Apart from founding Scientology, Hubbard fashioned himself a composer and musician. There's a small body of his work out there, and it's approximately as good as the movie Battlefield Earth .
Source: ronthemusicmaker.org
It's well known that L. Ron Hubbard was a sci-fi novelist in addition to founding the Church of Scientology. But his myriad of talents didn't stop just at the written word -- one of his passions was music. He considered himself something of a composer and producer, and a handful of his famous musician devotees made the effort to record his works.
Assembled here is a (mostly) complete guide to The Master's masterworks:
1. Space Jazz: The soundtrack of the book Battlefield Earth
Hubbard conceived of an album of music to go along to his sci-fi novel Battlefield Earth, and in 1982, jazz legend Chick Corea, a Scientologist, actually recorded it. The album was arranged and composed by two others, "under the direction of" L. Ron himself, who was at that time something of a recluse.
L. Ron became very interested in a particular synthsizer that was popular in the early '80s called the Fairlight CMI. Church of Scientology literature about Hubbard's music career talks about how he discovered untapped potential in the instrument that the inventors of the Fairlight had never considered.
In fact, the Fairlight was very popular in the '80s, so much so that Phil Collins was moved to state in his album notes for No Jacket Required that the Fairlight was NOT used on the record. Kate Bush used the Fairlight extensively on Hounds of Love, proving you can make good music with it, not just weird a weird jumble of horse sounds like Hubbard did.
