Atomic Roooster

Atomic Roooster [sic], also spelled Atomic Ro-o-oster on some later CD reissues, is the first album by British rock band Atomic Rooster, with keyboardist Vincent Crane, bassist and vocalist Nick Graham and drummer Carl Palmer.

Atomic Roooster
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1970
RecordedDecember 1969 - January 1970
GenreProgressive rock
LabelB&C (original UK release)
Fontana (original European release)
Repertoire (1991 German reissue)
ProducerAtomic Rooster
Tony Colton (tracks 1 and 7)
Atomic Rooster chronology
Atomic Roooster
Death Walks Behind You
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A few weeks after its release, guitarist and vocalist John Du Cann joined and Nick Graham, the original vocalist and bassist, left. Du Cann subsequently overdubbed three of the album's tracks for a projected US release. However, in the event, the album never saw US release and the overdubbed tracks eventually surfaced on a second pressing of the album in the UK (though with no corrections to the album credits), and subsequent CD reissues.

On the Australian pressing on Interfusion, the rooster's breasts were painted over with feathers on the cover.[1]

The album was reissued on vinyl in 2016.