In 1988, Blue Oyster Cult made the weirdest album of a very weird career and nearly sank the band: “I know that the aliens lived underwater”
Blue Öyster Cult's 1988 album Imaginos was the culmination of a concept decades in the making, based on a mythology about an alien race shaping human history that founder and producer Sandy Pearlman had been developing since the mid-1960s. The band had drawn on Pearlman's poetry for lyrics on earlier records, including 1974's Secret Treaties,…
- Imaginos' alien-history concept was created by Sandy Pearlman in the 1960s.
- Drummer Albert Bouchard finally developed it into a full album by 1988.
- The chaotic production nearly broke up Blue Öyster Cult.
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