Author: Hawklords
Title: 25 Years On
Category: Electronic, Rock
Style: Leftfield, Prog Rock
Year: 1978
Notes: Hawklords is a 1978 studio album by Hawkwind Date of released under the name Hawklords for legal reasons as there was a dispute over ownership of the name "Hawkwind". It reached #48 on the UK album charts. It was originally titled 25 Years On and the first 25000 were pressed as this until the band decided to simply call it Hawklords. Subsequent re-releases have reverted the name 25 Years On, and the band also now use this name on their web site.

Hawkwind had self imploded on a USA tour earlier in the year leaving only Robert Calvert, Dave Brock and Simon King to embark on this project. They were joined by Harvey Bainbridge who had played bass in Devon group Ark who in turn had performed with Calvert and Brock as the Sonic Assassins, and by keyboardist Steve Swindells who had been in Pilot. During the Devon recording session King returned home to London and was replaced by Martin Griffin (also from Ark), but King subsequently returned giving the band two drummers. Simon House had left the earlier band to join David Bowie but contributed violin to the sessions, as did noted British jazz trumpeter Henry Lowther. Road manager Les McClure also sneaked a performance in.

The music is perhaps as far removed from the generic Space Rock the band would ever get, these tracks being tightly arranged pieces more in tune with New Wave of the time rather than the band's history. Lyrically this is Calvert's most diverse dealing with themes such as telepathy ("Psi Power"), sky diving ("Free Fall"), Australian drug misuse ("Flying Doctor"), heroic bravery ("The Only Ones") and espionage ("The Dead Dreams Of The Cold War Kid"). There's a light hearted playfulness to these tracks, only the lyrics of "The Age Of The Micro Man" hinted at the bleak cold futuristic factory workers concept that Calvert and Barney Bubbles put together for the stage show of the album (see tour programme). This programme is reproduced in the CD booklet of the Atomhenge re-release.

"Psi Power" and "25 Years" were Date of released as singles but are slightly different versions to those that appeared on the album. Rating: 3.8
Format: MP3 AU AHX RA AUD MP3 MMF FLAC MP3
MP3 album RAR size: 1431 mb | FLAC album RAR size: 1857 mb

Tracklist

PSI Power

Free Fall

Automoton

25 Years

Flying Doctor

The Only Ones

(Only) The Dead Dream Of The Cold War Kid

The Age Of The Micro Man

Versions Find Your Version

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CDS 4014	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	CDS 4014	UK	1978
8T-1-2203	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(8-Trk, Album)	Charisma	8T-1-2203	US	1978
7208 623	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(Cass, Album)	Charisma	7208 623	UK	1978
RJ-7552	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	RJ-7552	UK	1978
9124 032	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	9124 032	Germany	1978
91 24 032	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	91 24 032	Spain	1978
9211-4014	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	9211-4014	Canada	1978
9124 032	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	9124 032	Scandinavia	1978
9124 032	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	9124 032	Italy	1978
CDS 4014	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	CDS 4014	UK	1978
CA-1-2203	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	CA-1-2203	US	1978
9124 032	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album)	Charisma	9124 032	Australia	1979
CHC 10	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Charisma	CHC 10	UK	1982
CHC 10	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Charisma	CHC 10	UK	1982
CDSCD 4014	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(CD, Album)	Virgin	CDSCD 4014	UK	1989
RFM 014	Hawklords	Hawklords ‎(CD, Album, RM)	Rock Fever Music	RFM 014	Germany	2001
IECP-20178/179	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(2xCD, Album, RE, RM)	WHD Entertainment, Inc., Atomhenge	IECP-20178/179	Japan	2009
ATOMCD 2006	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(2xCD, Album, RM)	Atomhenge	ATOMCD 2006	UK	2009
ATOMCD 2006	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(2xCD, Album, RM, Sli)	Atomhenge	ATOMCD 2006	UK	2009
LETV266LP	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Pur)	Let Them Eat Vinyl	LETV266LP	UK	2015
CHCMC 10	Hawklords	25 Years On ‎(Cass, Album)	Charisma Classics	CHCMC 10	UK	Unknown

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