{"id":870,"date":"2008-08-24T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=870"},"modified":"2011-03-30T22:41:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:41:17","slug":"hawklords-charisma-records-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/hawklords-charisma-records-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawklords – Charisma Records – 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"

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25 Years<\/a><\/p>\n

Only The Dead Dreams Of A Cold War Kid \/ P.X.R.5<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dave Brock and Robert Calvert\u2019s \u2018Hawkwind\u2019 band that lasted two years during the legal hassles of who owned the rights to the \u2018Hawkwind\u2019 name during 1978.<\/p>\n

This is the second Hawklords single, and is also a track off the excellent Hawklords (first and only) LP entitled \u201925 Years On\u2019. For obvious reasons I did not chance putting up that LP, but if you like this single then go out and buy the CD if it still available, or search for the original LP in rare record collector shops\u2026<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0tracks on this 12\u2033 single\u00a0seem suprisingly \u2018new wave\u2019\u00a0compared to the generic sound that Hawkwind possessed all through the rest of the 1970\u2019s. The previous Hawkwind LP featuring both Calvert and Brock released in 1977 \u2018Quark Strangeness And Charm\u2019 hinted at a new sound, but with the emergence of Hawklords\u00a0and Inner City Unit (Nic Turner\u2019s late 1970\u2019s outfit) these older\u00a0artists from both sides of the Hawkwind camp, were suddenly accepted and firmly embraced by the\u00a0much younger punk generation.\u00a0Pretty sure I heard Inner City Unit and Hawklords material as a nipper, way before I even knew who Hawkwind were (stop giggling, I was young and more into 2 Tone and The Clash\u00a0in the late 1970\u2019s!!!) Made up for that though, when I bulk bought original pressings of all the Hawkwind LP\u2019s from 1970 \u2013 1977\u00a0within a couple of years in the early 1980\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n

Inner City Unit\u2019s debut LP is uploaded on this site somewhere, use the search function.<\/p>\n

Born in 1978, out of the ashes of the Sonic Assassins, Hawklords was the brainchild of the late, great Robert Calvert. The band\u2019s debut release, on the Charisma label, was the album 25 Years On (later editions were released simply as \u201cHawklords\u201d). It featured eight excellent tracks, all but one co-written by Calvert, and marked a significant departure from the spacey sounds of earlier Hawkwind material. 25 Years On peaked at number 48 in the charts. Two singles were also released: Psi Power and 25 Years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barney Bubbles was involved in the design, and the stage sets for the supporting tour. The overall idea was based on a company called Pan Transcendental Industries, which was a factory that manufactured car doors to replace angels\u2019 wings \u2013 a very avant-garde mixture of Fritz Lang and Mao Tse Tung visually.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1983 Barney left the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1988 Robert Calvert headed for the gods alone know where.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

25 Years Only The Dead Dreams Of A Cold War Kid \/ P.X.R.5 Dave Brock and Robert Calvert\u2019s \u2018Hawkwind\u2019 band that lasted two years during the legal hassles of who owned the rights to the \u2018Hawkwind\u2019 name during 1978. This is the second Hawklords single, and is also a track off the excellent Hawklords (first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}