HW: Moorcock on drugs!

[Andy Gilham]

This week's _Time Out_ (London listings magazine) is one of their periodic
"drugs specials" - what makes this more interesting than usual is an article
by Michael Moorcock.  He writes about Hawkwind: "a band generally considered
the ultimate 'acid head' band.  Which it might have been.  But it was also a
well-rehearsed working band, with coherent principles and questioning, edgy,
urban lyrics."  Also Similin' Mike (of black motorcycle fame), who "lost his
keys and decided to climb to his room, three storeys up.  He almost made it.
When he fell he impaled himself on the basement railings."

But the thrust of the article is how the drug scene isn't what it was, and
how (like everything else) it's all Mrs Thatcher's fault.

- Andy

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