Hawkwind started out with one clear musical aim: to create the sights, sounds and sensations of an acid trip, so that the audience could share the experience without the help of any drugs. In 2008, ...

“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 ...

Hawkwind released what many fans consider their finest album, Doremi Fasol Latido, on Nov 24, 1972. Though merely a footnote in the U.S., Hawkwind are legendary among fans of underground rock 'n' roll ...

Nor did he imagine that an underground psychedelic band renowned for weird electronic effects and using fewer chords than Status Quo would end up with a catalogue of more than 50 albums still largely ...

Space-rock legends Hawkwind have released a new album Take Me To Your Leader. Founder member Dave Brock is still at the helm. Bassist and keyboard player Alan Davey, who comes from Ipswich, has been ...

The British geezers in Hawkwind regularly go out of fashion, eclipsed at various times by disco, punk, synth-pop and grunge. Just now, however, they’re enjoying a resurgence, thanks to the ...

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 Machine Stops looks at the tribulations of society, via an E. M. Forster short story with a very H.G. Wells theme. The story concerns a people enslaved by technology that has risen above itself.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There was a strange apparition in the UK charts last week, like a half-forgotten space vessel from the 1970s ...