Coordinates	12°51′6″N39°57′49″N
name	Adamski
background	non_performing_personnel
birth name	Adam Paul Tinley
birth place	New Forest, England
alias	Adam Sky
birth date	December 04, 1967
genre	Acid house
occupation	Record producer
years active	1979–present
label	MCA Records
associated acts	Diskord Datkord, Mark Tinley, Seal, Guru Josh
website	}}

Adamski (born Adam Paul Tinley, 4 December 1967, in the New Forest, England) is an English dance music producer, prominent at the time of acid house for his tracks "N-R-G" and "Killer" (a collaboration with Seal).

Career

Tinley performed with his brother Mark Tinley, and Johnny Slut of the band Specimen, as Diskord Datkord. The band was signed to SOHO records and released one single. The brothers Tinley continued to work together even after the demise of Diskord Datkord. In the late 1980s, Adam Tinley adopted his stage name after the UFO enthusiast, George Adamski.

Adamski was discovered by entrepreneur Phil Smith who ran the infamous 'Le Petit Prince' restaurant in London's NW5. He introduced Adamski's music to the 'rave scene' and got him a deal with MCA Records, producing the first rave record on MCA called ''Live And Direct''. The artist enjoyed modest success with this first release, which was a collection of tracks recorded live at various venues in England and Ibiza. It contained a short, live version of his first single, "NRG", as well as "I Dream of You", which appeared on a free 4 track 7" vinyl single given away with the music paper, Record Mirror in 1989. The cover of the single "NRG" featured a mocked up Lucozade bottle with the 'Lucozade' word replaced with 'N-R-G'. Legend has it that clubbers started riots when the record was first played out at the Shoom night club in 1989.

Commenting on the comparisons between rave culture and the earlier punk rock scene, Adamski said in 1990, "I liked the energy and the visual side of punk, but it was all just saying 'no, no, no, no,' whereas now everybody's saying 'yes, yes, yes.' I much prefer the positivity thing we have now, plus it's a much easier environment to score in."

Adamski toured many clubs with his portable keyboard set up, playing short sets, with an MC, Daddy Chester, and later with Seal. In front of his keyboard was a yellow car number plate with the words 'ADAMSKI' on it. Early versions of future singles "Killer" and "Future Love Paradise" were played on some of the Seal dates. One date of particular note was at Cambridge Corn Exchange, in early 1990, when Seal leapt on to a smaller, lower catwalk stage, the coins in his pockets all spilled out, showering some of the front row with cash causing a fight.

With the entrepreneur Steven Machat overseeing his career, Adamski discovered Seal in Beethoven studios and together they made "Killer", the signature song of his career. The song featured a collaboration with his brother Mark as programmer and sound engineer. "Killer" crossed over into the mainstream music charts, becoming a massive worldwide hit. It is featured on the album ''Doctor Adamski's Musical Pharmacy'' which also contains the follow-up singles "The Space Jungle" (Adamski singing Elvis' "All Shook Up" to a dance backing) and "Flashback Jack". Pop music artist George Michael later successfully married the bass line of "Killer" to the melody of The Temptations' "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" on a live album featuring the surviving members of Queen.

Adamski's second album was ''Naughty''. It featured a collaboration with Nina Hagen on "Get Your Body!" and plenty of club tunes, expanding from the artist's acid house roots into the pop and rock genres. The cover art featured Tinley with his head shaven bare, hugging an umbrella. Commercially, this album was not a big success.

Adamski's third album was issued in late 1998 on the ZTT Records label, famous for producing acts such as Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Art of Noise. Its title was ''Adamski's Thing'' and the style followed the trend started with ''Naughty'', with lots of guitars, strings, raw vocals and introspective lyrics, but maintaining a rhythmic dance sensibility. The album spawned two singles, "Intravenous Venus" and "One Of the People".

In 2000, Tinley released his last single as Adamski Products Inc., "In the City". The song charted in Italy, but did little business elsewhere. In the early 2000s, Tinley decided to assume a new identity: For a while, he began to produce music as Adam Sky. As Adam Sky, his songs included collaborations with the musician Danny Williams. In 2007, he released a remake of The Pop Group's 1979 single "We Are All Prostitutes" with Mark Stewart which appeared on a number of compilations.

He currently lives in Berlin, Germany with his daughter Bluebell Williams Tinley. Adamski has recently set up his own label (Prostitute Records). His single "ApeX" was released on Kitsuné Music in 2006. Recently, Adamski/Sky has been working closely with VJ Ladypat, and the London based rapper, Niyi. In 2009, Adamski began to release more material on Shir Khan's Exploited record label. Simultaneously, the label 'Do It Yourself Italy' released singles by "Adamski Products Inc". Adamski is currently reworking his 1989 album, '' Liveanddirect'' as Vile Acid Rent.

Discography

Albums

''Liveandirect'' (1989)

''Doctor Adamski's Musical Pharmacy'' (1990)- UK #8

''Naughty'' (1992)

''Adamski's Thing'' (1998)

''Killer - the best of Adamski'' (1999)

''Mutant Pop (2000)''

Singles

"N-R-G" - #12 UK

"Killer" (featuring Seal) - #1 UK, #5 World

"The Space Jungle" - #7 UK

"Flashback Jack" - #46 UK

"Sunday Roast"

"Never Goin' Down" (duet with Jimi Polo) / "Born To Be Alive" (duet with Soho) - #51 UK

"Get Your Body" (duet with Nina Hagen) - #68 UK

"Back To Front" - #63 UK

"One Of The People" (billed as Adamski's Thing) - #56

"In the City"

"Already Out There" #4 Italy

As Adam Sky

"Larynx" (feat Shafiqe)

"Hope Fiendz ep"

"Apex"

"Galactic Lover" (with the World Domination)

"We are Prostitutes" (feat. Mark Stewart)

"Babydoll"

"The Imperious Urge" (feat. Danny Williams)

"Circle Jerk" (with Zoo Brazil)

Remixes

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - "Stock Exchange" (2003)

Mignon - ("Demons of Love") (2004)

References

External links

[ Adamski biography at Allmusic]

Discography at Discogs.com

Website on archive.

Adam Sky's MySpace page

ZTT Records official site

ZTT Records official store

Ian Peel: ''Warriors of pop, 21 years of ZTT'' Record Collector, September 2004 (copy at ''Zang Tuum Tumb and all that'') Article about ZTT's history, contains info on Adamski

Interviewed in Kool Magazine

Category:1967 births Category:Acid house musicians Category:English electronic musicians Category:English house musicians Category:English record producers Category:English techno musicians Category:English dance musicians Category:English male singers Category:Living people Category:ZTT Records artists

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Coordinates	12°51′6″N39°57′49″N
Name	Nina Hagen
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Catharina Hagen
Birth date	March 11, 1955
Origin	East Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Genre	Punk rockPost-punkNew wave Gothic rockGlam rockNeue Deutsche WelleGospel
Occupation	Singer, Activist
Years active	1971–present
Associated acts	Automobil The Nina Hagen Band Apocalyptica
Label	Columbia Records Mercury Records
Website	nina-hagen.com}}

Nina Hagen (born 11 March 1955) is a German singer and actress.

Early years

Hagen was born as Catharina Hagen in the former East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of Hans Hagen (also known as Hans Oliva-Hagen), a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen, an actress and singer. Her paternal grandfather died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (one of her great-grandparents was Jewish). Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and growing up she saw her father infrequently. At age four, she began to study ballet, and was considered an opera prodigy by the time she was nine.

When Hagen was 11, her mother married Wolf Biermann, an anti-establishment singer-songwriter. Biermann's political views later influenced young Hagen.

Hagen left school at age sixteen, and went to Poland, where she began her career. After that, she returned to Germany and joined the cover band Fritzens Dampferband (''Fritzen's Steamboat Band'', together with Achim Mentzel and others). She added songs by Janis Joplin and Tina Turner to the "allowable" set lists during shows.

From 1972–73, Hagen enrolled in the crash-course performance program at The Central Studio for Light Music in East Berlin. Upon graduation, she formed the band Automobil.

Music career

1970s

In East Germany, she performed with the band Automobil, becoming one of the country's best-known young stars. Her most famous song from the early part of her career was "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen" ("You forgot the colour film") in 1974. However, her musical career in East Germany was cut short when she and her mother left the country in 1976, following the expulsion of her stepfather.

The circumstances surrounding the family's emigration were exceptional: Biermann was granted permission to perform a televised concert in Cologne, but denied permission to re-cross the border to his home country. Hagen submitted an application to leave the country. In it, she claimed to be Biermann's biological daughter, and threatened to become the next Wolf Biermann if not allowed to rejoin her father. Just four days later her request was granted, and she settled in Hamburg, where she was signed to a CBS-affiliated record label. Her label advised her to acclimate herself to Western culture through travel, and she arrived in London during the height of the punk rock movement. Hagen was quickly taken up by a circle that included The Slits and the Sex Pistols; Johnny Rotten was a particular admirer.

Back in Germany by mid-1977, Hagen formed the Nina Hagen Band in West Berlin's Kreuzberg district. In 1978 they released their self-titled debut album, which included the single "TV-Glotzer" (a cover of "White Punks on Dope" by The Tubes, though with entirely different German lyrics), and ''Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo'', about West Berlin's then-notorious Berlin Zoologischer Garten station. The album also included a version of "Rangehn" ("Go For It"), a song she had previously recorded in East Germany, but with different music.

According to reviewer Fritz Rumler:

''… she thrusts herself into the music, aggressively, directly, furiously, roars in the most beautiful opera alto, then, through shrieks and squeals, precipitates into luminous soprano heights, she parodies, satirises, and howls on stage like a dervish''.

The album gained significant attention throughout Germany and abroad, both for its hard rock sound and for Hagen's theatrical vocals, far different from the straightforward singing of her East German recordings. However, relations between Hagen and the other band members deteriorated over the course of the subsequent European tour, and Hagen decided to leave the band in 1979, though she was still under contract to produce a second album. This LP, ''Unbehagen'' (which in German also means ''discomfort'' or ''unease''), was eventually produced with the band recording their tracks in Berlin and Hagen recording the vocals in Los Angeles, California. It included the single "African Reggae" and a cover of Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number". The other band members sans Hagen, soon developed a successful independent musical career as Spliff.

Meanwhile, Hagen's public persona was steadily creating media uproar. She became infamous for an appearance on an Austrian evening talk show called ''Club 2'', on 9 August 1979, on the topic of youth culture, when she demonstrated (while clothed, but explicitly) various female masturbation positions and became embroiled in a heated argument with another panelist. The talk show host had to step down following this controversy.

She also acted with Dutch rocker Herman Brood and singer Lene Lovich in the 1979 film ''Cha Cha''.

1980s

A European tour with a new band in 1980 was cancelled, and Hagen turned to the United States. A limited-edition 10-inch EP was released on vinyl that summer in the U.S. Two songs from her first album ''Nina Hagen Band'' were on the A side, and two songs from her second album ''Unbehagen'' were on the B-side. All four songs were sung in German.

In late 1980, Hagen discovered she was pregnant, broke up with the father-to-be Ferdinand Karmelk, and moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter, Cosma Shiva Hagen, was born in Santa Monica on 17 May 1981. In 1982, Hagen released her first English-language album: ''NunSexMonkRock'', a dissonant mix of punk, funk, reggae, and opera. She then went on a world tour with the No Problem Orchestra.

In 1983, she released the album ''Angstlos'' and a minor European tour. By this time, Hagen's public appearances were becoming stranger and frequently included discussions of God, UFOs, her social and political beliefs, animal rights and vivisection, and claims of alien sightings. The English version of ''Angstlos,'' ''Fearless,'' generated two major club hits in America, "Zarah" (a cover of the Zarah Leander (#45 USA) song "Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehen") and the disco/punk/opera song, "New York New York" (#9 USA).

Her 1985 album ''Nina Hagen In Ekstasy'' fared less well, but did generate club hits with "Universal Radio" (#39 USA) and a cover of "Spirit In The Sky" and also featured a 1979 recording of her hardcore punk take on Frank Sinatra's ''My Way'', which had been one of her signature live tunes in previous years. She performed songs from this album during the 1985 version of Rock in Rio. Her contract with CBS over, she released the ''Punk Wedding'' EP independently in 1987, a celebration of her marriage to a 17-year-old-punk nicknamed 'Iroquois'. It followed an independent 1986 one-off single with Lene Lovich, the anthemic ''Don't Kill The Animals''. In 1989, Hagen released the album ''Nina Hagen'' which was backed up by another German tour.

In 1989 she had a relationship with Frank Chevallier from France, with whom she has a son, Otis Chevallier-Hagen.

1990s

In the 1990s, Hagen lived in Paris with her daughter Cosma Shiva and son Otis. In 1991 she toured Europe in support of her new album ''Street''. In 1992 Hagen became the host of a TV show on RTLplus. Also in the same year (1992) she collaborated with Adamski on the European smash and minor UK hit single "Get Your Body". The following year, she released ''Revolution Ballroom''. In 1994 Laramy Smith recorded Nina at Ferber Studios in Paris, for the "Somebody Help Me" project, a song to aid the homeless worldwide available at laramysmith.com. In 1994, Nina starred in the acclaimed San Francisco Goethe Institut's "The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber", playing the singer version of "Anita" alongside dancer Jennifer Pieren who portrayed the other "professions" of "Anita". Also, her voice was heard on the Freaky Fukin Weirdoz single "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick". 1995 brought the German-language album ''Freud Euch'' appeared, recorded in English as ''BeeHappy'' in 1996. Nina returned to San Francisco to star in another San Francisco Goethe Institut show, "Hannusen, Hitler's Jewish Clarvoyant." Hagen also collaborated with electronic music composer Christopher Franke, along with Rick Palombi (credited as Rick Jude) on "Alchemy of Love", the theme song for the film ''Tenchi Muyo! in Love''. In May 1996, she married David Lynn, who is fifteen years younger, but divorced him in the beginning of 2000. In 1997 she collaborated with German hip hop musician Thomas D.

In 1998, Hagen became the host of a weekly science fiction show on the British Sci-Fi Channel, in addition to embarking on another tour of Germany. In 1999, she released the devotional album ''Om Namah Shivay'', which was distributed exclusively online and included an unadulterated musical version of the Hare Krishna mantra. She also provided vocals to "Witness" and "Bereit" on KMFDM's ''Adios''.

Also in 1998 she recorded the official club anthem (Eisern Union !) for FC Union Berlin and four versions were issued on a CD single by G.I.B Music and Distribution GmbH.

In 1999, she played the role of Celia Peachum in ''The Threepenny Opera'' by Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht, alongside Max Raabe. She also regularly performs songs by Kurt Weill, Hans Eisler and Paul Dessau set to Brecht's texts.

2000s

In 2000, her song ''Schön ist die Welt'' became the official song of Expo 2000. Another cover of a Zarah Leander song "Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt" was a minor hit the same year. The album ''The Return of the Mother'' was released in February 2001, accompanied by another German tour. In 2001 she collaborated with Rosenstolz and Marc Almond on the single ''Total eclipse/Die schwarze Witwe'' that reached #22 in Germany. On 14 October 2002 Nina hit Moscow by coming there with her concert, while interviews with the eccentric singer were aired on many TV-channels.

Hagen dubbed the voice of Sally in the German release of Tim Burton's ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'', and she has also done voice work on the movie ''Hot Dogs'' by Michael Schoemann. Hagen has been featured on songs by other bands, for instance on Oomph!'s song "Fieber". She did a cover of Rammstein's "Seemann" with Apocalyptica. Later albums include ''Big Band Explosion'', in which she sang numerous swing covers with her then husband, Danish singer and performer, Lucas Alexander. This was followed by ''Heiß'', a greatest hits album. Her most recent album, ''Journey to The Snow Queen'', is more of an audio book—she reads the ''Snow Queen'' fairy tale with Tchaikovsky's ''The Nutcracker'' in the background. In 2005 Nina Hagen headlined the Drop Dead Festival in New York City. Hagen has been an active protester against the war in Iraq. In 2006 she was a part of the Popstars team. She is a vegetarian. In August 2009 she was baptized in the Protestant Reformed church of Schüttorf. On October 21 after seven years passed she visited Moscow again. Her latest album, ''Personal Jesus'' was released July 16, 2010, after a four year lapse.

Discography

''See: Nina Hagen discography''

Acting career

Filmography

+ Actor
! Year	! Film	! Role	Notes
2004		The Queen

Quotations

''Both of my parents were atheists, and I found the way to God all alone on my own. You have to invite him, so that he shows up.'' Asked if she was happy, she replied: ''Of course, I'm a family member of Christ and I have a Lord. He marched ahead of me and showed me the way.''

References

External links

Seltene Live/Video Aufnahmen von Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen discography

Nina Hagen Electronic Shrine

Trouser Press Nina Hagen Discography

Nina Hagen - MySpace page

Nina Hagen on Europopmusic.eu (English)

''Nina Hagen:'' Interview (German)

''Nina Hagen vertreibt Wissenschaftler aus Talkshow Maischberger'' (German)

Drop Dead Magazine with issue 0 with Nina Hagen on the cover as well as a large interview inside

1979 ''Club 2'' talk show with loose translation in ''More info''

Nina Hagen interviewed on Swedish TV during the 80s (English with Swedish subtitles)

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Coordinates	12°51′6″N39°57′49″N
name	George Adamski
birth date	April 17, 1891
birth place	Poland
death date	April 23, 1965
death place	Maryland, USA
occupation	Self-described "wandering teacher"Ufologist
organization	Royal Order of Tibet,International Get Acquainted Program,George Adamski Foundation
website
footnotes	}}

George Adamski (April 17, 1891 – April 23, 1965) was a Polish-born American citizen who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed ships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien "Space Brothers", and to have taken flights with them. The first of the so-called contactees of the 1950s, he styled himself to be a "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher", though his claims were met with skepticism.

Adamski had previously written a science fiction book in 1949 with a space travel theme, ''Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus'', published by Leonard-Freefield Co of Los Angeles. In 1953 he took some of the fictional material from that book and presented it as fact within the best selling ''Flying Saucers Have Landed'', co-written with Desmond Leslie.

Early years

Adamski was born on April 17, 1891, in Poland. At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to America and settled in New York City. From 1913 to 1916, beginning at the age of 22, he was a soldier in the 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment K-Troop fighting at the Mexican border during the Pancho Villa Expedition. In 1917, he married. Adamski then moved west, doing maintenance work in Yellowstone National Park and working in an Oregon flour mill. While in Laguna Beach, Adamski founded the "Royal Order of Tibet," which held its meetings in the "Temple of Scientific Philosophy." In 1940, Adamski and some close friends of his moved to a ranch near California's Palomar Mountain, where they dedicated their time to studying and farming. In 1944, with funding from Mrs. Alice K. Wells, a student of Adamski, they purchased of land on Palomar Mountain, where they built a new home called Palomar Garden and a new restaurant called Palomar Gardens Cafe.

Ufology

On October 9, 1946, during a meteor shower, Adamski and some friends claimed that while they were at the Palomar Gardens campground, they witnessed a large cigar-shaped "mother ship." In 1947, Adamski took a photograph of what he claimed was the 1946 cigar-shaped "mother ship" crossing in front of the moon over Palomar Gardens.

On May 29, 1950, Adamski took a photograph of what he alleged to be six unidentified objects in the sky, which appeared to be flying in formation. Adamski's May 29, 1950, UFO photograph was depicted in an August 1978 commemorative stamp issued by the island nation of Grenada in order to mark the "Year of UFOs."

On November 20, 1952, Adamski and several friends were in the Colorado Desert near the town of Desert Center, California, when they purportedly saw a large submarine-shaped object hovering in the sky. Believing that the ship was looking for him, Adamski is said to have left his friends and to have headed away from the main road. Shortly afterwards, according to Adamski's accounts, a scout ship made of a type of translucent metal landed close to him, and its pilot, a Venusian called Orthon, disembarked and sought him out.

Adamski described Orthon as being a medium-height humanoid with long blond hair and tanned skin wearing reddish-brown shoes, though, as Adamski added, "his trousers were not like mine." Adamski said Orthon communicated with him via telepathy and through hand signals. During their conversation, Orthon is said to have warned of the dangers of nuclear war and to have arranged for Adamski to be taken on a trip to see the solar system, including the planet Venus, the location where Mrs. Adamski had been reincarnated. Adamski said that Orthon had refused to allow himself to be photographed and instead asked Adamski to provide him with a blank photographic plate, which Adamski says that he gave him. When Orthon left, Adamski said that he and George Hunt Williamson were able to take plaster casts of Orthon's footprints, which contained mysterious symbols.

Orthon is said to have returned the plate to Adamski on December 13, 1952, at which point it was found to contain new strange symbols. It was during this meeting that Adamski is said to have taken a now famous UFO photograph using his telescope. Some claim that the picture just shows a streetlight.

In 1954, Desmond Leslie is said to have witnessed several UFOs with Adamski while visiting him in California. He described one of them in a letter he sent to his wife while he was in San Diego:

Hoax letter

In 1957 Adamski was the victim of a hoax letter sent by James W. Moseley. The letter was signed by the fictional "R.E. Straith," a representative of the nonexistent "Cultural Exchange Committee" of the U.S. State Department. Straith wrote that the U.S. Government knew that Adamski had actually spoken to extraterrestrials in a California desert in 1952, and that a group of highly placed government officials planned on public corroboration of Adamski's story. Adamski was proud of this endorsement and showed it around to bolster his claims .

In May 1959, Adamski received a letter from the head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society informing him that she had been contacted by officials at the palace of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and "that the Queen would like to receive you." Adamski informed a London newspaper about the invitation, which prompted the court and cabinet to request that the queen cancel her meeting with Adamski, but the queen went ahead with the meeting, saying, "A hostess cannot slam the door in the face of her guests." After the meeting, Dutch Aeronautical Association president Cornelis Kolff said, "The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject." Wire services such as United Press International and Reuters sent the story out, and newspapers around the world ran it. On May 19, 1959, ''The Straits Times'' ran the story. The Sydney Morning Herald ran it on May 20, 1959, along with an image titled "The 'Moon Man.'" On May 21, 1959, the ''Rockford Register'' ran the article, and the Los Angeles Times ran it on May 27, 1959.

Adamski said that the photographs of the far side of the moon that were taken by the Soviet lunar probe Luna 3 in 1959 were fake and that there were cities, trees, and snow-capped mountains there instead.

Declining reputation and death

In 1962, Adamski's reputation began to decline after he announced that he would be going to a conference on the planet Saturn. In 1963, Adamski claimed that he had a secret meeting with Pope John XXIII and that he had received a "Golden Medal of Honor" from the Pope. Adamski, at the request of the extraterrestrials he was allegedly in contact with, met with the Pope in order to request a "final agreement" from him because of his decision not to communicate directly with any extraterrestrials, and also to offer him a liquid substance in order to save him from the gastric enteritis that he suffered from, which would later become acute peritonitis.

On April 23, 1965, at the age of 74, Adamski died of a heart attack in Maryland.

Criticism

His claims inspired a British copycat who went under the name Cedric Allingham.

The most common arguments contrary to Adamski's claims forwarded by skeptics is that the planet Venus is unable to sustain intelligent life owing to its environmental conditions. These conditions include an atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface which is 92 times that of Earth, clouds composed of sulfuric acid, and an average surface temperature of 461.85 °C. Of course, no one could live under the surface of the planet, and as a result most consider Adamski's claims to be a scientific impossibility. It should be noted however, that the alleged Venusian visitors stated they lived in underground cities, thus not being exposed to hostile conditions on the surface.

''Inside The Space Ships'' is considered by some to be a "remake" of a science fiction book, ghost written by Lucy McGinnis, entitled ''Pioneers of Space'' that Adamski wrote in 1949. His often-published photo of a flying saucer from 1952 has been identified (by the chairman of the British UFO organization in the 1970s) as the top of an Italian-made ice machine used in his café, a streetlight (see above), and the top of a chicken brooder. However, "Cecil B. de Mille's top trick photographer, Pev Marley, declared that if Adamski's pictures were fakes, they were the best he had ever seen, while in England 14 experts from the J. Arthur Rank company concluded that the object photographed was either real or a full-scale model."

Books

''Cosmic Philosophy'' (1961), self-published (reprinted 1972, Pine Hill Press OCLC 13371492)

''Flying Saucers Farewell'' (1961), Abelard-Schuman, OCLC 964949 (reprinted 1967 as ''[The Strange People, Powers, Events] Behind the Flying Saucer Mystery'', Warner Paperback Library, OCLC 4020003)

''Flying Saucers Have Landed'' (1953), British Book Centre, ISBN 978-0-85435-180-0; published simultaneously in the UK by Thomas Werner Laurie (Reprinted various times)

''Flying Saucers Have Landed'', revised and enlarged edition (1970), Neville Spearman, UK, ISBN

''Inside the Space Ships'' (1955), Abelard-Schuman, OCLC 543169 (Reprinted 1967 as ''Inside the Flying Saucers'', Warner Paperback Library, OCLC 1747128) Currently in print from the George Adamski Foundation

''Pioneers of Space: a Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus'' (1949), Leonard-Freefield, OCLC 4722893 (Reprinted 2008, Inner Light/Global Communications)

''Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East'' (1936), Royal Order of Tibet (reprinted 1974, 2000, Health Research)

Other publications

"Many mansions" (1955), SS&S; Publications, OCLC 45443779

"Petals of life: poems" (1937), OCLC 47304946

"Telenews" (1960-03-28), OCLC 79040262

"Telepathy: the Cosmic or Universal Language" (1958), s.n., OCLC 45443839

"Science of Life Study Course" (1964), self-published

George Adamski in popular culture

Literature

Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke referred to ufologists as suffering from ''Adamski's disease'' in his novel ''3001: The Final Odyssey''.

Music

British House musician Adamski, real name Adam Tinley, adopted the UFO enthusiast's surname as his stagename. Tinley is most notable for his 1990 hit single ''Killer'', which featured the vocals of the then-undiscovered singer Seal, and spent 4 weeks at number 1 in the United Kingdom.

Roleplaying games

Hunter: the Vigil's Task Force VALKYRIE includes a subgroup called Operation ADAMSKI, explicitly named after George Adamski, dedicated to producing and distributing misinformation about aliens and other "extra-normal entities" in order to hide the existence of such beings.

Video games

In the video game, Mega Man 9, there is a UFO-based enemy named Adamski. This is probably a reference to George Adamski.

In the game Disgaea in the optional "Prinny Commentary Mode" the commentator makes reference to Adamski UFO's.

References

Further reading

External links

George Adamski biography

Hallet, Marc, "Why I Can Say That Adamski Was A Liar", 2005

Overview of the early 1950s "Contactees," including Adamski

Coker, Rory, "Profiles in Pseudoscience: George Adamski!(brief outline of Adamski's life and claims; 2005)

Newscaster Frank Edwards on Adamski

Straith letter

Contactees I Have Known, by Long John Nebel, as told to Lloyd Malian

Past Masters — Way Up In the Middle of the Air

UFO Recording — 8 mm film by a United States government official named Madeline Rotterfor in the presence of Adamski and several witnesses, at Silver Spring, Maryland, on February 28, 1965.

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