“We were the belt-and-braces Pink Floyd – basic yobbos”: how Hawkwind boldly went where no band had gone before on psychedelic masterpiece In Search Of Space

Hawkwind in 1971.

Since they formed at the end of the 1960s, Hawkwind have been flagbearers for the British underground psychedelic scene. In 2011, journalist and musician Mick Farren – former frontman with their late 60s contemporaries The Deviants – looked back on Hawkwind’s breakthrough second album, 1971’s In Search Of Space.

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