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 ...

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 ...

The ‘X In Search Of Space’-era Hawkwind in 1971, before Lemmy came on board As 1972 unfolded, Lemmy – a guitarist-turned-bassist who approached his newly adopted four-string instrument as though he ...

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.

Hawkwind frontman Dave Brock has opened up about how his former bandmate, the late guitarist Lemmy, handled being fired after the band grew fed up with his drug-fuelled antics. Lemmy, born Ian Fraser ...

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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With Everything You Need to Know About Hawkwind, we take you inside a band that represented the flip side of psychedelia -- far away from the peace, love and flowers adopted by so many from the era.

The psychedelic warlords' live masterpiece reissued... A recent Notes & Queries in The Guardian asked if any band had lasted as long as Hawkwind while having such little success. Hawkwind fans will ...