“We played for practically 24 hours. When somebody got too tired, somebody else would take over. It was a functional, practical thing to enable the band to play for ever!” When the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind became a single band

Pink Fairies in 1972.

At the dawn of psychedelia, Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies found themselves pushed together by accident. The result was a live hybrid who became known as Pinkwind. In 2011, Fairies bassist Duncan Sanderson (who died in 2019) told Prog about those times.

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