"Martian Man" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul[1][2] that was destined to be a track on her 1976 album Before You Go Tonight (aka Take Your Time), but was shelved as part of a legal dispute with former manager Don Arden.
[5] "Martian Man" finally appeared internationally as a track on de Paul's 2013 anthology CD, Into My Music: 1975-1979.
[6] De Paul explained that the ethereal song is about former boyfriend and zany musician Roy Wood, hence the strange lyrics about a woman who falls in love with a stranded Martian.
[3] "He came to collect me at my flat and he's dyed his hair green - I thought he looked like a Martian", she said in the booklet to her Into My Music album.
In 1996, the ex-All About Eve singer and longterm de Paul fan, Julianne Regan, released an electronic version of the song that was approved by de Paul,[7] as a track on the extended play CD The Milkman by Regan's group, Mice.