This is an extremely rare find as the master tapes were long since considered destroyed, back in 1975 Rick was asked to oversee and write a lot of the music for the film Lizstomania which was directed by Ken Russell. Rick was also given a part in the film and played the god Thor.

A soundtrack album was produced by Rick which was subsequently turned down by A&M records, much to Rick's disgust, (there were huge disputes going on at the time with the label and they basically hated everything he produced even though he was selling albums in multi millions for them. It is well known that they turned down Journey to the Centre of the Earth initially and it was only by forcing the contract that Rick had with them that it was ever released. They also wanted to not release The Six Wives of Henry VIII until the vocals were put on it.

A&M then produced a soundtrack of their own which had very little of Rick on it and yet they thoughtfully put his name on the front cover. Rick was furious to say the least and hated the soundtrack album and told the press accordingly. It sold accordingly as well!

The film became one of the cult films of all time and to find this original soundtrack is quite unbelievable as there was only one master ever produced and somehow it has survived more than 25 years in a box amongst some old football shorts!

It has been carefully re-mastered and is truly something special. Rick's idea was to try and produce a completely different type of soundtrack and produced this one by making it into a form of story with hilarious narration that runs throughout spoken by Paul Nicholas.

Guest vocalists include Roger Daltrey, Paul Nicholas and Linda Lewis.