“When I was growing up, and then in art college, there was a subculture of people into Gong and Hawkwind, who I had always dismissed as hippie bands. Then I heard the Calvert era, which got me into ...

“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 ...

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It’s November 1972, and something extraordinary is happening in the sleepy Norfolk market town of King’s Lynn. The Corn Exchange venue is packed to the rafters with East Anglian heads and freaks, ...

Yet despite its undeserved reputation as an odds-and-sods compilation, it contains some of the Robert Calvert era’s finest material. With its eclectic selection of studio and ‘live’ tracks, it’s like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Robert Calvert was one of the most charismatic and cutting-edge visionaries ...

A limited-edition deluxe nine-disc box set of Hawkwind's 1974 album, Hall Of The Mountain Grill, will be released through Cherry Red Records on August 29. The new set features seven CDs and two ...