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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 ...

Sun Ra: The Venue, London

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: The Final Cut (Columbia)

Review by Jim Farber, Creem, July 1983

WATERS IN THE BRAIN ...

David Gilmour, Roger Waters: Roger Waters: The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (Columbia); David Gilmour: About Face (Columbia)

Review by Ira Robbins, Record, August 1984

WHEN PINK Floyd stopped creating cabin music for space craft, the group entered an extremely fruitful three album period that remains the pinnacle of their ...

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. ...

Hawkwind: Down Time: Hawkwind

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 ...

Wooden Shjips: Dos

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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