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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 saw the upside of a recent hospital stay

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“Our music is derived from all the trips we’ve had. There’s horror, beauty, paranoia, ecstasy, even randiness; every sort of human mood”: The birth of psychedelic warlords Hawkwind

Events around their 1970 self-titled debut album included turning a radio testing device into a musical instrument, impressing influencer John Peel and using subsonics to make drunk people physically sick

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"I was pissed off. This disrespects the band." Dave Brock slams BBC suggestion that Hawkwind were anti-Beatles and stole Paul McCartney's long-lost bass

Paul McCartney: The Hunt For The Lost Bass tells the story of the former Beatle's long-lost Höfner violin bass

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“She said, ‘Do you know anybody who plays keyboards?’ I lied and said, ‘Yeah – me!’” Hawkwind’s Magnus Martin isn’t actually a member of Hawkwind. He just never stopped turning up

The guitarist has been a fixture in Dave Brock’s band for nearly a decade, but his history with the space rockers goes much further back. Now he’s released his debut solo album too

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"He wanted my shotgun – he'd just have these total freakouts. There were so many wonderful moments and terrible mayhem with him." Fuelled by bipolar disorder, the 70s' most outlandish concept album predicted a political meltdown

In the time before punk, there was only one place to go for anarchic, pile-driving hypno-rock

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“Lemmy was very forceful and pushy because he took a lot of speed. He got the job because he elbowed everybody else out the way!” How Hawkwind made Silver Machine, and gained the respect of Dave Brock’s bank manager

It was only their second-ever single, but it made a massive impact – and Brock still doesn’t really know how it happened

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"Yelling, fighting, drugs, alcohol… everything always went on. At the very end, he took me to his house and gave me a sword." Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, by those who knew him best

On what would've been his 80th birthday, we remember rock'n'roll icon and Motorhead legend Lemmy Kilmister

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"We wanted Wayne Kramer from The MC5 to be our guitarist": Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days

Lucas Fox looked after Lemmy when he was fired by Hawkwind - they bonded over Monty Python, speed and Special Brew

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“Some of the police were dealing dope! They’re knocking at the door and we stop rolling joints, but the promoter says, ‘They have marijuana for us!’” When America fell in love with an eccentric British prog band

A change of line-up, a change of style and Timothy Leary’s plans for a concert suspended in the air helped made their 1974 album a classic

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“We weren’t looking for peaceful – we were looking for horrid. We gave people fits. Locked the doors and pointed strobes at the crowd, wocka-wocka-wocka”: From falling together to falling apart, Hawkwind’s early era was no hippie dream

Lemmy, Nik Turner and Dave Brock lived through a time of division through choice of drugs, mental health issues and artistic intentions, which still left a remarkable impact on the world of ‘out-there’ music

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"Everyone who’s been in Hawkwind is a Hawklord." The current line-up of Hawklords state their case with Time...

Now officially in their third decade, the Hawklords collective continue their purple patch with latest album Time.

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“Obviously there’s some songs you get bored with. We go off on tangents, then come back into the old vocal refrain. That’s the way out”: What’s left for The Mighty Hawkwind to achieve? They have a few ideas

56 years and 37 studio albums in, Dave Brock’s band remain determined to push boundaries, harnessing new tech and new ideas while staying true to their focus on powerpacked live performances

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"If we’d kept things together and stopped arguing, we could have all been multi-millionaires!" The story of Hawkwind's most prog-friendly album, Warrior On The Edge Of Time

Bruised and battle-weary after a punishing live schedule, in 1975 Hawkwind weren’t in the best place ahead of recording their fifth studio LP. But what emerged was a stunning tour de force of science fantasy-inspired progressive space rock

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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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