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Motorway City
"Motorway City" is a 1983 single by the UK rock group Hawkwind. This version was recorded live on the Levitation tour and released as a single on Flicknife Records (FLS025) in the UK on 28 October 1983, taken from the album Zones. The b-side "Master of the Universe" was from the same concert, but did not appear on the album, appearing sometime later on the '' Hawkwind Anthology'' compilation album. The song was first recorded in demo form by the Hawklords at Rockfield Studios in 1979, eventually appearing on the Various Artists 2000 album ''Family Tree'' (Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP13CD). It made its way into the live set for the UK Winter 1979 tour, and its first recorded appearance was on the 1980 ''Live Seventy Nine'' album. A studio version was soon recorded and released on the 1980 album ''Levitation'', and a special version was also recorded for single release, but Bronze Records declined to issue it releasing " Who's Gonna Win The War?" instead.
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Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups. Since their formation in November 1969, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and have incorporated many different styles into their music, including hard rock, progressive rock and psychedelic rock. They are also regarded as an influential proto-punk band. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Many musicians, dancers and writers have worked with the band since their inception. Notable musicians who have performed in Hawkwind include Lemmy, Ginger Baker, Robert Calvert, Nik Turner and Huw Lloyd-Langton. However, the band are most closely associated with their founder, singer, songwriter and guitarist Dave Brock, who is the only remaining original member. Hawkwind are best known for the song "Silver Machine", which became a number-three UK hit single in 1972, but they scored further hit singles with "Urban Guerrilla" (another Top 40 hit) and "Shot Down in the Night". The ...
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Live Seventy Nine
''Live Seventy Nine'' is a 1980 live album by Hawkwind recorded on their Winter 1979 UK tour. It reached #15 on the UK album chart. This is a reconstituted Hawkwind with Brock, Bainbridge and King emerging from the dissolved Hawklords, joined by lead guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton who had played on the debut album ''Hawkwind'' and keyboardist Tim Blake who was a long-standing friend of the band and had played on Gong's Radio Gnome trilogy. The new line-up debuted at the first Futurama Festival at Queens Hall, Leeds on 9 September, then completed a 25-date UK tour in November and December with support from Doll by Doll, despite not having a record deal nor any product to promote, and ended the year at London's Electric Ballroom on 28 and 29 December with support from The Psychedelic Furs. The shows included Blake's collaborator from his ''Crystal Machine'' shows, the light artist Patrice Warrener using LASERs. although the band would encounter resistance from council Health and S ...
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Hawkwind Songs
Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups. Since their formation in November 1969, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and have incorporated many different styles into their music, including hard rock, progressive rock and psychedelic rock. They are also regarded as an influential proto-punk band. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Many musicians, dancers and writers have worked with the band since their inception. Notable musicians who have performed in Hawkwind include Lemmy, Ginger Baker, Robert Calvert, Nik Turner and Huw Lloyd-Langton. However, the band are most closely associated with their founder, singer, songwriter and guitarist Dave Brock, who is the only remaining original member. Hawkwind are best known for the song "Silver Machine", which became a number-three UK hit single in 1972, but they scored further hit singles with "Urban Guerrilla" (another Top 40 hit) and "Shot Down in the Night". Th ...
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Canterbury Fayre 2001
''Canterbury Fayre 2001'' is a 2001 live album by Hawkwind. Track listing #"5th Second of Forever" (Lloyd-Langton, Brock) – 3:52 #"Levitation" (Brock) – 9:18 #"Spiral Galaxy" (House) – 3:16 #"Solitary Mind Games" (Lloyd-Langton) – 8:08 #"Angels of Death" (Brock) – 6:17 #"Spirit of the Age" (Calvert, Brock) – 7:35 #"Magnu" (Brock) – 3:43 #"Dust of Time" xcerpt(Bainbridge, Brock, Lloyd-Langton) – 2:08 #"Motorway City" (Brock) – 6:11 #" Hurry on Sundown" (Brock) – 3:44 #"Assassins of Allah" ka "Hassan-i-Sabah" (Calvert, Rudolph) / "Space Is Their (Palestine)" (Brock)">Hassan-i-Sabah.html" ;"title="ka "Hassan-i-Sabah">ka "Hassan-i-Sabah" (Calvert, Rudolph) / "Space Is Their (Palestine)" (Brock)– 12:25 #"Silver Machine" (Calvert, Brock) – 5:16 #"Arthur's Poem" (Brown) – 0:55 #"Assault and Battery" (Brock) – 2:51 #"Void of Golden Light" [aka "The Golden Void"] (Brock) – 10:44 #"Ejection" (Calver ...
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Yule Ritual
''Yule Ritual'' is a 2001 live album by Hawkwind. Track listing #"Electronic Intro" (Hawkwind) – 4:27 #"Levitation" (Brock) – 8:47 #"Spacebrock" (Brock) – 6:08 #"Space Is Deep" (Brock) – 5:45 #"Flying Doctor" (Calvert, Brock) – 5:04 #"Warrior at the Edge of Time" (Moorcock, House, King, Powell) – 4:14 #"Angels of Death" (Brock) – 6:36 #"High Rise" (Calvert, House) – 5:07 #"Damage of Life" (Brock) – 6:39 #"Lighthouse" (Blake) – 7:54 #"Sonic Attack" (Moorcock, Bainbridge, Brock, Lloyd-Langton) – 5:56 #"Free Fall" (Calvert, Bainbridge) – 6:32 #" Motorway City" (Brock) – 6:13 #" Hurry on Sundown" (Brock) – 3:43 #" Spirit of the Age" (Calvert, Brock) – 7:06 #"Assassins of Allah" ka "Hassan-i-Sabah" (Calvert, Rudolph) / "Space Is Their (Palestine)" (Brock)">Hassan-i-Sabah.html" ;"title="ka "Hassan-i-Sabah">ka "Hassan-i-Sabah" (Calvert, Rudolph) / "Space Is Their (Palestine)" (Brock)– 8:58 ...
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Huw Lloyd-Langton
Richard Hugh "Huw" Lloyd-Langton (6 February 1951 – 6 December 2012) was an English musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band HawkwindStrong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Rock Discography'', Canongate, , p. 466 at various times. He also had his own band, The Lloyd Langton Group, and was the session lead guitarist for UK band The Meads of Asphodel. Biography Lloyd-Langton was born in Harlesden, north west London. As a member of Hawkwind he appeared on their first album, ''Hawkwind'', before leaving the band. He played guitar for Widowmaker, Budgie, and Leo Sayer during the 1970s, then rejoined Hawkwind in 1979, appearing on the ''Live Seventy Nine'' album release from that year and the subsequent ''Levitation'' album. He continued performing with Hawkwind until 1988, after which he made occasional guest appearances, then rejoined for a brief spell in 2001-2002 until ill health (Legionnaires' disease) forced him to leave once more. He sometimes played solo as ...
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Bronze Records
Bronze Records was an independent English record label founded in 1971 by record producer Gerry Bron on Oxford Street in London, eventually relocating to Chalk Farm. History Bron had been producing Uriah Heep for Vertigo Records, and he set up the new label for future Uriah Heep releases, along with Juicy Lucy, Richard Barnes, Eastern Alliance and Colosseum. Other subsequent acts included Gene Pitney, Osibisa, Paladin, Goldie, Manfred Mann's Earth Band (another Vertigo refugee), the Real Kids, Roxy Music's Andy Mackay, Sally Oldfield, Motörhead, Angel Witch, the Damned, GirlschoolBronzand Hawkwind. Original manufacturing and distribution was through Island Records, moving to EMI in 1977 and then to Polydor Records in 1980. The label folded in financial difficulty in 1986, with the catalogue being sold to Ray Richards' Legacy Records. It subsequently passed to Castle Communications, and later Sanctuary Records, now controlled by the new incarnation of BMG. See also * L ...
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Levitation (Hawkwind Album)
''Levitation'' is the tenth studio album by English rock group Hawkwind, released in 1980. It peaked at No. 21 on the UK Albums Chart. At the time of its release, band leader Dave Brock stated: "with Levitation we’ve come full circle back to the style of our debut album. And that was the record which totally expressed our ideals and what we stood for." It is their first studio album after the departure of lead vocalist and lyricist Robert Calvert, and lyrics here tend to be cursory and the number of instrumentals is increased. It is also the only studio Hawkwind album to feature ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker and first for ex-Gong keyboardist Tim Blake, who would later return to the band and play on 2010's ''Blood of the Earth''. Recording The band, who consisted of the same personnel that had recorded the previous album ''Live Seventy Nine'', entered Roundhouse Recording Studios in July and August 1980 to record this album. The studio had been newly equipped with a 3M Digi ...
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Voiceprint Records
Voiceprint Records was a British independent record label based in England, founded in November 1990 by Rob Ayling. They specialised in re-releasing old material, especially progressive rock, but also had new releases, under the Resurgence and Blueprint labels. The holding company, Zeit Distribution Ltd., went into insolvency in 2010. It was replaced by the phoenix company, Gonzo Multimedia in 2010. The new company has a broader remit, and releases a much wider range of music. Labels Voiceprint operated a number of record labels, including some for a single band or set of related artists. Major Voiceprint labels include Blueprint, and Resurgence. Artists The first release on Voiceprint was a Daevid Allen album, ''The Australian Years''. Among the many other artists whose recordings have been released by the company are Tim Blake, Leonard Cohen, The Fall (whose Cog Sinister label was acquired by Voiceprint in 1997), Fish, Gong, Hawkwind, Steve Hillage, Patrick Moraz, Anthony Ph ...
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Space Rock
Space rock is a music genre characterized by loose and lengthy song structures centered on instrumental textures that typically produce a hypnotic, otherworldly sound. It may feature distorted and reverberation-laden guitars, minimal drumming, languid vocals, synthesizers and lyrical themes of outer space and science fiction. The genre emerged in late 1960s psychedelia and progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, and Gong who explored a "cosmic" sound. Similar sounds were pursued in the early 1970s West German ''kosmische Musik'' ("cosmic music") scene. Later, the style was taken up in the mid-1980s by Spacemen 3, whose "drone-heavy" sound was avowedly inspired by and intended to accommodate drug use. By the 1990s, space rock developed into shoegazing, stoner rock and post-rock with bands such as the Verve, Flying Saucer Attack, and Orange Goblin. History Origins: 1950s-1960s Humanity's entry into outer space provided ample subject matter for rock and roll and ...
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Rockfield Studios
Rockfield Studios is a residential recording studio located in the Wye Valley just outside the village of Rockfield, Monmouthshire, Wales. It was originally founded in 1963 by brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward. Facilities Rockfield is a two-studio facility consisting of The Coach House and The Quadrangle. Both studios reside within converted solid-stone farm buildings. One of the world's first residential recording studios, Rockfield offers living accommodations for clients recording at the studio for an extended period of time. The Coach House Constructed in 1968, The Coach House includes a large 150-square-metre live area with stone walls, a wooden ceiling, and a Yamaha grand piano. In addition to the live room, there is one stone drum room, an acoustically variable second drum room, and two isolation booths. Recording equipment in The Coach House is based around a customised Neve 8121 recording console with vintage outboard processing, including Neve 1060 microphone am ...
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Hawklords
Hawklords were an English music group active between 1978 and 1979. Members were from Hawkwind, who were inactive during that period, (Robert Calvert – vocals, Dave Brock – guitar and Simon King (musician), Simon King – drums) and a local Devon group named Ark (Harvey Bainbridge – bass and Martin Griffin – drums) with the addition of former Pilot (band), Pilot keyboardist Steve Swindells. In 1978, the band released their first full studio album ''25 Years On''. In 2008, a Hawklords (2008), new Hawklords formed around bass player Harvey Bainbridge and ex-Hawkwind vocalist Ron Tree. Live The release of the album ''25 Years On'' was promoted with a 41 date UK tour during October and November 1978. The stage show was designed by Barney Bubbles and was based on a ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis''/Mao Zedong, Mao Tse-tung dystopia theme, featuring a projected film based light show, dancers in drab clothing performing mundane tasks, and spotlight towers creating an ...
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