Two Classic Albums From Klaatu

"We're Off You Know" is the opening track from Klaatu's 1977 Album "Hope" There are three different versions of this track. Version #1 was completed in February 1977 and appears on the previously unreleased "orchestral" mixes of the "Hope" album . A second version (with several changes added) was completed in May 1977 and appears on the released version of the album. On October 20, 1977 a third version of this track was remixed at Sounds Interchange Studios (Toronto) for the vinyl single release. Read more on Last.fm.

Klaatu was a Canadian progressive rock band formed in 1973 and disbanded in 1982. Members John Woloschuk, Dee Long and Terry Draper lived in Toronto. They released five studio albums, the most famous of which is the 1976 debut 3:47 EST (AKA Klaatu), which, due to a rumor started by a DJ, was believed by some to be a front for new work by the Beatles. The album's artwork contained no credits for the performers, and there were at times vocal similarities with Lennon and McCartney. That album's song Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft became a hit when covered by carpenters. As the Beatle rumors subsided, subsequent albums garnered diminishing sales, and the fourth album, Endangered Species (1980), was produced by LA studio musicians with very little input from the band. Their last album, Magentalane (1981), was a return to the band's form (though on a smaller scale, without the elaborate orchestrations which characterized their first albums), but was never released in the US. Klaatu was named after Michael Rennie's character in the classic science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). The band has reunited a number of times since their breakup for small-scale live performances. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.