Hawkwind is an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups.… Read Full Bio ↴Hawkwind is an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups. The band was formed by ex-busker and blues man Dave Brock in Ladbroke Grove, London, who intended to marry simple three-chord rock with experimental electronic music. He cites his influences for the band at the time as The Moody Blues, Steve Miller Band and the krautrock scene of Kraftwerk, Neu! and particularly Can.

The band was formed in 1969 by visionary Dave Brock and although it has been subject to numerous line-up changes it is still led by him. The early line-up featured Dave Brock on vocals and rhythm guitar, Huw Lloyd-Langton on lead guitar, Terry Ollis on drums, Thomas Crimble on bass, Nik Turner on Saxophone and Dik Mik on synthesizer.

The band became established as a space-rock underground band with their renowned concert at the Glastonbury Rock Festival 1970 when they set up in an alternative field and played a free concert, pulling crowds away from the main event. Their debut album, the self titled ‘HAWKWIND’, was released by EMI and to this day still sells steadily. In 1970 they appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival where Jimi Hendrix was spotted in the audience. He was asked to get up and join the band and he replied ‘No I don’t want to spoil it!’ Huw Lloyd-Langton remained with them until late 1971. The band shot to fame in 1972 with their hit record ‘Silver Machine’ featuring Lemmy (now of Motörhead fame) on vocals. (This record featured in the soundtrack of a recent TV Mazda advert in the UK). In 1973 Simon House (Electric Violin) joined, and throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s, the renowned World famous Sci-fi author, Michael Moorcock often recorded and appeared with them.

Lemmy was sacked from the band in 1975 after a drugs bust in USA, and went on to form ‘MOTORHEAD’, named after the last track he wrote for the band, a slang term for speed freak. Huw Lloyd-Langton joined Leo Sayer in 1974 and then in 1975 went on to form supergroup ‘WIDOWMAKER’ WITH Steve Ellis (Love Affair), Luther Grosvenor (Mott The Hoople), Paul Nicholls (Lindisfarne) and Bob Daisley (Ozzy Osborne). In 1977, Simon House joined David Bowie. Dave Brock and poet Bob Calvert tour as ‘HAWKLORDS’, performing the stage show ‘METROPOLIS’. Throughout the 70's, Hawkwind released a series of classic albums; ‘IN SEARCH OF SPACE’, ‘DOREMI FASOL LATIDO’, ‘SPACE RITUAL’,
‘HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN GRILL’, ‘WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME’, ‘ASTOUNDING SOUNDS, AMAZING MUSIC’, ‘QUARK STRANGENESS & CHARM’ and ‘PXR 5’. In 1979, Dave formed another nucleus with Huw Lloyd-Langton on lead guitar, Simon King on drums, Harvey Bainbridge (from Hawklords) on bass and Tim Blake from ‘Gong’ on keyboards.

Their live album ‘LIVE 79’ went straight into the national top ten charts chart. In 1980 Ginger Baker replaced Simon King on drums and they recorded their classic album ‘LEVITATION’. Once again, the release went straight into national top ten album chart. Tim Blake and Ginger Baker remaied with the band until after the Christmas Tour 1980. From 1979 to 1985 the band’s singles and albums were never out of the national, independent and heavy metal charts, with albums such as ‘SONIC ATTACK, ‘CHURCH OF HAWKWIND', 'CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK SWORD, 'LIVE CHRONICLES' AND 'XENON CODEX'. Nik Turner who left the band in 1975 briefly rejoined the band 1982-1983 for the ‘CHOOSE YOUR MASQUES’ tour. In 1984 Alan Davey replaces Harvey Bainbridge on bass and Harvey moved over to keyboards and synths. In 1985 the band tour with the spectacular ‘CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK SWORD’, a stageshow portraying music and images based on Michael Moorcock’s epic saga, ‘ELRIC’. During this period the band reached a new audience with the emergence of ambient acts such as The Orb openly acknowledging Hawkwind’s influence.

Huw Lloyd-Langton remained with the band throughout the end of the 80s, departing in 1989 followed
shortly after by Harvey Bainbridge. The band continued to perform live throughout the nineties, and had
some noteable album releases such as, 'SPACE BANDITS', 'PALACE SPRINGS', 'ELECTRIC TEPEE',
'IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE FUTURE TO BE DANGEROUS', 'THE BUSINESS TRIP', 'ALIEN 4',
'LOVE IN SPACE' and 'DISTANT HORIZONS'. During their entire existence the band have performed numerous free concerts, notably STONEHENGE and have supported various charities, which include SHELTER, when in 1977 at the Blackheath Concert Halls they raised thousands of pounds for the homeless, and even released a charity single version of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" with Samantha Fox guesting on vocals. N.A.S.A. in the USA have also used sound tracks from the ‘LOVE IN SPACE release. In 1997 they headlined the ‘1ST SPACEROCK FESTIVAL USA’. In 2000, the band staged the highly successful ‘HAWKESTRA’ event at the London Brixton Academy, which saw many past members reunited on stage with a nucleus of Dave Brock, Ron Tree, Jerry Richards, Hugh Lloyd-Langton, Simon House, Richard Chadwick, Alan Davey and Tim Blake. In 2001 they were voted the 8th top progressive band in the country on Channel 4 TV. The band have recently released a double live cd recording of their Xmas 2000 'Yule Ritual' show at the London Astoria, as well as the Arthur Brown helmed 'Out of the Shadows' in 2007.The concept of a Hawkestra, a reunion event featuring appearances from all past and present members, had originally been intended to coincide with the band's 30th anniversary and the release of the career spanning Epocheclipse – 30 Year Anthology set, but logistical problems delayed it until 21 October 2000. It took place at the Brixton Academy with about 20 members taking part in a 3+ hour set which was filmed and recorded. Guests included Samantha Fox who sang Master of the Universe. However, arguments and disputes over financial recompense and musical input resulted in the prospect of the event being restaged unlikely, and any album or DVD release being indefinitely shelved.The Hawkestra had set a template for Brock to assemble a core band of Tree, Brock, Richards, Davey, Chadwick and for the use of former members as guests on live shows and studio recordings. The 2000 Christmas Astoria show was recorded with contributions from House, Blake, Rizz, Moorcock, Jez Huggett and Keith Kniveton and released as Yule Ritual the following year.

In 2001, Davey agreed to rejoin the band permanently, but only afiter the departure of Tree and Richards.
Meanwhile, having rekindled relationships with old friends at the Hawkestra, Turner organised further Hawkestra gigs resulting in the formation of xhawkwind.com, a band consisting mainly of ex-Hawkwind members and playing old Hawkwind songs. 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. Turner lost the case and the band now perform as Space Ritual.
An appearance at the Canterbury Sound Festival in August 2001, resulting in another live album Canterbury Fayre 2001, saw guest appearances from Lloyd-Langton, House, Kniveton with Arthur Brown on "Silver Machine". The band organised the first of their own weekend festivals, named Hawkfest, in Devon in the summer of 2002. Brown joined the band in 2002 for a Winter tour which featured some Kingdom Come songs and saw appearances from Blake and Lloyd-Langton, the Newcastle show being released on DVD as Out of the Shadows and the London show on CD as Spaced Out in London.
In 2005 the long anticipated new album Take Me to Your Leader was released. Recorded by the core band of Brock/Davey/Chadwick, contributors included new keyboardist Jason Stuart, Arthur Brown, tabloid writer and TV personality Matthew Wright, 1970s New Wave singer Lene Lovich, Simon House and Jez Huggett. This was followed in 2006 by the CD/DVD disc Take Me to Your Future.

The band were the subject of an hour-long television documentary entitled Hawkwind: Do Not Panic that aired on BBC Four as part of the Originals series. It was broadcast on 30 March 2007 and repeated on 10 August 2007. Although Brock participated in its making he did not appear in the programme, it is alleged that he requested all footage of himself be removed after he was denied any artistic control over the documentary.. In one of the documentary's opening narratives regarding Brock, it is stated that he declined to be interviewed for the programme because of Nik Turner's involvement, indicating that the two men have still not been reconciled over the xhawkwind.com incident.

June 2007 saw the departure of Alan Davey, who left to perform and record with two new bands: Gunslinger and Thunor. He was replaced by "Mr Dibs", a long-standing member of the road crew and bassist for the bands Spacehead and Krel (who had supported Hawkwind during 1992). The band performed at their annual Hawkfest festival and headlined the US festival NEARfest and played gigs in PA and NY. At the end of 2007, Tim Blake once again joined the band filling the lead role playing keyboards and theremin. The band played 5 Christmas dates, the London show being released as an audio CD and video DVD under the title Knights of Space.

The band's official Website is to be found at www.hawkwind.com

HAWKWIND and solo projects: Dave Brock, Nik Turner, Inner City Unit, Lemmy, Motorhead, Huw Lloyd Langton Group, Robert Calvert, Alan Davey, Bedouin, Michael Moorcock Deep Fix, Harvey Bainbridge, Agents Of Chaos ,Space Ritual, Spiral Realms,ect.A truly prolific act !

Love in space
Hawkwind Lyrics

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Love in space I dream of you
Love in space I scream to you
Love in space I cry for you
Love in space I fly to you

Drifting in our capsules of icy mist
The ship of dreams sails...

Love in space I dream of you
Love in space I plead for you
Love in space I sigh for you
Love in space I'd die for you

Drifting in our capsules of icy mist
The ship of dreams sails...
Love in space
Love in space
Love in space
Love in space

Drifting in our capsules of icy mist
The ship of dreams sails
On and on...

You say there's life out there in the galaxy
Our worlds in collision
You say that's a fallacy
It's no use sending rockets into space
Hoping to meet a supreior race

Most of our problems are here on Earth
Our planet's still living
It's our place of birth

Love in space I dream of you
Love in space I scream to you
Love in space I cry for you
Love in space I fly to you
Love in space I dream of you
Love in space I plead for you

Love in space I sigh for you
Love in space I'd die for you

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of "Love in Space" by Hawkwind convey a sense of yearning and longing for connection across vast distances. The repetition of the phrase "love in space" throughout the song emphasizes this theme, as the singer dreams, screams, cries, pleads, sighs, and would even die for the object of their affection. The imagery of drifting in capsules of icy mist and sailing on the ship of dreams further underscores the idea of a journey through the void of space, where feelings of love and separation are heightened.

The song also touches on the idea of extraterrestrial life and our fascination with the possibility of encountering intelligent beings from other planets. The singer mentions the belief that there is life out there in the galaxy, but dismisses the idea of sending rockets to meet a superior race. Instead, the focus is on our own planet and the issues we face here, implying that perhaps the search for connection and meaning should be directed closer to home.

Overall, "Love in Space" is a poetic meditation on love, longing, and the vastness of the universe that leaves the listener with a sense of awe and contemplation.

Line by Line Meaning

Love in space I dream of you
I imagine a romantic relationship with you while floating in the vast emptiness of the universe.

Love in space I scream to you
I express my love for you with a passionate yell that echoes through the infinite expanse of the cosmos.

Love in space I cry for you
I shed tears of longing for you, hoping that somehow, someday, we will be together among the stars.

Love in space I fly to you
I transcend the limits of gravity and soar towards you with all the velocity of a shooting star, fueled by my desire for your company.

Drifting in our capsules of icy mist
We float weightlessly in our spacecraft, surrounded by a cold vaporous haze that obscures the endless void beyond.

The ship of dreams sails...
Our vessel, a beacon of hope and yearning, navigates the boundless reaches of space in pursuit of love and adventure.

You say there's life out there in the galaxy
You believe in the possibility of other sentient beings existing beyond our planet, scattered among the countless stars and planets.

Our worlds in collision
There are conflicting opinions and beliefs regarding the nature of extraterrestrial life and how it may interact with humanity.

You say that's a fallacy
You deny the existence of other life forms in the universe, dismissing it as a baseless myth or unprovable hypothesis.

It's no use sending rockets into space
You express skepticism that any potential contact with alien life could be achieved through the primitive technology of spacecraft and rockets.

Hoping to meet a superior race
There is a desire to make contact with beings that are more advanced and enlightened than humans, to learn from their wisdom and understanding.

Most of our problems are here on Earth
Our biggest issues and conflicts are all centered on our own planet and its inhabitants, not extraterrestrial entities.

Our planet's still living
Despite the many challenges we face, Earth is still a thriving biosphere teeming with richness and diversity.

Love in space I dream of you
I continue to harbor romantic thoughts of you, envisioning a future where we share the vast cosmic expanse together.

Love in space I plead for you
I implore you to join me on this incredible journey among the stars, to experience the wonders of the universe as one united entity.

Love in space I sigh for you
I emit a wistful sigh at the mere thought of you, reminiscing about past moments and dreaming of what may lie ahead.

Love in space I'd die for you
I express the extreme depth of my passion for you, stating that I would make the ultimate sacrifice for your happiness and well-being.

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