Touched by an alien?

"Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection" by Michael C. Luckman (VH1/Pocket Books, $13.95)
LOS ANGELES -- In "Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection," Michael C. Luckman writes, "I had never imagined that so many musical icons had had direct communication with intelligent beings from other worlds ... ." The book combines his two loves:
ULuckman taught the country's first college-level course on rock music at the School for Social Research in 1971.
UThe Manhattan resident is also the founder of the Cosmic Majority, a group that "seeks to advance the views of the majority of people living on planet Earth who believe in UFOs."
According to his research -- which includes personal interviews, material from books and other printed sources and Web sites - drug use was not involved when rock stars, including John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Debbie Harry, were touched by something ethereal.
Elvis Presley may have been touched at birth. Larry Geller, the King's hairstylist-turned-spiritual adviser, recounted a story from Vernon Presley, Elvis' daddy. Blue lights bathed the house from above when little E. entered the world. Maybe this explains Presley's connection to the color -- from "Blue Suede Shoes," "Blue Hawaii" and "G.I. Blues" to "Blue Christmas," "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
Of course, no extraterrestrial book is complete without the inclusion of the King's future son-in-law, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. The moon-walker and Luckman accidentally ran into each other at a Manhattan magic shop while the author was working on the book. "I do believe in aliens," he tells Luckman, who is also the director of the New York Center for Extraterrestrial Research.
Suspiciously absent, however, is any mention of Guided by Voices, the kaput Ohio indie space-rockers who grew up near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton -- Luckman does, however, earn points for citing Wright-Pat on a few pages. As well he should: Any conspiracy junkie knows, the base is home to Hangar 18 and the bodies of those little green men from the 1947 Roswell, N.M., crash ... if you believe in that sort of thing.