Hawklords Footage and Top 10 Prog Rock

[M Holmes]

Melvyn Vincent writes:

> >Y'know - it's a wierd thing - but way back whenever, I remember
> >watching The Old Grey Whistle Test (very, very quietly 'cos my folks
> >were asleep immediately above and there was some very strange music
> >I didn't want them to hear me listening to!) and right at the
> >beginning of the programme it was announced that they were going to
> >have Hawkwind on the show.     This was wonderful to me because I
> >had never had a chance to see the band play and I was fascinated to
> >see what they were like.   So I watched the entire programme and
> >there was absolutely no sign nor mention of anything Hawkwind at all
> >of any kind whatsoever.   So by the end of the show I was utterly
> >fed up and just anxious to go to bed and had pretty much stopped
> >paying attention and then I think - just as the final credits rolled
> >up - they played a video clip.     Sadly my memory is fairly hazy on
> >this point but I'm fairly sure it was just the Silver Machine clip
> >because I can remember feeling exceedingly cheated that that's all
> >it was!      Exactly *why* they were playing Silver Machine I'm not
> >sure - later rational tells me that it was possibly one of the
> >re-issues of that single which would make it probably 1978.     But
> >if anyone can add to this I'd be glad to hear about it.

Rupert Murdoch, Global Media, and the IRA have been involved in a 30
year plan to prevent Hawkwind storming the planet.

FoFP