The Beatles' "Across the Universe" and Hawkwind's "Silver Machine" share a launching pad for the first round of our Rock Star Wars battle. You decide whose rocket ride plummets back down to earth. To ...

“Silver Machine” was not followed-up in trusted music biz fashion by another hit-seeking single but by the band’s third album, late November’s Doremi Fasol Latido, and an end-of-year tour which was ...

“In about 1972 or 73 I used to go to Macari’s in Charing Cross Road every Saturday to muck about on the Korg 700S. I’d drive the guy in the shop mad – he’d kick me out after half an hour. But I did ...

At 73, Nik Turner certainly qualifies as an old hippie. But rather than burn out or fade away, this veteran saxophonist, flutist and vocalist leads an iteration of Hawkwind, the pioneering English ...