Klaatu CD Collection

In August of 1976, the self-titled debut album by an unknown group called Klaatu was released on Capitol Records to little notice. The following February Steve Smith, a writer for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island, wrote an article titled "Could Klaatu Be the Beatles? Mystery Is a Magical Mystery Tour." The article began the rumor that Klaatu was "more than likely either in part or in whole the Beatles." These conjectures, fueled by a series of articles in trade magazines like Billboard created a huge amount of hype and Capitol did nothing to deny or confirm the rumors. Throughout 1977, record sales soared and radio stations ran "Is Klaatu the Beatles?" promotions. Reportedly, some of the "clues" as to whether or not Klaatu were the Beatles included backward messages, Morse code, references to the group's identities in the song lyrics, and the word "Beatles" hidden in various places on the record jacket. After several months of conjecture, the group's identity was revealed at the end of year -- it wasn't the Beatles after all, it was Terry Draper (songwriter, vocalist, drummer), John Woloschuck, and Dee Long. Immediately, their record sales declined, and due to a backlash generated by the Beatles hoax their four subsequent albums failed to sell. The group broke up in 1981.

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tugman (2005-01-23)

Thanks a lot Man!!
These are realy hard to get.

KingStar (2005-01-24)

Thanks,
I figured they were hard to get that's why I wanted to share them.
Enjoy.

philthefug (2005-01-24)

Funny thing is i was just going over what i had by this groug (which is not much) today and up pops everything. Makes you want to believe in magic.
Thanks
Phil

corporeal1 (2005-04-23)

KingStar, thanks for the time machine.
I've been looking for these for ages. Haven't heard them in probably twenty years since playing my brothers records when he wasn't looking. Just one question, how do you play the the CD backwards? Ha!
-Corp

darkshornn (2005-06-09)

Can we get someone to seed this please?

darkshornn (2005-06-09)

Oh, by the way the group has remastered some of their albums which are available to order over the internet at and the groups homepage is www.klaatu.org.

KingStar (2005-08-15)

I'm reseeding for a while now.

KingStar (2006-01-03)

I'm sharing these AGAIN! At least people can do is share it for a while when they get a full copy...

coop79 (2006-03-03)

Can someone pls seed for a short while?

qwerty (2007-02-20)

Thank's a million!!!!!

Linkani12 (2007-03-18)

Downloading once more.
Will keep it alive until me or my HD wears out.

CyruDraxs (2007-11-01)

0 seeders makes me sad. :(

CyruDraxs (2007-11-02)

Yay! Downloaded and seeding until at least 100 share ratio!

Sloppsbox (2008-01-17)

Couldn´t be more happy!
Been searching for ages.
:-)
Thank you ever so much mate!
Now for some serious seeding.
Cheers!

skwiez (2008-05-26)

Thank you so much! I had all of these until my harddrive crashed, and they're not easy to find!

skwiez (2008-05-27)

This is good but not perfect. For some reason each disc is ripped at a different bitrate. 3:47 EST is at 320kbps, Hope and Sir Army Suit are at 192kbps, Endangered Species is mostly 160kbps except track 1 is VBR and track 6 is only 128kbps. Magentalane is the worst, and is a random mix of 128kbps, 160kbps, 192kbps, and VBR tracks. It seems like these might be sourced from different sources and possibly different versions of the album.

newbrownshoe (2011-04-28)

Thx KingStar. 6 years later the seed is still alive....

deadres (2011-08-02)

I am going to seed this for the longest time ever. Thanks so much!! I've been looking for this for months!

pwad57 (2012-09-02)

I wonder why Steve Smith wrote "Could Klaatu Be the Beatles? Mystery Is a Magical Mystery Tour."?
Klaatu's music was more like Pink Floyd!!
Thanks for UL :D

pir8guy (2014-01-22)

Man I loved these guys! Thanks!