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Hawkwind

Why do drugs tend to inspire creativity in the arts?

“That gig you did in 1971 changed my life”: The band who gave out acid to their own audience

“You sure it wasn’t the acid?”

Dale Maplethorpe
Jun 9, 2026
Jimi Hendrix - Lemmy Kilmister - Far Out Magazine

The moment Jimi Hendrix gave Lemmy 100,000 tabs of LSD: “There was only two of us”

Groovy.

Arun Starkey
May 6, 2026
Hawkwind - Band - 1970s

How Hawkwind’s “most popular” song upset their former bassist

Bitter.

Reuben Cross
Feb 24, 2026
Lemmy - Lemmy Kilmister - Motörhead - 2011

How a lack of experience made Lemmy a bass legend: “I’d never played one before”

The four string on a whim.

Dale Maplethorpe
Feb 18, 2026
When Vera Lynn played a gig with Hawkwind and Lemmy

The night when Vera Lynn played a gig with Hawkwind and Lemmy

Fair play.

Tom Phelan
Nov 6, 2025
Hawkwind - Band - 1970s

When Hawkwind figured out how to disorientate police sniffer dogs

Ingenious.

Tom Phelan
Oct 25, 2025
The Story Behind the Song- Blue Öyster Cult's 'Veteran of the Psychic Wars'

The Story Behind The Song: Blue Öyster Cult’s ‘Veteran of the Psychic Wars’

“Oh, please, don’t let these shakes go on…”

Tom Phelan
Jul 8, 2025
Lemmy - Lemmy Kilmister - Motörhead - 2006

What songs were recorded by both Hawkwind and Motörhead?

“…Star Trek on drugs”.

Tom Phelan
Jun 23, 2025
Simon House - 2025

Simon House, Hawkwind and David Bowie musician, dead at 76

No cause of death has been revealed.

Joe Taysom
May 26, 2025
Ginger Baker - Drummer - Cream - 1980

The psychedelic icons Ginger Baker called “appalling”

Controversial.

Dale Maplethorpe
May 11, 2025
Kyuss - Band - Original Line Up - 1990s - Desert Stoner Rock

The origins of Kyuss: the bands Brant Bjork calls “low desert punk”

An interesting term.

Tom Phelan
Feb 4, 2025
Lemmy - Lemmy Kilmister - Motörhead - 2006

‘Silver Machine’: The song that launched Lemmy Kilmister into the stratosphere

Seeing stars.

Lauren Hunter
Jan 12, 2025

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