Planet P Project is a pseudonym used by American rock musician Tony Carey for his science-fiction themed, progressive rock/space rock music. Carey has released six albums under the Planet P Project name: Planet P (1983, later retitled Planet P Project), Pink World (1984), Go Out Dancing, Part I (1931) (2005), Go Out Dancing, Part II (Levittown) (2008), Go Out Dancing, Part III (Out in the Rain) (2009) and Steeltown (2013). Music videos for singles from the first albums received moderate to heavy airplay on MTV when originally released. Pink World was originally a two-record set, released on bright-pink-colored vinyl. Planet P's most well known singles were "Why Me?" (a sweeping, energetic song about outer space and isolation), and the downbeat "Static". Go Out Dancing, Part I (1931) is the first of the trilogy, with part two titled Go Out Dancing, Part II (Levittown) and part three as Go Out Dancing, Part III (Out in the Rain). The project's name was inspired from the fictional "Planet P" in Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers. History "Planet P Project" is a pseudonym used by rock musician Tony Carey to distinguish his more progressive and experimental music from his pop-oriented rock releases. Tony Carey before Planet P Project Tony Carey signed his first recording contract in the early 1970s with his band Blessings, though the band never finished recording an album. Carey successfully auditioned as the keyboardist for Ritchie Blackmore's band Rainbow and played with the band for two years. He recorded one studio album with Rainbow, the highly acclaimed Rising, and live concert material from two world tours was subsequently released as two double LPs and a six-disc CD box set. Carey left Rainbow in 1977 and moved to Germany in 1978. He co-owned Hotline recording studio in Frankfurt, West Germany, with producer Peter Hauke, and he spent many hours over the next five years with his friend and recording engineer Nigel Jopson, recording as he wanted, often working twenty-hour days. As Carey states, he suffered the consequences of excessive drug use during this period. He recorded all of his early albums at that studio. He released his first solo album, In the Absence of the Cat, in 1982, on the indie label X-Records. Carey released his second solo album, I Won't Be Home Tonight, on the Rocshire label in 1982, along with the single (and music video) "West Coast Summer Nights".