Space Rock
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Pink Floyd: 'We Feel Good' Say The Pink Floyd
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 21 October 1967
LITTLE DID Mike Leonard know, during the second half of the nineteen-forties, that the experiments he was making in a new art form he was ...
Pink Floyd: Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham
Live Review by Michael Watts, Walsall Observer & South Staffordshire Chronicle, 27 June 1969
SOUND SPELL CAST BY THE FLOYD ...
Pink Floyd: Exclusive interview by Richard Williams
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1 November 1969
PINK FLOYD are a visionary group of creators. Their music flies so high and wild that it can bring a kaleidoscope of images to your ...
Hawkwind: The Hawk: sailing in the face of the wind
Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
HAWKWIND ARE the progressive band, who, they say, are too progressive for British progressive clubs, and receive few bookings because of that fact. ...
Pink Floyd: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 19 October 1971
Pink Floyd Performs at Santa Monica Civic ...
Pink Floyd: Electric Chaos, But Just Great
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 29 January 1972
Tony Stewart at the debut of Pink Floyd's new masterpiece. ...
Hawkwind: The Truth About Hawkwind
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 5 February 1972
LIKE THEM or not, you must admit that Hawkwind are honest. Guitarist Dave Brock is not loath to admit that most of the band's musicians ...
Pink Floyd (part 1): 'Things Just Somehow Happen To Us — We Don't Plan'
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 12 February 1972
SIX YEARS ago an evening with Pink Floyd resembled a riot, with bottles, glasses and verbal abuse being hurled in their direction. ...
Pink Floyd (part 2): Simple But Not Banal
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 19 February 1972
LAST WEEK, NICK Mason talked at length about the evolution of Pink Floyd up to the Atom Heart Mother stage. The policy of the band ...
Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds (Harvest 11078)
Review by Dan Nooger, Fusion, October 1972
WITH THE arrival of Meddle last year, even Pink Floyd's most ardent followers must have found themselves wondering if the group hadn't outlived themselves. The ...
Pink Floyd: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 28 October 1972
Quadraphonic Smokebombs ...
Hawkwind: Cosmic Calypso And Sonic Surprise
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 11 November 1972
UNLESS YOU'RE DEAF, dumb and blind, or alternatively haven't been keeping up with the music press, you will know that Hawkwind embark this week upon ...
Amon Düül (I & II), Hawkwind, Pink Floyd: The Future Will Happen This Year: Space Rock
Overview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, March 1973
RIGHT NOW we're gonna go back, way back, back before there was FM radio, quadrasonic sound, mellotrons, or any of the other futuristic trappings that ...
Pink Floyd: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 22 March 1973
A PINK FLOYD appearance here has always been worth coming out in the rain for and has often been a full-fledged event, like the American ...
Hawkwind: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 27 November 1973
Britain's Hawkwind Gives Earthy Rock The Cosmic Touch ...
Hawkwind: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 29 November 1973
HAWKWIND BROUGHT their Space Ritual to the Academy of Music Sunday night. They should have left it upstairs with all the other garbage orbiting the ...
Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: A Nice Pair — The Pink Floyd LPs That Failed
Overview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
They finally became stars on their ninth album, The Dark Side of the Moon, but they were first led around to the dark side of the psyche ...
Hawkwind: Reaching out for higher flings
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 2 February 1974
Hawkwind's Stacia acts it out. Disc's Caroline Boucher writes it down ...
Hawkwind: The Regular 'Wind Miracle
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 30 November 1974
NEW YORK just doesn't seem to be the place for Hawkwind. ...
Hawkwind: Hall Of The Mountain Grill (United Artists)
Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 19 December 1974
FOR THEIR first four albums, public approval of Hawkwind was in direct proportion to how seriously one considered the music. The question of quality or ...
Pink Floyd: Vancouver, BC; Seattle WA; San Francisco CA
Live Review by David Rensin, Sounds, 3 May 1975
Trapped on the Moon ...
Pink Floyd: Los Angeles Sports Arena
Live Review by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1975
Space Rock: Floydian Slip ...
David Bowie: Back With 'Oddity'
Report by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 8 November 1975
BASICALLY A high-class novelty record, 'Space Oddity', now topping the chart, was first released on 11 July 1969. At the time, the Main Man himself ...
Pink Floyd: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Ed Jones, The Spectator, 26 March 1977
PINK FLOYD — DECLINE AND FALL ...
Pink Floyd: Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 23 February 1980
WALL OF SECRETS ...
Pink Floyd: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 5 August 1980
PINK FLOYD'S The Wall, which has already achieved enormous success as a set of two long-playing records, is first and finally an elaborate vehicle for ...
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 29 July 1982
FOR HERMAN Blount, life has never been the same since he decided to change his name. A former big-band piano player, Herman metamorphosed into Sun ...
Bob Geldof, Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd and Bob Geldof: Pink Isn't Well
Report and Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Creem, December 1982
AS A PINK Floyd fanatic, my biggest fear has always been that on some apocalyptic night as I sat with the rest of the Pinkoid ...
Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder (Columbia)
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 26 January 1989
THIS LIVE double-LP set documents Pink Floyd's enormously successful 1987-88 world tour. Although it was inevitable, releasing a live record is still a bit strange, ...
Hawkwind: Space Rock with Humor
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 23 November 1990
CULT BANDS tend to suffer the slings and arrows of the non-believers, and Hawkwind, perhaps England's quintessential cult band, knows it better than most. They've ...
Combustible Edison, Esquivel, Stereolab: Incredibly Strange Music: The Revenge of the Un-Hip
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 February 1995
IT'S OFFICIAL: IT'S HIP TO BE square. Collectors are paying top dollar for original albums from such '50s and '60s easy-listening fare as LP's designed ...
Odysseys and Oddities: Jon Savage compiles the definitive Space-Rock Tape
Guide by Jon Savage, MOJO, March 1995
MUSIC AND THE cosmos have a special relationship, bound by mathematics, spirituality and that basic human need to get out there. Just as important as ...
Spiritualized: Stars In His Eyes
Interview by Kodwo Eshun, i-D, August 1998
Spiritualized are aiming higher than the sun. Ladies and gentlemen, they'll soon be floating in space as one of Britain's biggest bands ...
Spiritualized: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 3 October 2001
THE LIVE ALBUM is traditionally the wooden spoon of rock releases, dumped on the public either to fulfil a contract or bide time until the ...
Hawkwind: Ian Abrahams: Hawkwind – Sonic Assassins
Book Review by John Doran, Classic Rock, November 2004
PSYCH-ROCK visionaries Hawkwind have undeniably one of the most interesting stories in rock: paranoia, madness, drugs, fatal road accidents, not to mention startlingly inventive music ...
Hawkwind: The Dave Brock Interview
Interview by Rahul Shrivastava, bbc.co.uk, May 2005
Hawkwind guitarist Dave Brock put aside his latest space expedition to talk to Rahul Shrivastava about his life as a Psychedelic Warlord. ...
Hawkwind: The Making Of 'Silver Machine'
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, September 2007
Drugs, insanity and a "Chuck Berry riff played backwards"; Hawkwind tell the story of 'Silver Machine', the only Top 3 single ever recorded entirely on ...
Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2007
Messed-Up, blissed-out '90s Psychedelia. Still Haunting, Still Huge. ...
Guide by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 27 July 2008
ONE OF BRITISH rock's most enduring hippie institutions, Hawkwind formed in 1969 and staked their claim as heroes of the counterculture by playing a free ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 25 February 2014
THEY MAY HAIL from San Francisco, but trance-rockers Wooden Shjips have clearly left their hearts elsewhere — in the mid-'70s Germany of Krautrockers Neu! and ...
The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized: Will Carruthers: Spaced
Interview by Julian Marszalek, Bass Guitar, January 2017
After playing bass with Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dead Skeletons, what's a man to do? Write a memoir of course. Julian ...
Spiritualized: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 23 September 2018
By turns poignant and defiant, the soulful rock'n'roll wastrel Jason Pierce turns up the feedback and faces down his mortality – flanked by a horn ...
Hawkwind: In Search Of Hawkwind
Retrospective by Adam Blake, Rock's Backpages, October 2022
SO, IN A FIT of nostalgia for my old Ladbroke Grove stomping ground, I spent rather more money than I anticipated picking up a first ...
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