Life on Mars (USA)/Sebastian Grace

Someone posted this article on Wikipedia the week before Sebastian Grace's first appearance on Life on Mars.

William Garret Conway (born May 9, 1946) is an American glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Sebastian Grace.

Every once in a while a band comes along, and this was just such a band. Sebastian Grace and The Electric Insects epitomized the art of living fast and fading faster. Riding to prominence on the backwash of the British Glam Rock Invasion, Grace filled the recording industry's need for a cross dressing rocker who didn't have an English accent.

In 1973 they released their only single "The Last Planet I kissed" which peaked at #27 on the Billboard charts, while the B-Side "Martians On My Mind" only made it as high as #137.

Soon after their album was released, the listening public universally agreed that they shouldn't have bothered and the band split with Grace, declaring that he had "gotten weird."

Sebastian spent the next year consuming massive amounts of psychedelic mushrooms and recording nature sounds for a solo album titled "Cosmic Background Radiation: Hymnals For A Rocket Girl" that was never released, but has floated through the engineering community as a bootleg described as both "ahead of it time" and "total crap" depending on the listener's state of sobriety.

While he never returned to the stage and slipped into obscurity in 1975, some reports say he entered grad school and received a degree in Astrophysics before becoming a professor at Dufresne College in his hometown of Knights Ridge, Mass.

A fictionalized portrayal this little known "One-Hit Wonder" was depicted on the ABC TV show "Life On Mars," along with a remastered version of his only hit "The Last Planet I Kissed."