“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 ...

“People look back now and think of Hawkwind as this sort of hippie peace and love group. But it was never that,” says Lemmy, one of the band’s original self-styled ‘captains.’ “We weren’t looking for ...

“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 ...

First up is Sam Lee’s Nightingale, a beautifully made hardback, packed with illustrations, facts, stories, lore, and more. While the focus here is avian song and the projective wonders of the syrinx, ...