It was only their second-ever single, but it made a massive impact – and Brock still doesn’t really know how it happened ...
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“In about 1972 or 73 I used to go to Macari’s in Charing Cross Road every Saturday to muck about on the Korg 700S. I’d drive the guy in the shop mad – he’d kick me out after half an hour. But I did ...
The ‘X In Search Of Space’-era Hawkwind in 1971, before Lemmy came on board As 1972 unfolded, Lemmy – a guitarist-turned-bassist who approached his newly adopted four-string instrument as though he ...
Nonetheless, Hall of the Mountain Grill didn’t chart high – in the UK, it peaked at 16 in late September 1974: when Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge and Tubular Bells were at numbers one and two ...
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.