IN MEMORY OF NIK TURNER

He was the Mighty Thunder Rider, Hawkwind’s sax and flute player plus frontman, a flamboyant performer whose maverick spirit helped to define Britain’s free festival underground. Nik Turner may have died in November at the age of 82, but his legacy as a cosmic visionary and countercultural catalyst will live on.

Joe Banks

Nik Turner, frontman, saxophonist and flautist for Hawkwind during the band’s classic early 70s period, died peacefully on November 10, 2022 at ‘Cadillac Ranch’, his home in Carmarthenshire, Wales. While Hawkwind will forever be the band that Turner is most strongly associated with, his musical output both as a solo artist and leader of other groups was prodigious. He was also a major figure in the UK’s counterculture, involved in the organisation of both the Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals, along with being the animating presence at myriad smaller DIY happenings; a free-wheeling, anarchic spirit who helped keep the post-hippie underground scene alive in the face of often fierce mainstream opposition. He lived and loved to play music, happy to collaborate with seemingly anyone who asked, or content to just busk…

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