Once glance at the grammatically-challenged and logic-dodging sleeve notes on the 1971 Space Hymns album will convince you that Mister Ram (Kimberley Barrington Frost to his Earth mum) was a couple of coins short of a hexagram.
Sounding like a Norwegian Eurovision entry on Oh Mister, a druggy New Seekers on And The Whole World, and Reg Presley singing over a Unicorn-era Marc Bolan backing on Qaser One, this was a regular prog oddity.
The future 10cc provided punchy production and some meaty beaty backing though.
Frost was born in Sheffield and worked as a PT instructor in the army during his National Service. He was working in a central heating business in Scotland when inspired to assume the mantle of the Egyptian Pharaoh (of whom he believed himself a reincarnation) and pursue a musical career.
Ramases embarked on a pop career in earnest in 1968, involving his wife Dorothy, renamed for the Egyptian goddess of cures and protection, Selket.
Sadly, Space Hymns (1971) and its more skeletal and downbeat follow-up album, Glass Top Coffin (1975), failed to deliver widespread recognition.
It would be nice to report that Ram is thrusting religious pamphlets at passers-by these days, but he was plagued by mental health issues and apparently took his own life in Felixstowe in 1978.
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