''Making Contact'' is the eleventh studio album by English
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and Distortion (music), distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the Garage rock, garage, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and blues ...
band
UFO
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, released in January 1983. It was their first album without founder and bassist
Pete Way
Peter Frederick Way (7 August 1950 – 14 August 2020) was an English bassist. He was the co-founder and original bassist of the rock band UFO from 1968 to 1982; he briefly rejoined the band in 1988–1989 and full-time from 1991 to 2008. He ...
. UFO disbanded after an unsuccessful European tour and a few UK dates in 1983.
Track listing
Personnel
;UFO
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Phil Mogg
Phillip John Mogg (born 15 April 1948, Wood Green, London) is an English singer. He was the lead singer and frontman of the hard rock band UFO, which he co-founded with longtime friends Pete Way, Andy Parker and Mick Bolton in 1968.Buckley, ...
– vocals
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Paul Chapman – lead guitar, bass
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Neil Carter – keyboards, rhythm guitar, bass on tracks 1, 5, 8 & 9, backing vocals
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Andy Parker – drums
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Paul Gray – bass on bonus tracks 12 & 13
;Production
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Mick Glossop
Mick Glossop is an English record producer and recording engineer best known for long-term collaboration with Van Morrison, as well as his work with Frank Zappa, The Waterboys, The Wonder Stuff, Public Image, LLoyd Cole and others, as well as bein ...
– producer, engineer
*Peter Thea, Richard Mainwaring – engineers
*Gavin McKillop, Keith Nixon, Leigh Mantle – assistant engineers
*Alan Adler – illustration
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John Pasche
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, Andrew Ellis – art direction
Charts
References
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1983 albums
UFO (band) albums
Chrysalis Records albums
Albums with cover art by Hipgnosis