"Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music"
What Is Your Definitive Hawkwind Album?
Space rockers Hawkwind were formed by guitarist and singer/songwriter, Dave Brock and guitarist Mick Slattery, who decided to join forces in 1969 to become 'Group X' then 'Hawkwind Zoo' before being shortened.
In '71, exactly a year after their debut self titled album, Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister joined on bass. He recorded five albums with the group including their first live offering Space Ritual and two studio classics, Hall Of The Mountain Grill and Warrior On The Edge Of Time. Lemmy stayed with the band for nearly four years before being sacked for a mistaken drugs mix up at a Canadian airport. Shortly after, he went on to have success with his own venture, Motorhead.
In 1976, Hawkwind were immortilised in a sci-fi novel 'The Time Of The Hawklords' by Michael Butterworth and despite the numerous changes to the group's line up over the years, Brock has remained the only constant member to stay with the group. Throughout the nineties and onwards, the band began to consistently release live material, highlighting their customary habit of documenting their alternative versions of studio songs when they gig. This year's new mini-album Take Me To Your Future is the latest addition to their extensive back catalogue.
HAWKWIND'S CORE STUDIO AND LIVE ALBUMS:
1970 - Hawkwind
1971 - In Search Of Space
1972 - Doremi Fasol Latido
1973 - Space Ritual (Live)
1974 - Hall Of The Mountain Grill
1975 - Warrior On The Edge Of Time
1976 - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
1977 - Quark, Strangeness And Charm
1978 - 25 Years On
1979 - PXR5
1980 - Live Seventy-Nine (Live)
1980 - Levitation
1981 - Sonic Attack
1982 - Church Of Hawkwind
1982 - Choose Your Masques
1983 - Zones
1984 - Stonhenge / Do Not Panic
1985 - Chronicle Of The Black Sword
1986 - Live Chronicles (Live)
1987 - Out And Intake
1988 - The Xenon Codex
1990 - Space Bandits
1991 - Palace Springs (Live)
1992 - Electric Tepee
1992 - California Brainstorm (Live)
1993 - It Is The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous
1994 - The Business Trip (Live)
1995 - Alien 4
1996 - Love In Space
1997 - The 1999 Party (Live)
1997 - Distant Horizons
1998 - Hawkwind 1997 (Live)
1999 - In Your Area (Live)
2000 - Thrilling Hawkwing Adventures (Live)
2001 - Yule Ritual (Live)
2002 - Live 90 (Live)
2002 - Live At Canterbury 2001 (Live)
2004 - Spaced Out In London (Live)
2005 - Take Me To Your Leader
2006 - Take Me To Your Future
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