Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters

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Like fellow weirdo Frank Zappa, the spoken humorous dialogue is part droll and part outright gruesome,

In Vitro Breed (Voiceprint VP387, recorded at The International, Manchester, 25 October 1987, released 2006. Double CD) Obviously, there's nothing any more complex than two or three chord progressions, but that's never beenStoddart, Lee (21 December 2019). "Thanet Writers Spotlight Robert Calvert". thanetwriters.com . Retrieved 4 November 2022.

Widowmaker", the tantalizing cynical charm of "The Right Stuff", the petulant "Hero with a Wing", the brutal sheer genius, interfaced with more sarcastic dialogue , giving space (sic!) to such tunes as the lurid "The variant ("G for Germany") kept crashing in flames in droves killing young German pilots in the process! At the Queen Elizabeth Hall (Clear Records 1989, live album recorded on 1 October 1986. Reissued in 1993 as BGOCD 187)production and fine-grain quantisation, and you're not looking for dazzling displays of virtuosity or Hawkwind were full-throttle by the time Robert Calvert began pencilling in the notes for a satirical stage play about doomed fighter pilots. 1971’s iconic In Search Of Space had already hit No. 18 on the UK charts and the single Silver Machine had reached No.3, paving the way for the double-live, performance-art extravaganza that was Space Ritual, another Top 10 album in 1973. Calvert entered the studio in the spring of 1973 to start working on the album, a process that would take more than 12 months to complete. The cast list of musicians read like a Who’s Who of the British musical underground, including members of Hawkwind and fellow Ladbroke Grove denizens the Pink Fairies, Arthur Brown and Roxy Music man Brian Eno. Piss-taking narration was provided by Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s charismatic frontman Vivian Stanshall. famous as a Hawkwind stalwart, performing on numerous albums including the quivering Hawklords -"25 explorations of various parts of the developing story (no spoilers here), and the songs are all fun, as well

Test-tube Baby of Mine (1986) directed by Paul Jerricho, with Chris Cresswell and Ghislaine Rump in the cast Talk about original. Robert Calvert was probably one of the true oddball prog figures, a combination Ejection" (coupled with "Catch a Falling Starfighter") was released as a single, although both songs are slightly different versions to those on the album. "The Widow's Song" was included in the libretto and Calvert had hoped to record it with Nico singing. It wasn't recorded at the time but it was eventually recorded in 1984 with Calvert's wife Jill Riches on lead vocals and included on the Hawkwind, Friends and Relations Vol.3 compilation.

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Brian Eno (as Brian Peter George St John La Baptiste De La Salle) - Synthesizer and electronic effects Musicians who appeared on the album include members of Hawkwind, The Pink Fairies, Brian Eno (although not credited as Eno), Arthur Brown and Adrian Wagner. The spoken sketches are primarily performed by Calvert, Viv Stanshall and Jim Capaldi. especially given that it was released in 1974. If you can do that thing with your ears which is the would. If you're looking to expand your Hawkwind collection, though, this is a good addition, very much in Bailes, Kathy (11 May 2018). "Hawkwind and why their Dreamland gig is a homecoming (of sorts)". The Isle Of Thanet News . Retrieved 29 November 2021.

During its time in service of the German Luftwaffe, the German version of the F-104, the F-104G, suffered a staggering 29 per cent crash rate which would result in the deaths of 108 pilots. For a nation in peacetime it was a staggering figure, and in the annals of military history it’s a chapter that would generally come to be known as the Starfighter Crisis. The frequency of incidents would soon become the subject of bitter ridicule in the press. The running joke was that best way to own a jet was to simply buy a plot of land. It wasn’t far off. precision of any sort, then you will definitely enjoy the raw resonance and sonic splendours of this album, Despite a lukewarm reception to this uniquely satirical, am-dram proto-punk masterpiece, there were younger ears to whom Calvert’s vision would inspire. Calvert was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and moved with his parents to England when he was two. [3] He attended school in London and Margate, living in a flat in Arlington House. [4] Having finished school he joined the Air Training Corps, in which he became a corporal and played trumpet for the 438 Squadron band. [5] He then went on to college in Canterbury. After leaving college, and having been denied his childhood dream of becoming a fighter pilot, he slowly acquainted himself with the UK's bohemian scene. Calvert began his career in earnest by writing poetry. [6] Career [ edit ]If you're not accustomed to the ways of Hawkwind, this isn't a bad introduction to their material, and will The stream of fighters and bombers and their crews taking off and landing would leave a deep imprint on the young Calvert’s mind. In his teens, he would join the Air Training Corps, where he reached the rank of corporal and played trumpet for the 438th Squadron band. But his dream of becoming a fighter pilot was crushed by an inner ear defect. It was a disappointment that Calvert would never shake.