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 ...

Hawkwind was one of the strangest and most beloved bands of the ’70s. The British space rockers released one of the era’s great discs (“Space Ritual,” the landmark 1973 live album), and spent the rest ...