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“People have brains. They should use them instead of becoming like the machines they’re trying to play”: From experience, Hawkwind’s Dave Brock is against AI. Surprisingly, he’s also against the prevalence of legalised drugs

Even though a lost account password threatened production, 2023 concept album The Future Never Waits is a death-to-life analysis of why humans keep corrupting everything

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“Power and momentum allied to a vivid, panoramic sound”: Hawkwind’s late-career purple patch continues with There Is No Space For Us

Hawkwind return with There Is No Space For Us, another impressive blend of familiar elements and stylistic surprises in what’s effectively a sister album to Stories From Time And Space

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“The facts don’t matter. Whoever has the better story wins!” When Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown, Rush and others got in trouble with the law, the results were remarkably prog

Never mind the usual drink and drug offences… quirky, eccentric incidents seem to surround some of those who make music the same way

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"About halfway through the gig, I got down on my knees and prayed that God would forgive me and release me from this situation": The psychedelic early days of acid overlords and space travellers Hawkwind

Leading lights of the UK's psychedelic revolution, Hawkwind's early days were a fug of good trips, bad trips, free-form chaos and dancing gazelles

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“Emphatically proves that the current line-up is the band’s best since their mid-70s heyday”: Hawkwind’s Live At The Royal Albert Hall is much more than just another live album

Triple-disc set captures the space rock veterans’ sonic destruction at celebratory event, which shows how well their latest music sits with their early work – and inspires thoughts of music yet to come

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“We’d always be stopped by the police… In those days, anyone with long hair was a drug addict”: The story behind Hawkwind’s classic album, In Search Of Space

After spending endless nights on the road – complete with Stacia Blake colouring their shows – the band proved what a musical powerhouse they’d become with their second record in 1971

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“It really is down to Nik Turner’s habits… I wish it wasn’t, because it would be nice if it were more spiritual”: Dave Brock on how Hawkwind got their name

It’s not inspired by a Michael Moorcock story or an ancient Japanese proverb – It’s just about spitting, farting and behaving like animals

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“The best advice anybody’s given me? Don’t die ashamed”: An epic interview with Lemmy about fame, Bob Dylan and driving on LSD

Even nine years after his death, Motörhead frontman Lemmy remains one of rock’s greatest and funniest icons

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“We were the belt-and-braces Pink Floyd – basic yobbos”: how Hawkwind boldly went where no band had gone before on psychedelic masterpiece In Search Of Space

America had hippies and Woodstock – the UK had greasy, gritty space-heads Hawkwind and their cosmic epic In Search Of Space

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“Drugs At our age? You don’t have to take them forever. Once you’ve opened the doors of perception you can see what’s going on; you’ve got the ideas”: Dave Brock on Hawkwind’s late-period purple patch

Space rock veteran is happier then ever – and he even found an upside in nearly missing a recent tour over hospital stay

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The story of King Crimson's Red is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus BEAT, Anthony Phillips, Hawkwind, The Tangent, SIx By Six, Whom Gods Destroy, Trifecta and loads more...

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“Transportative music… a deeply cosmic record that might be out there with their very best”: Hawkwind’s Stories From Time And Space

The space rock icons’ late-career renaissance continues on their 36th studio album

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“He did one track… then went off with some famous singer to do another album”: Hawkwind’s collaboration with William Orbit didn’t happen on this album - but they hope it will on the next

Stories From Time And Space marks the band’s first offworld work in years, after being mentioned in a book got them thinking of the cosmos again

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“Lemmy was standing at the door. He gave me a bullet belt and a leather jacket and said, ‘You’re in!’”: the riotous story of Motörhead’s early years and the birth of “the worst band in the world“

How Lemmy bounced back from being fired from Hawkwind and defied the detractors to launch Motörhead into orbit

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“He really immersed himself in the story and spent weeks rewriting the narration… I had no idea what he was talking about, but it was so much better than what I wrote”: When Arjen Lucassen worked with his hero Rutger Hauer

Blade Runner star worried the Ayreon mastermind with the amount of swearing in his rewrites for concept album Lost In The New Real

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“On a few occasions I didn’t bother turning up at the early Hawkwind gigs - I earned more money busking at cinema queues”: Dave Brock’s life and times

From a dreamer using subway tunnels as echo units to leader of the anti-establishment icons, his encounters include Lemmy, LSD and celebrity druids

Evening Standard

‘Dreams do come true’ – William Orbit on the pure joy of playing with his musical heroes Hawkwind

Hawkwind’s In Search of Space was the first record William Orbit ever bought, and tonight he will be on stage with them at the Royal Albert Hall

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Has Steven Wilson's remix of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time become the definitive version?

Steven Wilson's version of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time gets a vinyl release. Can we let him have a go at Hall Of The Mountain Grill too?

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Hawkwind's Dave Brock is 81 and would like to go backwards in time instead of forwards

Hawkwind's Dave Brock on chopping up wood, feeding the horse, and the future of rock's ultimate space travellers

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The saga of Hawkwind's Space Ritual

After blasting out of the underground via the acid-laced rocket fuel of Silver Machine, Hawkwind created a spectacular multimedia live show unlike anything seen or heard before: the Space Ritual

Guitar World

Hawkwind founder and guitarist Mick Slattery dies aged 77

Slattery recorded with the British space-rock institution on their first demo and played their acid-laced early gigs

Daily Mirror

Hawkwind founder and guitarist Mick Slattery dies after short illness

Hawkwind's Mick Slattery has died at the age of 75, his bandmates have confirmed following a short illness as Dave Brock paid tribute

Wales Online

Hawkwind founding member Mick Slattery dies after short illness

Guitarist, 77, who helped form the legendary space rockers in 1969, passed away on St Patrick's Day

Louder

Hawkwind guitarist and founder Mick Slattery dead aged 77

Original Hawkwind guitarist and founding member Mick Slattery has died, the band report

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Open-minded and truly eclectic: Nik Turner was the spirit of Hawkwind

Despite his sometimes turbulent relationship with the rest of the band, Turner’s saxophone was an integral part of their gritty and cathartic 70s sound

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