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After legendary rockers UFO announced retirement a couple of weeks ago, vocalist Phil Mogg has launched a new project dubbed Mogg's Motel and self-titled debut album. The latter is scheduled for a September 2024 release via SPV/Steamhammer. More details in due time.

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[band_id]3563[/band_id] frontman Phil Mogg confirmed in a recent interview with Ultimate Classic Rock that, following a 55-year run, the legendary hard rock/heavy metal band has officially called it quits. This news comes nearly two years after UFO had to cancel a tour, due to Mogg's recovery after suffering a heart attack.

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Legendary British rock veterans UFO was forced to cancel their October concert run, due to the fact that band vocalist Phil Mogg is recovering after suffering a heart attack last week. The 74-year-old British-born musician was rushed to the hospital where he had two stents implanted into his coronary arteries. This is known medically as a coronary angioplasty and aims to re-open the blocked coronary artery by inserting one or more stents. This helps keep the narrowed artery open.

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After recently announcing their last-ever concert to be performed in Athens (October 29th, 2022), the legendary Brits UFO now confirm a complete set of farewell shows in 2022 (divided in two parts).

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British rockers UFO just announced that they are going to take for the last time ever on October 29th, 2022 at an undisclosed venure in Athens, Greece, where the band performed its first show featuring current guitarist Vinnie Moore back in 2004. This show will also serve as the final date of the band's recently-rescheduled European tour that will take place from next summer to fall, and tickets expect to go on sale on October 1st.

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British hard rock legends UFO have announced a batch of European tour dates that will take place next year, heading to Germany in July, which will be followed three months later by another European leg. As part of their ongoing farewell tour, which began back in 2019, the tour includes rescheduled dates that were supposed to take place this year, but the coronavirus pandemic caused them to be postponed to 2022.

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Iconic bass player Pete Way, founder of UFO, Waysted and, latterly, The Pete Way Band has died at the age of 69. He sustained life threatening injuries in an accident two months ago but fought hard until finally succumbing to those injuries yesterday.

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Sad news has come from former UFO guitarist Paul Chapman's son, who confirmed via his father's Facebook page that Chapman has passed away at age 66. Paul was part of the band in years 1974-1975, 1977 and 1978-1983.

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Today, the legendary British act UFO starts their European tour, celebrating extraordinary 50 years of the band's formation. It will kick off at the MusikZentrum in Hannover and will include several festival appearances until the end of the run in Leipzig, on August 3rd.

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Legendary British hard rockers UFO announced with great sadness that their long-time keyboardist and guitarist Paul Raymond died on April 13th, after suffering a heart attack. He was 73 years old. A statement from his wife Sandra can be read below.

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UFO's guitarist Vinnie Moore recently announced via Facebook that the band has been in his home studio tracking their next album, which is tentatively due for release in early 2017 and will serve as the follow-up to last year's A Conspiracy Of Stars.

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Bassist Pete Way is facing another health crisis. The 65-year-old former bassist for UFO has suffered a heart attack. In the summer of 2013, Way was diagnosed with prostate cancer during a routine check-up. A year later, he had officially beaten the disease, and he also expressed remorse about having lived a rock and roll lifestyle for so many years. Hopefully, he can recover from this too.

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UFO are about to release Live Sightings, a magnificent 4CD box set featuring vintage live performances from the early '80s that finds Phil Mogg and company blasting through highlights from records such as No Place To Run, The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent and Mechanix, and seamlessly blending them in with the group's more well-known spawn.

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After some teasing, UFO have finally premiered a new song from their next record. "Run Boy Run", the track which you can check out below, is from the band's new album, A Conspiracy Of Stars, to be released on March 3rd in the US (Europe on February 23rd) via Steamhammer/SPV. How was that as a foretaste?

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UFO will release a new album, A Conspiracy Of Stars, on February 23rd in Europe and March 3rd in the U.S. via Steamhammer/SPV. The band recorded almost a dozen new songs, produced and mixed in the Kentish town of Deal by Chris Tsangarides, renowned for his work with acts such as Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest and Gary Moore. You can enjoy now a teaser for A Conspiracy Of Stars which is available below as a foretaste.

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