The cynical response to the release of yet another Hawkwind live album – at least their fifth since 2015 – is to wave a dismissive hand as if wafting away a hippie’s morning-after lentil curry fart.

“People look back now and think of Hawkwind as this sort of hippie peace and love group. But it was never that,” says Lemmy, one of the band’s original self-styled ‘captains.’ “We weren’t looking for ...

Back in ’69 Dave Brock actually played the Royal Albert Hall – busking the main stage as part of the Pop Proms – but Hawkwind were not a band that the venue would actually encourage to play there.

How Hawkwind were encapsulated in the graphics for their March and April 1974 tour of the US When the album was released, Hawkwind probably weren’t thinking about potential sales figures or chart ...

Far from giving up the ghost, Hawkwind are scaling new heights - with Samantha Fox, Matthew Wright and "futuristic sex-robots" in tow. Dave Brock tells all to Edwin McFee Far from giving up the ghost, ...

“Silver Machine” was not followed-up in trusted music biz fashion by another hit-seeking single but by the band’s third album, late November’s Doremi Fasol Latido, and an end-of-year tour which was ...

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Mick Slattery, one of the founding members of rock band Hawkwind, has died. The 77-year-old passed away on St Patrick’s Day (March 17) following a short illness. He left the group not long after its ...

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Hawkwind released what many fans consider their finest album, Doremi Fasol Latido, on Nov 24, 1972. Though merely a footnote in the U.S., Hawkwind are legendary among fans of underground rock 'n' roll ...