''Take Me to Your Leader'' is the twenty fourth studio

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by UK rock group

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 ...

. Released in 2005, it was their first studio album in five years. It featured guest appearances by

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, the television presenter Matthew Wright and past member

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. The first 2000 copies came with a DVD containing interviews with band members and some live and "behind the scenes" footag

Track listing

CD

#"Spirit of the Age" (Brock, Calvert) – 6:43 #"Out Here We Are" (Davey) – 5:56 #"Greenback Massacre" (Davey) – 4:14 #"To Love a Machine" (Brock) – 6:00 #"Take Me to Your Leader" (Brock, Chadwick, Davey) – 5:50 #"Digital Nation" (Chadwick) – 5:25 #"Sunray" (Brown) – 3:55 #"Sighs" (Brock, Davey) – 1:22 #"Angela Android" (Brock, Chadwick) – 5:08 #"A Letter to Robert" (Brock, Brown, Chadwick) – 6:08

Bonus DVD

#Interview With Dave Brock #Interview With Alan Davey #Interview With Richard Chadwick #"Spirit of the Age" – Promo #"Silver Machine" – Ruisrock Festival, Finland, 10 July 2004 #"The Right to Decide" – Live 1992 #"Spirit of the Age" – Live 2004 #"Psychedelic Warriors" – Live 2004

Personnel

;Hawkwind *

Dave Brock David Anthony Brock (born 20 August 1941) is an English musician. He plays electric guitar, keyboards, bass and oscillators. He is a founder, sole constant member and musical focus of the space rock group Hawkwind.Allmusic– Dave Brock biogra ...

–

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

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* Alan Davey –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, vocals, keyboards *Richard Chadwick –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, percussion and programming ;with *James Clemas – organ (tracks 1 and 7) * Matthew Wright – vocals (track 1) *Jez Huggett –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

(tracks 2 and 6) *

Jason Stuart Jason Stuart (born Stuart Ted Greif; January 13, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. Life and career Born in The Bronx, New York, Stuart was raised in Los Angeles, California. He is openly gay, and is the chair of the Screen Actors Guil ...

– keyboards (tracks 3 and 4) *

Simon House Simon House (born 29 August 1948 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is a British composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind. Career Before his time with Ha ...

– keyboards and

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

(tracks 7 and 9) *

– vocals (tracks 7 and 10) *

– vocals (track 9) *

– vocals, bass (DVD track 5) *Phil Caivano – guitar (DVD track 5)

References

{{Authority control 2005 albums Hawkwind albums Albums produced by Dave Brock