'Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground' - a MOJO, Uncut, Prog & Shindig book of the year. www.daysoftheunderground.com.
'Rock And Role: The Visionary Songs Of Peter Hammill And Van der Graaf Generator' out now. www.rockandrole.net
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From the following issue (17 March 1973), reviews of both Sabbath and Quo showing the thinly veiled contempt that even Sounds writers had for popular 'people's bands'. (Similar to what Hawkwind also endured)
I bet this was the only time that Sabbath were described as "effete"!
Full page advert in the following week's issue...
And here's the review they ran in that issue
Latest episode of The Progressive Rock Show's series A Crash Course In Italian Prog is here, and this week, the panel talk about our most recent release yet, 2025's Eclipse Of The Midnight Sun by Tale Cue.
RPI or neo-prog? Listen here from 1:00:38 to find out - progzilla.com/the-progress...
And from the same issue of Sounds (10 March 1973), an early half page ad for The Dark Side Of The Moon... #pinkfloyd
Sabbath's spring 73 UK tour is sold out, but why is Ozzy stuck in a spider's web...?
This is a great article. Having been immersed in back issues of the 70s music press recently, I can only nod my head sagely in agreement, particularly re bloody Nils Lofgren... www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... Some great comments too
Two original artworks by Tony Hyde (friend of Robert Calvert and Barney Bubbles, who provided the illustrations for Lucky Leif and Hawkwind's Astounding Sounds) are up for auction: an unseen alt cover for LL and the ASAM image before the final typography. Wow! bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/...
My Peter Hammill/VdGG book 'Rock and Role' is available again for pre-order and should be out in July: burningshed.com/store/peterh...
This is its second print-run, limited to just 1,000 copies - if you missed out first time round, this is your chance to get hold of one - but be quick ;-)
Hawkwind's Family Tree by Pete Frame in Sounds 9th, June 1979.
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