Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Legacy

Legacy

A majority of the songs on the album were recorded live for the band's following release Royal Albert Hall October 10, 1997. Three singles were released from the album: "Electricity" in July 1997, "I Think I'm in Love" in January 1998, and "Come Together" in July 1998. Spiritualized re-recorded the songs "Come Together" and "Broken Heart" (the former with a cleaner radio mix and the latter with an Ennio Morricone-styled string and horn section) at Abbey Road Studios in early 1998; these tracks comprised the band's Abbey Road EP released in August 1998. The title track of the album appeared in the 2001 Cameron Crowe film Vanilla Sky.

In late 2009, Spiritualized performed the album live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series, in London. Another performance of this production featured as part of the ATP festival in May 2010 curated by Matt Groening. A remastered and expanded legacy edition of the album was released on 30 November 2009 to coincide with the show. The remastered edition was released on three formats:

• The Collector's Edition: twelve 3" mini CDs of the complete album track-by-track, plus two bonus discs of unreleased material. This edition was limited to only 1,000 copies.

• The Special Edition: a limited edition of the original album in the original pill-pack style packaging, alongside the two bonus discs.

• The standard one CD version of the original album with new artwork.

All three editions included the revised version of the opening track "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (now including "Can't Help Falling in Love" as originally intended for the album).

The album has been certified Gold in the UK, and platinum worldwide, having sold over 1,000,000 copies.