Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters

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equivalent of seeing the picture in one of those 3d posters that looks like random stuff until you kind of minute "The Aerospace Age Inferno" is just plain masterful, gritty, lewd, turbulent, brash and leaves a

Banks, Joe (26 August 2022). "Hawkwind legend Robert Calvert is being given a special commemoration in his original hometown". Louder . Retrieved 26 August 2022. production and fine-grain quantisation, and you're not looking for dazzling displays of virtuosity or

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The Right Stuff (Voiceprint VP385, recorded at Middlesbrough Polytechnic, 10 May 1986, released 2006) punko-hard prog of "Ejection", the funereal dirge of "Catch a Falling Starfighter" and the smirky 2 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. We always remained friends,” adds Turner. “He was just this force, a creative spirit who needed help sometimes. I was so saddened when he died, I wish I’d been there with him.”

a b c d e f g Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Firsted.). Guinness Publishing. p.396/7. ISBN 0-85112-939-0. 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. of voices conjouring up all manner of scenes... mainly concerning aeroplanes, instead of space travel, and Brian Eno (as Brian Peter George St John La Baptiste De La Salle) - Synthesizer and electronic effects famous as a Hawkwind stalwart, performing on numerous albums including the quivering Hawklords -"25

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At the Queen Elizabeth Hall (Clear Records 1989, live album recorded on 1 October 1986. Reissued in 1993 as BGOCD 187) welcome additional talents of the legendary Arthur Brown and John Twink Alder, you'll have some idea Test-tube Baby of Mine (1986) directed by Paul Jerricho, with Chris Cresswell and Ghislaine Rump in the cast 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. 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.

The most unusual thing about it is that it's based on true events, on the infamous folly of the german defence ministry, who bought hundreds of lightweight fighters and through a process worthy of doctor Frankenstein turned them into hardcore, heavy duty bombers. Of course the planes became unwieldy and unreliable, the death toll was astronomical and it passed into history as the widow maker.

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explorations of various parts of the developing story (no spoilers here), and the songs are all fun, as well 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. Obviously, there's nothing any more complex than two or three chord progressions, but that's never been