It might have been Lemmy’s penultimate record with the band – he was let go within a year of its September 1974 release – but he often attested that Hall Of The Mountain Grill marks Hawkwind’s zenith.
The astral-travelling free-festival favourites’ fourth album, co-produced with Doug Bennett and Roy Thomas Baker, captures yet another revamped line-up of a band perpetually in flux, who’d recently survived Silver Machine’s unexpected chart success to return to their familiar role as darlings of the UK’s underground freak scene.
