Originally released in the UK on 6th January 1978, Beauty And The Beast was the 2nd single to be taken from the album Heroes, which was recorded at the legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin. King Crimson’s Robert Fripp plays on the track and has claimed that the lead guitar used
on ‘Beauty And The Beast’ was his first take having arrived directly at Hansa Studios from New York.

The B-side of this 7” picture disc is a previously unreleased live version of Blackout, recorded on the 16th May, 1978 at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin during the ISOLAR II tour.