As a clever businessman Les Humphries started parallel to his hippie choir a project, oriented towards the progressive underground of those years. The ten tracks composed by Humphries and choir colleague Jimmy Bilsbury are overflowing with distorted wah-wah heavy rock guitars, transcendental grooves and commercial pop tunes.
But sadly the one and only Megaton album, originally released in 1971 by Decca, was simply lost in the mass of new releases at the time, first landing on bargain counters and then advancing to become a sought-after classic and fetches astronomical prices today. The beautiful zeitgeisty-psychedelic cover collage with the still very young Boney M. singer Liz Mitchell is absolutely cult-worthy too.
Propably the rarest Deram record, this mega obscure and mega rare Megaton UK LP recorded by Les Humphries and Jimmy Bilsbury, the co-author and lead singer of the Les Humphries Singers, who sank into poverty and was found dead in a sleazy hotel in Bonn in 2003. But beware: This is NOT an easy listening record but a absolute killer album! Together with a bunch of unknown musicians this one-off studio project contains vintage hard'n'heavy exploitation rockers in the vein of Led Zeppelin, Free and Rolling Stones.
