HW: Assembled trivia

[Andy Gilham]

I'm going on holiday tomorrow, to get a serious sun-tan and probably some
tropical diseases, so before I go I'll leave you all with the latest version
of Hawkwind trivia.

Oh yeah - maybe someone who's into Elric can fill in the "?"s in the Black
Sword section.

Enjoy!

- Andy

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*Hawkwind*

Mirror of Illusion - "perception's doors" references Aldous Huxley's *The
Doors of Perception* [1954].


*In Search of Space*

The Hawkwind Log (enclosed booklet) contains the text of several familiar
Hawkwind songs and poems (though not always in the precise same form): Ten
Seconds of Forever, Black Elk Speaks, The Awakening, the first part of Spirit
of the Age.


*Doremi Fasol Latido*

Title is of course the tonic scale ("Doh, a deer...").
Lord of Light - title of book by Roger Zelazny, in which the rulers of a
colony planet use technological means to assume the aspects of the Hindu
pantheon.
Urban Guerrilla - reference to the Beatles' "Why don't we do it in the road".
 "Two-tone panther" is a pun on the Black Panthers, the White Panthers, and
other pressure groups.


*Space Ritual*

The Black Corridor - the text of the song is in fact the opening passage of
Moorcock's novel of the same title (which was actually co-written with his
then wife, Hilary Bailey).
Orgone Accumulator - refers to the scientific theories of Dr Wilhelm Reich.
 In his theory, "orgone" was a vital force, permeating the universe, which
could be collected in "orgone boxes", and used to cure certain diseases.
 This theory failed to gain widespread acceptance.
Ten Seconds of Forever - "the vermilion deserts of Mars, the jewelled forests
of Venus" are popular views of those planets in pulp science fiction until
the 1970's.


*Hall of the Mountain Grill*

The Mountain Grill was an inexpensive restaurant in Notting Hill, London,
frequented by members of Hawkwind around this time.  Popular dishes included
beans on toast (as in "The legend of Beenzon Toste").  It became a fish shop,
and was last known to be a clothes shop.  The title is also a parody of
 Greig's "The Hall of the Mountain King".


*Warrior on the Edge of Time*

Assault and Battery - the lines "Lives of great men... sands of time" are
taken from "Resignation", a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Opa-Loka - Opa-Locka (with a "c") is the name of a town in Florida, USA.
Spiral Galaxy 28948 - 28/9/48, i.e., 28th September 1948, is Simon House's
date of birth.
Kings of Speed - Mister (Jerry) C(ornelius), Frank (Cornelius) and (Bishop)
Beasley are all characters from several of Michael Moorcock's novels
Motorhead - "Motorhead" is a slang term for a user of amphetamines.


*Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music*

The title and cover art are a tribute to the popular and influential
science-fiction pulp magazines, *Astounding Science Fiction* and *Amazing
Stories*; the style used for the word "Astounding" is an exact copy of that
from ASF's earliest issues, when it was known as "Astounding Stories of
Super-Science".  This theme was continued, on the original LP release, by
decorating the inner sleeve with small ads typical of the pulps - some were
modified to provide the credits for band members (e.g. "Paul Rudolph Manly
Strap-On").
Reefer Madness - title taken from 1936 anti-marijuana propaganda film,
directed by Louis Gasnier ."One of the most absurdly earnest exercises in
paranoia you'll ever have the good fortune to see," says the Time Out Film
Guide.
Steppenwolf - book by Hermann Hesse.  The German "Ich weiss nicht, was ich
sagen soll" translates as "I do not know what I should say".


*Quark, Strangeness and Charm*

Cover art depicts the interior of Battersea Power Station, London (the
four-chimneyed building on the cover of Pink Floyd's *Animals*).
Spirit of the Age - contains Morse code "SOS" signal.  In some live versions
(though not the album version), Calvert sings the word "Zeitgeist" - this is
simply a German translation of "spirit of the age".
Damnation Alley - book by Roger Zelazny; in a post-apocalyptic future, biker
Hell Tanner is recruited to transport a serum across the wasteland of North
America.  Unsatisfactorily filmed starring George Peppard.  "Dr Strangelove,
or how we learned to stop worrying and love the bomb" is the title of a film
by Stanley Kubrick, in which the eponymous Doctor is a mad scientific advisor
to the President, and appears to relish the prospect of nuclear war.  The
structure of the song, with the place names, can be seen as a parody of the
classic American "road" song.
Quark, Strangeness and Charm - in fact, Einstein was married, and had several
children including at least one outside his marriage; and Copernicus made his
discoveries before the invention of the telescope.  A "quark" is a
fundamental subatomic particle (currently seen as any of six types: bottom,
top, up, down, charmed and strange); so "strangeness" and "charm" are among
the possible properties of a quark.
Hassan I Sahba - leader of mediaeval Moslem sect known as the Hashishim, or
"assassins", who used hashish to induce an ecstatic state; Black September
was the name of a Palestinian terrorist organisation notorious for the
massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games; a "petrodollar" is a
term for hard currency earned by oil producing countries.
Days of the Underground - autobiographical piece about Hawkwind's early days;
Jeff, John the Bog and Smiling Mike were friends of the band.
The Iron Dream - book by Norman Spinrad, supposedly written by an Adolf
Hitler from an alternate universe in which he emigrated to the USA and became
a pulp writer.


*PXR5*

Jack of Shadows - book by Roger Zelazny; the eponymous character lives on a
world half ruled my science, and in perpetual daylight, and half by magic, in
perpetual night.  Jack shared a heritage from both worlds, hence he lived in
the shadows.  An "umbra" is a shadow.
Uncle Sam's on Mars - contains samples of the Apollo 11 launch and  President
Nixon's "interplanetary" phone call to Neil Armstrong and Buzz  Aldrin during
the first Moon landing. Also samples of the Eagle/NASA  radio exchange during
touchdown.
Robot - refers to writer Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics. These laws
(devised in discussions with his editor, John W. Campbell Jr) codified a
system of ethics with which the robots in Asimov's fiction were hardwired.
 They are: (1) a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm; (2) a robot must obey the orders given
it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First
Law; (3) a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection
does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
High Rise - book by JG Ballard (actually spelt "High-Rise", with a hyphen),
depicting an urban dystopia.


*25 Years On*

Psi Power - refers to "Zener cards" used in attempts to measure telepathic
phenomena; these cards are marked with symbols such as squares and triangles,
which one subject will try and telepathically send to another.
Free Fall - 32 feet per second squared is the rate of acceleration due to
gravity.
25 Years - a "GCE" (General Certificate of Education)  and a "City and
Guilds" are both forms of academic qualification.
Flying Doctor - Australia's Flying Doctor service provides emergency medical
care in the remote outback; a Percival Proctor is a light aircraft; a
coolibah tree is a native Australian tree; "khyber" (derived from rhyming
slang: "Khyber Pass") is another word for "arse".


*Levitation*

World of Tiers - overall title of a series of six novels by Philip Jose
Farmer.  The eponymous world is one of several artificial "pocket universes",
and happens to be shaped rather like a wedding cake.
Nuclear Toy - Harrisburg (Pennsylvania, USA) and Windscale (now known as
Sellafield, Cumbria, UK) are among nuclear installations where leaks of
radioactive material have occurred.


*Sonic Attack*

Living on a Knife Edge - an "incubus" is a devil supposed to assume a male
body and have sexual intercourse with women in their sleep, but can mean a
nightmare, or any oppressive person, thing or influence.


*Choose Your Masques*

Choose your Masks and Arrival in Utopia- credited to Linda Steele, Moorcock's
wife, presumably for legal reasons; actually written by Moorcock.
Dream Worker - "I am come" narration from a BBC Radio production of JRR
Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", read by British character actor Ian Holm
(possibly best known as the android in Ridley Scott's *Alien*).  The line is
spoken by Frodo Baggins at the Crack of Doom, where he has gone in order to
destroy the One Ring, when he changes his mind...
Void City- the intro is the opening narration to the TV science fiction
series, *The Outer Limits* (the original version, not the '90s revival, which
is slightly different).
Fahrenheit 451 - title of book by Ray Bradbury, later filmed by Francois
Truffaut.  The plot concerns the destruction of all printed literature in a
future totalitarian society; 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at
which paper begins to burn.  The song lyrics are based upon an existing poem
by Calvert.


*Church of Hawkwind*

Some People Never Die - samples of news commentary from the killings of Lee
Harvey Oswald and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Phenomenon of Luminosity - sample of communication with John Glenn, commander
of Friendship 7, one of the Mercury space missions.  It is unknown what he
saw - theories range from glowing fragments from the capsule's heat-shield,
to some form of alien encounter.
Light Specific Data - initials form "LSD".


*Zones*

Dangerous Vision - "Dangerous Visions", plural, is the title of a landmark
anthology of "new wave" science fiction edited by Harlan Ellison.
Utopia '84 - Watney's Red Barrel was a brand of beer, widely regarded with
contempt.


*Earth Ritual EP*

Green Finned Demon - Captain Nemo is the submarine captain from Jules Verne's
"20,000 Leagues under the Sea".


*Do Not Panic*

Stonehenge Decoded - title of book by Gerald S. Hawkins published in 1965
purporting to explain the arrangement of the stones at Stonehenge in
astronomical terms.


*Black Sword*/*Live Chronicles*

Concept albums based on Michael Moorcock's "Elric of Melnibone", who is
featured in several of his novels.  The narration is not entirely coherent:
some of the songs refer to specific incidents in the books, others are
existing Hawkwind numbers used at (more or less) appropriate points.

The Chronicle of the Black Sword - lists the titles of several of the Elric
books - The Weird of the White Wolf, The Bane of the Black Sword, The Sailor
on the Seas of Fate, and Stormbringer.
Song of the Swords
Dragons and Fables
Narration
The Sea King - episode in *Elric of Melnibone*
Dead God's Homecoming
Angels of Death
Shade Gate - episode in *?*
Rocky Paths
Narration (Elric The Enchanter Part One)
The Pulsing Cavern - episode in *?*, where Elric takes possession of the
sword Stormbringer.
Master of the Universe
Dragon Song
Dreaming City - title of the first Elric story published (though not the
first in internal chronology).  Elric leads the destruction of Imrryr,
capital of Melnibone, his home.
Choose Your Masques
Fight Sequence
Assault and Battery
Sleep of a Thousand Tears - Moorcock lyric originally written for Blue Oyster
Cult, but not used by them due to a dispute.  Has some similarities with
Moorcock's "Erekose" stories; Erekose is an alternate aspect of Elric, the
Eternal Champion.
Zarozinia - epiosde in *?
Lords of Chaos (The Demise)
The Dark Lords
Wizards of Pan Tang
Moonglum (Friend Without A Cause) - Moonglum is the friend and companion of
Elric; the song refers to an episode in *?*
Elric The Enchanter (Part Two)
Needle Gun - actually refers to Jerry Cornelius, an alternate, roughly
contemporary version of Elric.  *The Final Programme*, the first Cornelius
story, is a re-writing of *The Dreaming City* in modern dress, in which
Jerry's needle gun fills a similar role to Elric's sword Stormbringer.
Conjuration of Magnu
Magnu
Dust of Time
The Final Fight
Horn of Fate (Destiny)  - conclusion of *Stormbringer*, in which Elric blows
the Horn of Fate and brings the Universe to an end.


*Out and Intake*

Flight to Maputo - Maputo is the capital of Mozambique, in south-eastern
Africa.
Confrontation - refers to clashes between the police and the Convoy, a
travellers' organisation.
Ghost Dance - The Ghost Dance religion was a Native American movement in the
last years of the nineteenth century.   The Dance was supposed to raise the
dead warrior spirits who would then go into the live warriors bodies and
render them invincible to the weapons of the white man.   The Battle at
Wounded Knee was where the dance empowered Indians attacked as the first step
to remove the blight from their land.


*Xenon Codex*

The War I Survived - "Slaughterhouse 5" is the title of a novel by Kurt
Vonnegut, inspired by his experiences as a survivor of the Dresden
fire-bombing in 1945.


*Space Bandits*

Black Elk Speaks - Black Elk, of the Oglala Sioux, was a survivor of the
massacre at Wounded Knee.  In the 1930's, anthropologist John G Neihardt
interviewed Black Elk at length, and recorded his testimony in a book
entitled, "Black Elk Speaks".  The vocal track is a recording made by
Neihardt.  This text was also excerpted in the Hawkwind Log.


*Palace Springs*

Back in the Box - "stamp" is a familiar British expression, referring to
national insurance contributions, formerly recorded by sticking a stamp on to
an official card.


*Electric Tepee*

Right to Decide: based on incident in UK where angry householder shot a
 Council Planning Officer and a Policeman in front of TV cameras.


*It is the Business of the Future to be Dangerous*

Title first appeared in the sleeve notes to *Space Ritual*.  Believed to be a
quotation from CP Snow.  Or maybe: "Every new technology all but destroys the
society into which it is introduced - it is the business of the future to be
dangerous" - David Jones says: "I thought it was Alfred North Whitehead, the
mathematician, but I will have to search."
Tibet is Not China - protests the repressive occupation of Tibet by the
People's Republic of China.


*The Business Trip*

Altair - a bright star in the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle.


*White Zone*

White Zone - sample is an announcement to be heard at airports in the USA.


*Alien 4*

Title is presumably intended as a sequel to the "Alien" film trilogy; whereas
some of the lyrics allude to the popular theme of alien abduction, and the
cover art suggests a benign alien presence.  Some of the interior art is from
circa-1930's science-fiction pulps, although the picture of the man finding a
way through the celestial dome is a much earlier woodcut.
Alien (I Am) - includes sample from the *Star Trek: the Next Generation*,
episode entitled "The Mind's Eye".  The voices heard are Lt.-Commander Data
(Brent Spiner) and the USS Enterprise computer (Majel Barrett).  The episode
is the one in which Geordi is "remote-controlled" by Romulan agents.
Vega - a bright star in the constellation of Lyra, the Lyre.
Kapal - text from Shakespeare's "Hamlet".


*Text of Festival*

Album title from Mick Farren's novel "The Texts of Festival".


Dave Brock and the Agents of Chaos

"Agent of Chaos" - 1967 novel by Norman Spinrad.


*Sonic Assassins*

Over the Top - General Lord Kitchener was a British Army commander in the
First World War; his image is familiar from recruitment posters, with the
slogan "your country needs you".  A "white feather" is traditionally a sign
of cowardice; young ladies used to give white feathers to young men seen not
in uniform.  The idea was to indicate that they were 'chicken' and would have
to join up if they were to impress the ladies.  Calvert's "give me white
feather" line is intended to portray the thoughts of a soldier who would far
rather be branded a coward than go back "over the top".


*Other and non-album*

Ode to a Time Flower - based on an SF short story (need author and title)
Ode to a Crystal Set - Colonel Dan Dare, "pilot of the future," was a very
popular comic book character in the 1950's and 1960's, but is now generally
regarded as representing an old-fashioned view of an ideal future; sporadic
and continuing attempts to revive and update the character have proven
largely unsuccessful.  A "superheterodyne" is an old-fashioned type of radio
receiver.
The Island - title from Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name?
Elements - name-checks *The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test*, a book by Tom
Wolfe.

Compiled by Andy Gilham

Acknowledgements:

Carl Anderson
Chris Bates
Dave Berry
Jeremy Dacombe
Mike Holmes
Ron Jennings
David Jones
Robert Rudich
Jill Strobridge