RELEASED 23.4.2012
ROBERT CALVERT joined HAWKWIND in the early seventies and he wrote their massive hit ‘Silver Machine’. After extensive touring with the band and writing such classics as ‘Sonic Attack’ and ‘In the Egg’ he left to begin a solo career, with the concept album ‘Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters’. This live set contains 5 tracks from that classic debut album as well as ‘Spirit of the Age’ which he wrote and recorded with HAWKWIND when he rejoined in 1977 for their album ‘Quark, Strangeness and Charm’. Sadly he passed away in 1988 after completing what was to be his final tour.
Tracks: Ned Ludd, Test Tube Conceived, Quark, Strangeness and Charm, (Only) The Dreams of the Cold War Kid, Telekinesis, Standing on the Picket Line, All The Machines are Quiet, Lord of the Hornets, Save Them From the Scientists, Fable of a Failed Race, Spirit of The Age, Ship Of Fools, The Right Stuff, Catch A Falling Starfighter, The Song of The Gremlin, The Aerospace Inferno, Ejection, Silver Machine Blues