Michael Schenker wants to play a final show with UFO.
“I don’t know if Phil’s physically fit,” the guitarist recently told Rock Candy magazine. “But I’ll certainly think about a last UFO show if the possibility arises.”
Still, Phil Mogg said on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk that UFO won’t have a final show. The singer noted, “Oh, there’s so many permutations on that one. Not really, because I can’t see it happening in such a way that it would be worthy of doing.”
Mogg continued, “It would have to be pretty damn good. And if you stick something out there and it falls below par, then the audience, people who come along will be disappointed.”
The rocker also added, “I’d be disappointed if it was below something else. And I think that’s the chance that I really wouldn’t want to take unless it was, like, ‘Yeah, this is happening. That’s great.’ You might go, ‘Oh, well, I’ll give that a shot.’ But I can’t see it coming together — I can’t see the stars aligning. So, yeah, it would be too difficult.”
UFO has officially ended their career after over 50 years. “I think it’s come to a conclusion,” Mogg said in an April chat with Ultimate Classic Rock. “We did that last U.K. tour in 2019, just before COVID. So that was kind of the end of it and the time was right.”
The band planned a big farewell. They started their 50th-anniversary tour in 2019. It was extended to 2022, ending with a final show on October 29 in Athens, Greece.
Just before the last show, the singer had a heart attack and couldn’t perform. The tour was canceled, and their final concert was on July 16, 2022, in Germany. In October 2022, Mogg shared a health update on Facebook, writing, “Thank you all for my Get Well messages. I am in the recovery position at the moment, which involves doing not very much and being catered for, which I will drag out for as long as possible before I’m rumbled.”
Mogg said last month that UFO won’t come back after retiring in April. He explained that the band lost its energy after bassist Pete Way died in 2020 from an accident. Mogg feels it wouldn’t be right to continue without him.