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Front Covers

Following a conversation with Richard Ogden, Hawkwind's PR guy 1971-76, I became a little obsessed with tracking down every instance of the band (or at least its name) appearing on the front cover of a magazine during the 70s. This is the result... (Click to enlarge the image, some references may be hard to spot!)

Friends - 13.11.70
Melody Maker - 27.11.71
Muther Grumble - 03.72
Fapto 8 - April 1972
Frendz -14.07.72
NME - 22.07.72
NME -12.08.72
Disco 45 - 18.08.72
Disc - 02.09.72
NME - 02.09.72
Sounds - 02.09.72
Sounds - 23.09.72
Mickie Songbook - 09.72
Sounds - 02.10.72
NME - 14.10.72
NME - 09.12.72
Let It Rock - 12.72
Music Scene - 12.72
Record Song Book - 12.72
Rock & Folk - 12.72
Sounds - 06.01.73
NME - 12.05.73
NME - 19.05.73
Sounds - 26.05.73
Melody Maker - 09.06.73
Melody Maker - 30.06.73
Qui Giovani - 05.07.73
NME - 01.09.73
Disco 45 - 21.09.73
Mickie Songbook - 09.73
Melody Maker - 01.12.73
Penetration - early 1974
Sounds - 02.02.74
beetle-magazine-may-1974-hawkwind-man-mott-the-hoople-beach-boys-kristine-sparkle-pointer-
new-musical-express- 06.07.74
Sounds - 06.07.74
Oor - 17.07.74
Ciao 2001 - 27.10.74
NME - 23.11.74
Sounds - 30.11.74
Melody Maker - 04.01.75
Melody Maker - 18.01.75
Sounds - 18.01.75
Rock & Folk - 01.75
NME - 08.02.75
Ciao 2001 - 09.02.75
Melody Maker - 15.02.75
Cracker - 02.75
Creem - 03.75
Beat Instrumental - 07.75
PTP - Aug 75
Sounds - 09.08.75
New Fapto - Sept 75
Trouser Press - 9-10.75
Sounds - 22.11.75
Penetration 8 - 76
Sounds - 04.09.76
Sounds - 02.10.76
Beat Instrumental - 11.76
Penetration - 77
Sniffin Flowers - 77
Beat Instrumental - 09.77
Way Ahead - 11.77
Sounds - 21.10.78
Melody Maker - 18.11.78
Way Ahead - 11.78
Sounds - 09.06.79
Sounds - 08.11.80

Days Of The Underground is a decade-long trip into the music of Hawkwind. It explores the ideas and concepts that fuelled the band during their classic 1970s period and speaks to the crew that manned the ship.

 

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