972 UK) B-Side of Flying Saucers have landed
Laurie Marshall
In 1972 Laurice, under the pseudonym of Paul St. John, recorded and released Flying Saucers Have Landed/ Spaceship Lover. In my opinion those are two wonderfully produced slabs of late Psych mixed in with some Bolan and Donovan. A good description would be Erik Von Daniken in velvet Loons.
\"That's exactly what it was! I thought the books were wonderful and they inspired me to write those songs. Both Flying Saucers Have Landed and Spaceship Lover were based on Erik Von Daniken. I later met Erik Von Daniken. He came to speak at Toronto University when I was in Toronto - and I was in the front row. I, of course, gave him a copy of Flying Saucers, and he was quite thrilled about it.\"
Although amply deserved, success was elusive as the single barely got a release...
\"I was really upset because I worked really hard on that record and it wasn't taken seriously by the record company. They didn't want to promote British singers...When Flying Saucers Have Landed was released, I was so pissed off with the BBC that I went demonstrating one day with a sandwich board outside the BBC. I walked up and down all day with a sign that said \"BBC unfair to British recording artists\".