Banquet is the fourth album by German progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1974. By this time there was no hard rock sound, it was now strictly progressive rock mixed with jazz fusion. The song "Our World Is a Rock 'n' Roll Band" was the opening track on some versions (i.e. the U.S. version) of the original LP release, but the only CD releases to date do not include this track, which can instead be found as a bonus track on the Repertoire Records CD release of their self-titled debut.

Mind Exploding is the fifth album by Lucifer's Friend. This album marks the point where they returned to a more hard rock oriented style with less of a progressive rock sound. It is more or less the missing link between I'm Just a Rock & Roll Singer (1973) and Banquet (1974); with the hard rock driven sound of the former, it still has the occasional horn section and progressiveness of the latter. This is the last album with John Lawton on vocals before he joined Uriah Heep. Lawton returned to Lucifer's Friend in 1981 to record the Mean Machine album.

2015 two CD collection from the German rockers. Awakening includes a disc that contains 10 tracks lifted from their original studio album plus a bonus CD that features four new studio recordings. Lucifer's Friend is reforming in 2015, some 20+ years after they were last together. The band formed in 1970 with their influential and ground-breaking self-titled album and went on to release six albums in that decade. The band reformed in the early '80s for two albums and then briefly again in 1994 for one album.