[9][10] It is a concept album[11] about rocket scientist Wernher von Braun escaping the end of World War II by time-travelling back to Pompeii and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

[12] The album received mixed reviews with John Aizelwood of Q Magazine noting "fine in itself, but the past is still too great a burden".

[7] In 1990, Grant Hart told British magazine Select, "It starts out narrated by Pliny the Younger from Pompeii, OK?

The story starts with the fall of Nazi Germany, and Wernher Von Braun doesn't wanna be captured.

Escaping back in time in a V2 rocket, von Braun meets Pliny the Elder who takes him to Pompeii.