Hot Chocolate's "No Doubt About It"

[GNC]

Does anyone know the story behind Hot Chocolate's hit single "No Doubt About It" which told of a UFO encounter the band supposedly had? I'm having trouble finding anything about it on the internet.

 

[MrRING]

Just a bit here:

Strange Day Indeed
John Lennon stood naked on the terrace of his New York City penthouse and watched a dome-shaped UFO flashing a circle of red and white lights fly past the United Nations Building. On Walls and Bridges, Lennon sings "Strange Days," one of the last songs he wrote before his murder. "There's UFOs over New York and I ain't too surprised."

Many other legendary musicians have had Close Encounters. The band Hot Chocolate describes their UFO encounter in the number one hit single, "No Doubt About It." On "Passage," the Carpenters recorded "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft," and anthem for an International Contact Day. But some may be less forward about the sharing of their UFO experiences and perhaps are more cryptic. Consider: Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue," Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy," Elton John's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy," Jefferson Starship's "Freedom at Point Zero," anything by Earth, Wind and Fire and K-Tel's Starflight which gave us the hits "Heaven Must Have Sent You," and "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now."

It's just too ugly to consider the notion that the 8-track was passed to Bill Lear as part of some alien mind control plan. I prefer to think that maybe 8-track slipped through the cosmic crack. That a whole, good spirited band of alien trackers somehow managed to sneak the 8-track to us, knowing that at some point down the line there would be others here on Earth who would come to know that they know we know. And this knowledge alone may be enough to sustain us.

http://www.8trackheaven.com/ufo.html

 

[Graylien]

They forgot to mention Ricky Peebles. He was Britains entry into the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest with a song called "It's Only the Light". According to John Spencer's UFO Encyclopedia, Peebles claimed that the lyrics had been dictated to him by aliens, who promised he would win the contest. He didn't. He came 13th. As far as the lyrics go, one would have to advise our alien overlords not to give up the day job:

t's only the light
It's only the light
That fades through the night
A shadow has fallen
And the darkness - it's callin'
Hoh...

Shadows walkin' behind me
Strange lights - won't let them blind me
Voices runnin' on through my mind
Survival - got to get on with life

It's only the light
That fades through the night
A shadow has fallen
And the darkness - it's callin'
It's only the light
After me


Mirrors - I see your reflection
Moving in every direction
I can't see, it seems so confusing
So touch me, remove this illusion

It's only the light
That glows in the night
The spirit that moves me
The spirit that moves free
It's only the light
After me

Incidentally, the list quoted above should also have mentioned Jefferson Airplane's "Have You Seen The Saucers?" and possibly Pink Floyds "Saucerful of Secrets," although the album cover depicted the Floyd floating through the sky in something which resembed a giant goldfish bowl rather than a flying saucer. And as for Gong, well, what can I say?

I've never heard of the Hot Chocolate incident, though.

 

[Jerry_B]

I think this ties in with the Fortean music thread that resides somewhere within this forum...

 

[Vardoger]

Chris de Burgh wrote a song in the 70's about Jesus, Mary and Joseph being visited by an alien on christmas: "A Spaceman Came Travelling".
One of his better songs (except Eastern Wind of course) from that period.
Probably not one the christians most favorite christmas carols.

A spaceman came travelling on his ship from afar,
’twas light years of time since his mission did start,
And over a village he halted his craft,
And it hung in the sky like a star, just like a star...

He followed light and came down to a share,
Where a mother and a child were lying there on a bed,
A bright light of silver shone round his head,
And he had the face of an angle, and they were afraid...

Then the stranger spoke, he said ’do not fear,
I come from a planet a long way from here,
And I bring a message for mankind to hear’,
And suddenly the sweetest music filled the air...

And it went la, la...
Peace and goodwill to all men, and love for the child...

This lovely music went trembling through the ground,
And many were wakened on hearing that sound,
And travellers on the road, the village they found,
By the light of that ship in the sky, which shone all round...

And just before dawn at the paving of the sky,
The stranger returned and said ’now I must fly,
When two thousand years of your time has gone by,
This song will begin once again, to a baby’s cry...’

And it went la la... this song will begin once again
To a baby’s cry...
And it goes la la... peace and goodwill to all men
And love for the child...
Oh the whole world is waiting, waiting to hear that song again,
There are thousands standing on the edge of the world,
And a star is moving somewhere, the time is nearly here,
This song will begin once again, to a baby’s cry...

 

[Leaferne]

Am kicking myself now because I recently stumbled across the maddest website outlining the UFO experiences/connections of various rock stars...just googled for it and couldn't find it but I'll bring it back alive.

EDIT: damn straight, skippy.
ttp://www.xdream.freeserve.co.uk/Homepage2.htm

 

[dreeness]

(needs one more letter
http://www.xdream.freeserve.co.uk/Homepage2.htm