On their 1977 album Ra, American progressive rock group Utopia also adapted " Mountaintop / Sunrise ," in a rock arrangement, as the introduction to the album's opening song, " Communion With The Sun.

Some tracks from an abandoned album dedicated to Sun Ra and Ray Charles have also surfaced.

Death metal band Nile referenced Sekhmet in the title track of their album " Ithyphallic ", and in " The Eye Of Ra " on their album Those Whom the Gods Detest.

Spacemen 3 covered " Starship " on their 1987 album " The Perfect Prescription ," crediting it to both MC5 and Sun Ra.

Highlights of these include 1975's Timewind, 1976's Moondawn ( his first album to feature the Moog synthesiser ), 1979's Dune, and 1995's double-album In Blue ( which featured one long track called Return To The Tempel with electric guitar contributions from his friend Manuel Göttsching of Ash Ra Tempel ).

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One is a 1965 album by the jazz musician Sun Ra.

The back cover describes it as an " album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra ".

The album was originally released as The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, with a B / W sleeve designed by Ra himself.

Marshall Allen described the recording of the album in John F Szwed's biography of Ra, Space Is The Place ;

A very early example ( 1974 ) of the relation between psychedelic rock and the music that would eventually be known as Goa trance is The Cosmic Jokers ' ( a collaboration between Ash Ra Tempel and Klaus Schulze ) highly experimental and psychedelic album " Galactic Supermarket ", which features occasional 4 / 4 rhythms intertwined with elements from psychedelic rock, analog synthesizers and occasionally tribal-esque drum patterns.

Also Ra Scion has his first solo album known as " Live and Learn " and he announced his new solo album known as " Victor Shade " with producer MTK and it is currently available at his own website, but other online music store will be released sometime in 2010.

* Duality ( Ra album ), a 2005 album by the rock band Ra

The bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Sand ( Golem album ) and Cosmic Jokers ( all linked by collaboration with Klaus Schulze ), would follow suit in the years to come.

* Ra ( Eloy album ), 1988

* Sun Ra: Live at Montreux ( Sun Ra album ) ( CD / 2xCD / LP / 2xLP )

The final track on the album, " Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon ( Utopia Planitia )" earned a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, and the album was certified gold on April 10, 2006.

Newly clean, Erickson created the 2003 album Hex Angel: Utopia / Dystopia.

Todd Rundgren recorded a version of " Do Ya " with his group Utopia on their album Another Live, Cheap Trick recorded a version of " California Man " on their Heaven Tonight album, whilst Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols admitted that one of the guitar riffs on " God Save The Queen " was inspired by that on " Fire Brigade ".

The Flaming Lips song " Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon ( Utopia Planitia )" was released in 2002 on the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

* Trivia ( album ), a 1986 album by Utopia

Todd Rundgren's band Utopia recorded a song titled " Hoi Polloi " on their 1980 album Deface the Music, in which all of the songs are written and performed in the style of The Beatles.

Despite its success, Frank Mertens left the band that year and was replaced in January 1985 by Ricky Echolette ( born Wolfgang Neuhaus, in Cologne on 7 August 1960 ), who was credited on the Afternoons in Utopia album.

In 1986, their second album, Afternoons in Utopia, was released and its first single " Dance With Me " was a Top 20 hit in Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and in remix form on the US Hot Maxi Singles chart, and reached the Top 30 in Austria, Italy and in the US Club Play chart.

In 1982, Todd Rundgren and his band released the self-titled album Utopia featuring one full LP of 10 songs and a second 12-inch disc with five bonus tracks and the same five tracks on the flip side.

Utopia Parkway is a 1999 album by Fountains of Wayne, released through Atlantic Records.

The album is named after a major street that connects the neighborhoods of Utopia, Beechhurst and several other neighborhoods in the Queens borough of New York City.

* Utopia ( Unexpect album ), 1999

* Utopia ( Utopia album ), 1982

* Utopia ( Axxis album ), 2009

Their next album Utopia, released on November 5, 2003, enlisted the help of Al Schmitt.

* " Lost in Space ", a song by Fountains of Wayne from the 1999 album Utopia Parkway

" Utopia ," a demo version of a song from the album, was made available on his MySpace blog.

* " Physical " was're-worked ' by the British electronic music duo Goldfrapp on the re-release of the single Utopia from their debut album Felt Mountain as U. K.

* " Xanadu ( A Vision in a Dream )", a song by Stormlord on the 2001 album At the Gates of Utopia