What I love about this album – apart from the songs, is the dialogue. A concept album by Hawkwind member Robert Calvert (Silver Machine, Seven By Seven and Sonic Attack were three of his greatest Hawkwind moments). The plot: Germany wants to modernize after World War 2 and are talked into purchasing one of the […]
One of the great lost psychedelic groups Tomorrow released My White Bicycle in May 1967, it failed to chart and by the time their album came out in 1968 the psychedelic era was already starting to lose momentum and the band broke up. They had previously recorded three singles as The In Crowd, one of […]
The archetypal sixties naive one-hit wonder song was actually really ‘an excerpt’ from an unfinished Rock Opera called A Teenage Opera written by producer Mark Wirtz. West was the singer from the great and forgotten Psychedelic band Tomorrow that also featured Steve Howe later of Yes and Twink who joined a later incarnation of The Pretty […]
The first time I became aware of this album I was outside the Liverpool Stadium, where I saw a lad with long hair and a velvet jacket carrying it under his arm. Whenever there was a concert on there, a line from the front door would wind around the building – if you got there […]