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2	* BlackSheepHit: "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'', which is a lot softer and more melodic than their usual style, became a fluky breakthrough hit for a band whose previous albums are full of weird, abrasive proto-metal songs. [[Series/SaturdayNightLive It's also one of their few songs to feature the cowbell]].
3	* CreatorKiller: Their fourteenth studio album ''Curse of the Hidden Mirror'' flopped so hard because of lackluster sales, negative reviews and poor relations that led to the band being dropped by their label, Sanctuary Records. They didn't record a studio album or hold a record deal until 2019, when the band announced a deal with Frontiers Music in July 2019, releasing a new studio album under that label in October 2020.
4	* DevelopmentHell: Sandy Pearlman wrote the bulk of ''Imaginos'' before he even ''met'' the future members of [=BOC=]. It was initially to be released immediately after ''Secret Treaties'', but it kept getting pushed back due to CreativeDifferences. After Albert Bouchard quit the band in 1982, he recorded it himself with the intent of releasing it as a solo album, but Creator/ColumbiaRecords balked and [[ExecutiveMeddling insisted]] it be billed as a [=BOC=] album - leaving it in limbo for another six years until it was released with vocal overdubs from Buck and Eric and a ''massive'' number of session musicians billed as "The Guitar Orchestra of the State of Imaginos" - including two songs with lead vocals by non-members - one, the ''title track'', featuring songwriter and future [=BOC=] bassist Jon Rogers, and another by Joe Cerisano, a session vocalist best known for recording [=KFC=] jingles and singing lead on "Hands Across America". And on top of all ''that'', the published album had the tracks out of order. Bouchard would eventually release his own version of the album, under the name ''Re Imaginos'', in 2020.
5	* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason ''Imaginos'' was released in abridged format (the band wanted to release at least two [=CDs'=] worth of material) and out of order. The internal chronology of the tracks is not exactly clear, but [[http://listserv.ispnetinc.net/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0009C&L=BOC-L&E=0&P=48198&B=--&T=text%2Fplain one suggestion]] is:
6	-->1. Les Invisibles
7	-->2. Imaginos
8	-->3. Del Rio's Song
9	-->4. Blue Öyster Cult
10	-->5. Astronomy
11	-->6. I Am the One You Warned Me Of
12	-->7. In the Presence of Another World
13	-->8. The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria
14	-->9. Magna of Illusion
15	* MisattributedSong: There's a [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/{{Music}} strange misconception in some corners of the Internet]], shared by a [[http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Ballroom-Blitz-lyrics-Blue-Oyster-Cult/6F0B4EAD534CAA4648256E6700094C2C surprising number of lyrics archives]], that the Music/BlueOysterCult recorded "Ballroom Blitz". The fact that British glam-rockers the Music/{{Sweet}} recorded this and had the hit single does not stop it being attributed to the BOC. Nor does the fact it was written by another songwriting team [[note]]Chinn and Chapman[[/note]] stop it being credited to Eric Bloom and Donald Roeser. OK, it ''sounds'' like something the BOC might have recorded or at least covered live - but they've never been anywhere near it. Consider the opening lyrics:
16	-->Are you ready, Steve? Aha.
17	-->Andy? Yeah! Mick? OK.
18	-->Alright, fellas, let's '''go!'''!
19	Strange for a band whose members are called Eric, Buck (actually Donald), Allen, Albert and Joe. Mick (Tucker), Andy (Scott) and Steve (Priest) are, in reality, the first names of the Sweet (not counting Brian Connolly, who is the one singing).
20	* PromotedFanboy:
21	** In 1974, John Shirley wrote the novel ''Transmaniacon'', deriving its title from a song on BOC's debut album. 20 years later, the band recruited him as their principal lyricist for "Heaven Forbid" and "Curse of the Hidden Mirror", as well as the band's two non-instrumental songs on the ''Bad Channels'' soundtrack album, released in 1992 ("Demon's Kiss" and "The Horsemen Arrive"). He appears yet again on their 2020 release, ''The Symbol Remains''.
22	** The entire band counts as this, being fans of Creator/MichaelMoorcock -- and then collaborating with him on an album.
23	* ReclusiveArtist: Album cover artist Bill Gawlik fell off the face of the earth between the release of ''Tyranny and Mutation'' and ''Secret Treaties'', and no one associated with the band has kept in contact with him. The front and back covers of the band's first two albums are the only known artwork of Gawlik's to exist.
24	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
25	** They were originally pegged to write the entire soundtrack to ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'', but in the end only one was used, that being "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars." The other songs they'd written were later put on their own albums.
26	** As mentioned above, ''Imaginos'' was supposed to be a double album.
27	** Sandy Perlman assigned dynamic stage names to each individual band member, but Buck was the only one who kept his. In particular, Eric would have been "Jesse Python" and Albert would have been "Prince Omega".

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