Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “When I was growing up, and then in art college, there was a subculture of people into Gong and Hawkwind, who I had always ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “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 ...

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Robert Calvert was one of the most charismatic and cutting-edge visionaries to emerge out of London's psych rock scene of the '60s & '70s, first as the frontman for the behemoth that is Hawkwind and ...

Recorded at shows in Liverpool and London, Hawkwind’s 1972 album The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London arguably captures the psychedelic rock band at its peak. Attempting to be “a full ...

Born Robert Newton Calvert on 9 March 1945 in Pretoria, South Africa. Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two. At the end of the 1960s he moved to London and joined the flourishing ...

Robert Calvert (Bob Calvert or Capt’n Bob to Hawkwind fans) was one of the true British originals in the manner of Viv Stanshall or Brian Eno and his death in 1988 was a sad loss to both the worlds of ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

“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 ...