Absolutely fantastic! My assertion that Hawkwind may not be entirely responsible for the birth of punk seems to have sparked something of an argument in the comments section of that article.
I haven’t experienced anything like it since about 19791, which as far as I can recall was probably the last time you could get beaten up for liking the wrong kind of music.
Anyway, some of the comments included, with varying degrees of grammatical accuracy, suggestions that I might “not know what [I am] talking about” and urge me to “do some research” lest I make a “fool of [myself] again”. So in that spirit I’ve done my research and have come to the conclusion that, yes lads, without Hawkwind punk would never have happened. I present the evidence in these two photos below:
Next week - would rap music be where it is without Gilbert O’Sullivan?
1Not too long after 1979 pop music (by which I generically mean pop/rock etc) finally lost one of the main reasons for its existence, which was, purely and simply, to annoy your parents. Those who achieved adulthood around that date were the last generation whose parents couldn’t stand the music they liked.
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August 27th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Lemmy Rotten
August 28th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Ha ha verry good however wots left of the sexpistols cover Hawkwind tracks .never mind the B****x.!HAY HO.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
The eyes have it…Ahem
September 7th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Well don’t leave us in suspense Daran, how was it?
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Hawkwind co-founder Nik Turner will be appearing at the Inn on the Green December 18th as Space Ritual!!
I am his messenger…and I found your article…..Scribe of Notting Hill please contact me for more info..and maybe more…a very special offer!
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
hey scribe, nice to hear of your controversial activity, martin wright said in the hawkwind doc ‘do not panic’, “if it wasn’t for ‘brainstorm’ the sex pistols would not have existed”, i wrote that song, but i think hawkwind were already a punk band when johnny roadied for us. try to come to the inn on the green on dec 18, it’s under the flyover we played in, best wishes
nik turner
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
[...] the interest in Hawkwind that my previous posts on the subject generated, I’m rather looking forward to them being on the same bill as us, not least because [...]