Nicholas Robert Turner (26 August 1940 – 10 November 2022) was an English musician, best known as a member of space rock pioneers

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. Turner played saxophone and flute, as well as being a vocalist and composer. While with Hawkwind, Turner was known for his experimental

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stylisations and outrageous stage presence, often donning full makeup and Ancient Egypt-inspired costumes.

1940–1969: Early years

Turner was born in Oxford in August 1940 to a theatrical family, although his father was working in a munitions factory. At the age of 13 his family moved to the

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seaside resort of

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where he worked at the local funfair during the summer holiday season, befriending another seasonal worker

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. His first influences were

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and the films of

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. Turner went on to complete an engineering course and then undertook one voyage in the Merchant Navy. He then set about travelling around Europe picking up menial jobs, and it was during a stint as a roustabout in a travelling music circus in 1967 that he made the acquaintance of

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in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Turner had two years of clarinet and saxophone lessons in the early 1960s but never considered himself good enough to pursue them seriously. However, whilst travelling around Europe he encountered some free jazz players in

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who impressed upon him the importance of expression over technical proficiency, and it was then that he decided that what he "wanted to do was play free jazz in a rock band".

1969–1976 and 1982–1984: Hawkwind

Turner, owning a van, had originally offered his services as a roadie to the newly formed Hawkwind. However, when the band discovered his passion for the saxophone he was offered a position in the band to add to the overall weirdness of their sound. Nik Turner - Hawkwind - 1974

Of his playing, Turner admitted that "it's the overall feel rather than the individual parts of the music that we're interested in. I don't have any illusions about my technical ability. I tend to use it as an electronic medium rather than an instrument". He became an active and vocal member of the band, pulling in friends such as Dik Mik, Calvert and Barney Bubbles, and involving the band in community and charity projects, sometimes to the chagrin of the others. '' NME'' – September 1972 Turner was a member of the band during their most commercially successful and critically acclaimed period, writing or co-writing some of their most popular songs such as "Brainstorm" and "Master of the Universe". However, complaints about his playing over other members of the band despite numerous requests to modify his behaviour eventually led to his dismissal in November 1976.Saga of Hawkwind, Carol Clerk, Publisher: Music Sales Limited, In 1982 during the recording of ''

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'', Brock invited Turner to the recording sessions and he was asked to front the band for the album's tour. Turner's second stint in the band lasted just over 2 years and although the band did not undertake any studio recording together, he was featured on live albums including '' Zones'','' This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic'' and the band’s first released concert video, Night of the Hawks. Although some live albums and videos were released, the band did not undertake any studio recording. At the end of 1984 while preparing material for '' The Chronicle of the Black Sword'' album, he was sacked once again.

1977–1986: Sphynx and Inner City Unit

After his first departure from Hawkwind, Turner holidayed in

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and while visiting the

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he was given three hours inside the King's Chamber to record some flute music. On returning to England,

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cleaned up the tapes and assembled the Sphynx band featuring Hawkwind's

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, Gong's Mike Howlett and Tim Blake, and Harry Williamson to record music augmenting the original flute tracks while Turner adapted lyrics from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The album was released as '' Xitintoday'' on

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in 1978 and the band toured, played festivals including Deeply Vale Festivals (later released as a CD),

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(part of which was broadcast on BBC television) and his own themed ''Bohemian Love-In'' all day festival at the Roundhouse. Nik Turner (2010)

With Williamson he conceived the "Nuclear Waste" single featuring many of the Sphynx musicians and a lead vocal by Sting. He then guested on the album ''Fairy Tales'' by Williamson and Gilli Smyth's project Mother Gong, and out of this he, Mo Vicarage and Ermanno Ghisio-Erba (a.k.a. Dino Ferari) formed Inner City Unit (ICU) with

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and Dead Fred. Thoms and Ghisio-Erba had previously played together in Steve Took's Horns who had played their only gig at the ''Bohemian Love-In''. The Horns were managed by Tony Landau, a friend of Turner's since adolescence, and were fronted by former

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percussionist

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, who would later make guest lead vocal appearances with ICU alongside his former Horns bandmates.Liner notes to ''Blow It – The All New Adventures of Steve Took's Horns'', Cherry Red CDM RED 255, 2004 Inner City Unit recorded the albums ''Pass Out'' and ''Maximum Effect'' before collapsing due to certain members drug problems. Turner and Dead Fred had stints in Hawkwind before regrouping to release the albums ''New Anatomy'', ''The President Tapes'' and the EP ''Blood and Bone''.

1987–1999

Turner's next project was Nik Turner's Fantastic All Stars, a saxophone and Hammond organ driven

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and

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band. They gigged for several years, eventually releasing the album ''Kubanno Kickasso!''. Turner and Twink got together for some impromptu live performances under the name Pinkwind, two CDs of which were released on Twink's own record label without the permission of Turner. In 1993 Turner was approached by Pressurehed and Helios Creed to record another version of his Sphynx project using the original flute tracks, resulting in the album ''Sphynx''. This partnership then developed further, regularly touring in the US performing a set of Hawkwind-centred material sometimes featuring

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and former Hawkwind members Simon House, Del Dettmar and Powell. One studio album ''Prophets of Time'' was released in 1994 followed by the live CD and DVD ''Space Ritual 1994 Live'' and another live CD ''Past or Future?'' in 1996. Out of this set of musicians formed the band Anubian Lights, centred on Len Del Rio and Tommy Greñas from Pressurehed with contributions from Turner, Dettmar and House, as did the band Spiral Realms centred on House and Rio.

2000–2022

On 21 October 2000, at the Brixton Academy, a 'Hawkestra' event took place, featuring nearly all past members of Hawkwind. Disagreements between various participants led to any restaging of the event being unlikely, but Turner did stage a further event under the banner The Greasy Truckers Party featuring members of the Hawkestra' on 21 October 2001 at the

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. Out of this a loose band formed, performing further gigs and eventually using the name xhawkwind.com. An appearance at Guilfest in 2002 led to confusion as to whether this actually was Hawkwind, sufficiently irking Brock into taking legal action to prohibit Turner from trading under the name Hawkwind, a case which Turner lost. The band settled on the name Space Ritual and are still currently active. Nik also made an impromptu appearance during the first Reggae Festival of Wales in 2003, joining the Goldmaster Allstars and Jamaican vocalist Alton Ellis. Turner resurrected another version of Inner City Unit with Thoms, performing irregular gigs. He also fronted the "psychedelic latino-funk" band Galaktikos. He continued to attend festivals playing and guesting whenever possible and was an eager contributor to other band's projects, such as recording an album and touring with US space rockers Spaceseed in 2004, and live appearances with UK dance outfit Akahum at BGG Shareholders Party & HEADS Haiti Benefit show. Living in

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, he often busked playing his saxophone in

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city centre during weekend nights. Nik Turner (2011)

After playing at "Hawkfan Festival" in Hamburg in 1997 and the Space and Rock Festival – Rocksjon,

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, Sweden in 1998 with the Finnish space rock group Dark Sun, they moved to play at Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland. This resulted in the live album, ''Ice Ritual'', which was released in 2000. In 2008 Nik Turner was invited to Space Mirrors collective as a guest member. Since that time he recorded flute and saxophone on three Space Mirrors releases: ''Majestic-12: A Hidden Presence'' (2009), ''Dreams of Area 51'' (2011) and ''In Darkness They Whisper'' (2012). Turner also provided flute for Dodson and Fogg, a folk rock project released in 2012. After a chance meeting wit
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a Welsh jazz/blues singer-songwriter, at Brecon Jazz Festival in 2012, where Turner and Mr H performed a free improvised jazz session, Mr H invited Turner to feature on his fourth album, ''Poets, Balladeers and Cheats''. In October 2012, Turner entered Berryhill Studios in Monmouthshire, and performed an improvised alto saxophone session on seven of Mr H's compositions, which were released in the spring of 2013. In March 2013 Turner turned up at the

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in Austin, Texas playing an official SXSW gig at Rebels Honky Tonk bar billed as Nik Turner (ex-Hawkwind) playing predominantly ''Space Ritual'' songs. He also guested on stage with The Soft Moon at Hotel Vegas the previous night. Turner also played saxophone and narrated "Brainstorm" on the ''Warfare'' album (2017 High Roller Records). At the Laugharne Weekend 2019,

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played the Fountain Inn with his all-star Sound Carriers which included Euros Childs and New Order drummer Stephen Morris. Nik Turner joined them at the end of their set.

Personal life and death

Turner died on 10 November 2022, at the age of 82.

Discography

As a member of Hawkwind

*1970 – ''

'' *1971 – '' In Search of Space'' *1972 – ''

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'' *1973 – '' Space Ritual'' *1974 – '' Hall of the Mountain Grill'' *1975 – ''

Warrior on the Edge of Time ''Warrior on the Edge of Time'' is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Hawkwind. Many of the lyrics are by Michael Moorcock, and the album is loosely based on the concept of Moorcock's novel '' The Eternal Champion''. It was the band ...

'' *1976 – ''

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'' *1980 – '' Weird Tapes Volume 3'' – live 1975–77 *1981 – '' Weird Tapes Volume 5'' – live 1976–77 *1982 – ''

'' – guests on "Void City" only *1982 – '' Weird Tapes Volume 6'' – live 1970–73 *1983 – '' Weird Tapes Volume 8'' – live 1966–73 *1983 – ''

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'' – live 1970–1971 *1983 – '' Zones'' – live 1980 and 1982 *1984 – '' This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic'' – live 1980 and 1984 *1984 – ''

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'' – live 1973 *1984 – ''

Space Ritual Volume 2 ''The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London'' (commonly known as ''Space Ritual'') is a 1973 live double album recorded in 1972 by UK rock band Hawkwind. It is their fourth album, reached #9 in the UK album charts and briefly dented the ...

'' – live 1972 *1987 – '' Out & Intake'' – outtakes and live 1982–1986 *1991 – '' BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert'' – live 1972 *1995 – ''

Undisclosed Files Addendum ''Undisclosed Files'' (LP version) was released by Hawkwind to promote their new (at the time) label, The Emergency Broadcast System in 1993, catalogue number "HAWKWIND·1". ''Undisclosed Files Addendum'' is the 1995 CD release with slightly ...

'' – live 1984 and 1988 *1997 – '' The 1999 Party'' – live 1974 *1999 – ''

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'' – live 1976 *2000 – '' Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2'' – live 1982

Solo and collaborative projects

*1978 – Nik Turner's Sphynx – '' Xitintoday'' (Charisma, CDS4011) *1993 – ''Sphynx'' (Cleopatra, CLEO21352) *1994 – ''Prophets of Time'' (Cleopatra, CLEO69082) *1995 – ''Space Ritual 1994 Live'' (Cleopatra, CLEO95062) and video-DVD (Cherry Red, CRDVD136) – live *1995 – Pinkwind – ''Festival of the Sun'' (Twink Records, TWK CD2) – live *1995 – Anubian Lights – ''Eternal Sky'' (Hypnotic, CLEO96032) *1996 – Hawkfairies – ''Purple Haze'' (Twink Records, TWK CD5) – live *1996 – Anubian Lights – ''The Jackal and Nine EP'' (Hypnotic, CLEO 9666-2) *1996 – ''Past or Future?'' (Cleopatra) – live *1997 – ''Sonic Attack 2001'' (Dossier, 8480) – compilation album of Cleopatra material *1998 – Anubian Lights – ''Let Not The Flame Die Out'' (Hypnotic, CLP 0346-2) *2000 – Nik Turner's Sphynx – '' Live at Deeply Vale'' (Ozit/Morpheus) – live 1978 *2001 – 2001 A Space Rock Odyssey – double live cd of the first two Space Ritual concerts (Ozit/Morpeus CD 0055) *2001 – Nik Turner's Fantastic All Stars – ''Kubanno Kickasso'' (Ozit/Morpheus, niktcd334) *2013 – ''Space Gypsy'' (Cleopatra) *2014 - Space Invaders & Nik Turner – Sonic Noise Opera (Nasoni Records) *2015 - Space Fusion Odyssey (Cleopatra) *2017 - ''Life in Space'' (

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) *2018 - Nik Turner &

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'' (

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) *2019 - ''Final Frontier'' (Purple Pyramid) *2022 - Nik Turner & The Trance Dimensionals "Synchronicity"(Black Widow Records, BWRCD 247-2)

Guest appearances

*1974 –

– ''

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'' (United Artists, UAG 29507) *1975 – Robert Calvert – ''

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'' (United Artists, UAG 29852) *1975 –

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& Deep Fix – '' New Worlds Fair'' (United Artists, UAG 29732) *1979 – Mother Gong – ''Fairy Tales'' (Charly, CHRL 5018) *1981 – Robert Calvert – ''

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'' (A-Side, IF 0311) *1981 – Mother Gong – ''Robot Woman'' *1981 –

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– ''The Game'' (Polydor, 5033) *1982 – Catherine Andrews – ''Fruits'' (Cat Tracks, PURRLP2) *1982 – The Astronauts – ''Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs'' (Genius) *1982 – Big Amongst Sheep – ''Terminal Velocity'' (Rock Solid) *1983 –

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– ''The Official Bootleg'' *1994 – Psychic TV – ''Pagan Day'' (Cleopatra) *1994 – Helios Creed – ''Busting Through the Van Allen Belt'' (Cleopatra, CLP 9465-2) *1995 –

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– '' The Stranglers & Friends Live in Concert'' – live 1980 *1995 – Sting and the Radioactors – ''Nuclear Waste'' (Voiceprint, BP181CD) – recorded in 1978 *1996 – The Moor – ''Flux'' (Bishop Garden Records, BGR 03.1996.01 RM) *1997 – Nigel Mazlyn Jones, Guy Evans and Nik Turner – ''Live'' (Blueprint, BP250CD) – live *1999 – Dark Sun – ''Ice Ritual'' (Burnt Hippie records, BHR-004) *1999 – 46000 Fibres – ''The 5th Anniversary Concerts: Set 3'' (TRI 3/3) *2000 – Five Fifteen – ''Silver Machine'' (Bluelight Records) *2001 – Blue Horses – ''Ten Leagues Beyond World's End'' *2003 – The Jalapeños – ''Tear It Up'' (3D Discs 0002) *2004 – Spaceseed – ''Future Cities of the Past Part 1'' (Project 9 Records) *2004 – Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix – ''Rollercoaster Holiday'' (Voiceprint, VP351CD) – demos recorded in 1975 *2005 – Muzak – ''Saturnia'' (Elektrohasch, ATHG-4127) *2009 – Space Mirrors – ''Majestic-12: A Hidden Presence'' (Sleaszy Rider, SR-0082) *2011 – Space Mirrors – ''Dreams of Area 51'' vinyl split single w/Acid FM (Monsterfuzz, 002) *2012 – Space Mirrors – ''In Darkness They Whisper'' (Transubstans, TRANS097) *2012 – Dodson and Fogg – ''Dodson and Fogg'' (Wisdom Twins Records, WTR01) *2013 – Space Mirrors – ''The Other Gods'' (Transubstans, TRANS109) *2013 - Paradise 9 - "Take Me To The Future" (P9Recordings, P9CD0004) *2013 - The Sensible Gray Cells - ''

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-'' guest on "State of the Nation" and "Looking at You" (Easy Action, EARS051) *2014 - Sex Drugs and HIV - ''Sex Drugs and HIV'' guest on "Hashish" and "Tortured Genious" (Plastichead HIV2CD001) *2014 – Silverwing – ''Strange Daze Indeed'' (Audio-Nectar, ANSILVER-01) *2014 - Poets Balladeers and Cheats - Mr H (Barium Villa Records BV0006) *2014 -

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- Black Sails (Global Recording Artists, GRA 13442) *2015 – Space Mirrors – ''The Street Remains'' (Atomic Age, AAR15-04) *2015 – Space Mirrors – ''Stella Polaris'' (Atomic Age, AAR15-03) *2015 -

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- ''Starhawk'' (Gonzo Multimedia, HST323CD) *2016 -

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- ''I'll Walk With The Stars For You'' (Vincebus Eruptum, VELP013) *2016 -

& Clearlight - ''The Roadmap In Your Head'' (Gonzo Multimedia, HST423CD) *2016 - Flame Tree - ''Flam Tree Featuring Nik Turner'' (Purple Pyramid, a division of

) *2017 - WARFARE the first brand new album in 25 years, narrating the classic brainstorm over a filthy riff igh Roller Recordsownload (Nightmare Mix) Plastic Head Records. *2022 -

''Recollections Of Instrumentals'' (Purple Pyramid, CLO 3657)

Various artists

*1983 – " Field Marshal Slug; Punk Sax Live Genius. – Live. *1985 – '' Hawkwind, Friends and Relations Volume 2'' – "

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" *1995 – ''Saucerful of Pink: A Tribute to Pink Floyd'' – "Careful With That Axe Eugene" *2017 – ''All Of Us Pilgrims - A tribute to music of Peter Hammill & Van Der Graaf Generator by musicians from The Top Of The World Club Facebook Group'' – "Pilgrims" *2020 - Sex Drugs and HIV - ''The Studio Sessions'' DVD featuring on "Hashish" and "Tortured Genious" (Plastichead) *2022 – ''Flipside Freaks Purple'' – "Purse" by

(Flicknife SHARP CD22124)

References

External links

https://nikturnermusic.bandcamp.com/ * * *
Trilogy Rock: Interview to Nik Turner (2009)
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