“We’d always be stopped by the police… In those days, anyone with long hair was a drug addict”: The story behind Hawkwind’s classic album, In Search Of Space

Hawkwind's In Search of Space album art.

1971 album In Search Of Space established Hawkwind as masters of the space rock universe, but their mission to spread the counterculture to every corner of Britain was fraught with bad vibes and danger. In 2022 the Hawkship’s crew told Prog the story – and explained the mystery of the record’s actual title.

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