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The album had a Beatlesque sound, however, particularly in the song “Sub-Rosa Subway.” This, coupled with the lack of biographical details offered up by Klaatu, helped inspire a rumor concocted by Providence Journal reviewer Steve Smith in February 1977, that the album might be an anonymous project by the Beatles themselves. These rumors were fueled by a number of factors, including the fact that their album was released under Capitol Records, the mystery of missing artist and producer credits, and the fact that Klaatu’s vocal style and musical creativity could be considered similar to The Beatles. Rumours were started, in 1976, that the Beatles had recorded and released a new album under the pseudonym of “Klaatu”. The band elected to include no photos, no individual musician credits, and no biographical information in the album package all songs were simply listed as being written and published by “Klaatu.” (Note that this collective writing credit covered songs earlier credited solely to Long or to the team of Woloschuk and Tome – even though Tome was not actually a member of Klaatu.) The album was met with moderately positive reviews but by Christmas of that year, sales had stalled. Their first album, 3:47 EST (named Klaatu in the US as Capitol Records’ executives found the original title too obscure), was released in September 1976, in North America. Here’s more background on the whole episode from Wikipedia: I remember thinking at the time that this song, “Sub-Rosa Subway” had kind of a Beatles sound, but didn’t really think it was them. Who remembers the band Klaatu? Their 1976 album burst on the scene and got lots of attention for one simple reason: there was a rumor that it was actually done by a re-united Beatles, recording under a fake name to fool everyone.