Last Planet I Kissed

Yesterday, while I was catching up on some "Life On Mars" episodes (US version, not the original UK one), I heard the song "Last Planet I Kissed". They used it to end the episode... I immediately liked it so I thought "Hey, I'm going to find more about this band": Sebastian Grace and the Electric Insects (and not just because he's called Sebastian..)

And I found that actually, it's a completely fictionnal one. They only created it for the show. Am impressed. Really impressed  'cause I really think this song could have been a hit in the 70's. It sounds so Marc Bolan & T-Rex, Kiss and all the others. I'm impressed by the quality and efforts put in creating a song that would only be featured in an episode, it would have been so simple to just use one existing song.. Here it is:

And here's what can be found on the web:

William Garret Conway (played by Cheyenne Jackson) was born May 9, 1946 and is a FICTIONAL American glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Sebastian Grace. The FICTIONAL bio for ABC publicity purposes follows:

Every once in a while a band comes along, and this was just such a band. Sebastian Grace and The Electric Insects epitomized the art of living fast and fading faster. Riding to prominence on the backwash of the British Glam Rock Invasion, Grace filled the recording industry's need for a cross dressing rocker who didn't have an English accent.

In 1973 they released their only single "The Last Planet I kissed" which peaked at #27 on the Billboard charts, while the B-Side "Martians On My Mind" only made it as high as #137.

Soon after their album was released, the listening public universally agreed that they shouldn't have bothered and the band split with Grace, declaring that he had "gotten weird."

Sebastian spent the next year consuming massive amounts of psychedelic mushrooms and recording nature sounds for a solo album titled "Cosmic Background Radiation: Hymnals For A Rocket Girl" that was never released, but has floated through the engineering community as a bootleg described as both "ahead of its time" and "total crap" depending on the listener's state of sobriety.

A portrayal this little known "One-Hit Wonder" is depicted on the ABC TV show "Life On Mars," along with a remastered version of his only hit "The Last Planet I Kissed."

If you don't know "Life On Mars", more info on the dedicated Wiki and on ABC's Official Page. Just click on "The starter kit", you'll know more ;-)