“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 ...

It might have been Lemmy’s penultimate record with the band – he was let go within a year of its September 1974 release – but he often attested that Hall Of The Mountain Grill marks Hawkwind’s zenith.

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 ...

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 ...