World Of You is the first-ever complete anthology of the now legendary American band who recorded an unreleased, heavily Beatles-influenced album at Abbey Road in 1969.

 

This fascinating 2CD in digipak set includes The Aerovons's 'lost' album Resurrection (considered a lost Beatle-esque classic), along with outtakes, demos, alternative versions, solo recordings and eleven previously unissued tracks.

 

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After a locally-recorded demo attracted the interest of Capitol Records, The Aerovons – Beatles-obsessed teenagers from St. Louis, Missouri - persuaded the company to let them approach EMI with a view to recording at Abbey Road.

 

Three separate visits to England followed, with an impressed EMI overseeing an Aerovons album, recorded March-June 1969 in between the group's trips to Carnaby Street and starstruck encounters with various Beatles and Hollies members.

 

Two singles – including the stunning 'World Of You' – were issued in the UK, but Parlophone cancelled the album's release at test pressing stage after the group suffered personnel issues that left them unable to promote it.

 

Leader Tom Hartman went on to record as a solo act before returning to his studies, but The Aerovons remained a dropped stitch in time until their lost-in-action album was finally disinterred and, as Resurrection, given a long-overdue release by the rpm label in 2003.

 

Greeted by ecstatic reviews, ‘Resurrection’ belatedly established The Aerovons as one of the forerunners of the 70s power pop genre, their heavily Beatles-influenced sound residing in the same ballpark as the likes of fellow Anglophiles Nazz and The Raspberries.