AOR is a band formed by The Alarm

The Alarm

The Alarm are an alternative rock band that emerged from North Wales in the late 1970s. They started as a mod band and stayed together for over ten years. As a rock band, they displayed marked influences from Welsh language and culture...

 lead guitarist Dave Sharp

Dave Sharp

Dave Sharp is an English guitarist who co-founded, along with Mike Peters, the Welsh punk rock band The Alarm.-Early career:...

 in early 2008 to perform The Alarm's US setlist together with newly written material.

The current lineup consists of:

• Dave Sharp, lead guitar
• Wayne Parry, vocals
• Tom Szakaly, Hammond
• Dave Black, bass guitar
• Si Smith, drums

In the autumn of 2008 Sharp was approached by Mike Peters

Mike Peters

Michael Bartley Peters , better known as Mike Peters, is an American cartoonist.He draws the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm, as well as syndicated editorial cartoons that appear in papers all over the United States...

, Alarm vocalist, about re-recording some of the classic Alarm tracks with the original lineup, including Eddie MacDonald and Nigel Twist.

Towards the end of 2008 AOR started work on an album due for release in 2009 - including a cover of Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...

's classic 1979 Woodstock version of "With a Little Help from my Friends."