SIDEWAYS THROUGH TIME: AN ORAL HISTORY OF HAWKWIND IN THE 1970S

Joe Banks STRANGE ATTRACTOR More than 30 interviews with Hawkwind’s many minstrels and acolytes. As chronicler of Hawkwind’s illustrious history, Joe Banks has form. As well filling Prog’s pages with features about the long-running cosmic warriors from Ladbroke Grove, Banks also wrote the 2020 book, Days Of The Underground, the definitive word on all things Hawkwind. Sideways Through Time is here to accompany that tome, featuring the words of everyone from founder Dave Brock to Robert Calvert’s second wife Pamela Townley, with many other musicians, technicians and magicians besides. “Stacia and Moorcock add fascinating extra dimensions.” Rather than taking the quotes from interviewees and then interweaving them into a bigger, overarching oral history-style narrative, Banks opts for the approach pioneered by Studs Terkel, presenting each as a separate, standalone perspective.…