Can you imagine a song featuring Sting (The Police) on vocals, alongside Steve Hillage (Gong), Gilli Smyth (Gong), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), Mike Howlett (Gong), Steve Broughton (Edgar Broughton Band) and others performing a high-energy protest song way back in 1978?

Well, it exists, and it’s called “Nuclear Waste.”

Lost to the mists of time and musical legend, Gonzo Multimedia is proud to release this 500-unit limited edition, 10” vinyl Picture Disc. Bringing back to life this lost piece of musical history which remarkably saw the only pre-Police track featuring Sting and a hippy supergroup officially released at the time.

This 10” Picture Disc is will rapidly become a collector’s item that will suddenly show up on eBay at silly prices. Make sure you order yours today!

Now for the history lesson.

Despite the claim that all the musicians involved in the 1976/7 punk explosion were raw amateurs, Andy Summers (guitarist with Eric Burdon’s New Animals), Stuart Copeland (drummer with Curved Air), and Gordon Sumner aka Sting (a bass player/singer from the Geordie jazz rock fusion band Last Exit) came together and formed one of the most successful new wave bands of them all: The Police.

However, before all that happened and the nascent three-piece had released any music, they teamed up with Mike Howlett from Gong in a punk band called Strontium 90. This project was unsurprisingly like a punky version of some of the latter Gong’s more rhythmic pieces, but that wasn’t the only pre-fame track with which Geordie bassist Gordon Sumner, now renamed Sting, was involved.

“Nuclear Waste” is an anti-nuclear song originally released in 1978 on Virgin Records. The first edition of the single (a limited pressing of 500 copies) quickly sold out at anti-nuclear protests in London in 1978 and is now highly collectable. Then it became lost to the mists of time…until now!