Stacia Blake: the beating heart and topless soul of Hawkwind
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Warriors On The Edge: When Lemmy got booted from Hawkwind
Cover by John Coulthart 1975 was a watershed year for Hawkwind – it marked the release of what for many fans is the band’s finest…
Hawkwind go symphonic on ‘Road to Utopia’
If you are a longtime reader of this blog, follow me on Twitter or happen to be married to me (or a neighbor within earshot…
Imaginary pinball machines of Hawkwind, The Stooges, Jim Jones, and more
If you’re as much of a pinball nut as I am, you’ll flip over these fantasy back glass illustrations by Charlie Fogel. Illustrator/cartoonist, Fogel has…
When Hawkwind went all new-wave
The Hawklords, live in 1978 This week one of my favorite music writers, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, published an article at Cuepoint titled “Paul Plays Synths:…
‘The Sonic Assassins’: Groovy psychedelic comic starring Hawkwind, 1971
This fantastic two-page comic appeared in the British underground magazine Frendz in November 1971. At the start this comic credits Michael Moorcock for the “words”…
Stacia, Hawkwind’s buxom cosmic dancer discusses her wild sex life in vintage interviews
Stacia as pictured in the iconic ‘Space Ritual’ fold out sleeve designed by Barney Bubbles You read Dangerous Minds for the articles, right? Sure you…
Hawkwind’s ‘Galactic Tarot’ deck, 1971
A couple of weeks ago Arthur’s Jay Babcock tweeted that he had stumbled upon a fascinating two-page Hawkwind spread while “trolling thru the online International…
Hawkwind poet Robert Calvert’s prophetic sci-fi noir ‘The Kid From Silicon Gulch’
In 1981, the idea of something like the Internet and its physical conduit, the personal computer, becoming deeply intertwined with our work and lives, still…
The Hawkwind sci-fi trilogy
There are lots of ways to have fun with Hawkwind albums, but one of the more wholesome is to pretend that the members of the…