Acid Rock

Starring: Gong, Hawkwind Dvd Release: 1st December, 2003 Number Of Discs: 3 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Gong are a progressive rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. They were formed in 1967, after Allen - then a member of Soft Machine - was denied entry to the United Kingdom due to a visa complication. Allen remained in France where he & a London -born Sorbonne professor, Gilli Smyth, established the first incarnation of Gong. This band fragmented during the 1968 student revolution, with Allen & Smyth forced to flee France for Deya in Majorca. They found a saxophonist, Didier Malherbe living in a cave in Deya, before film director Jerome La Perrousaz invited the band back to France to record the soundtracks to his movies. They were subsequently approached by the newly formed independent label BYG & signed up for two albums. By 1971, a regular line-up had established itself & Gong released their Camembert Electrique album. The UK release, put out by Virgin Records subsidiary Caroline Records in 1974, was priced at 49p, ensuring that sufficient numbers were sold for the album to chart.

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Hawkwind was the seminal British 1970s acid-rock / UK Underground band. Along with the Pink Fairies they were key community bands in Ladbroke Grove home of the Mountain Grill cafe. Their music is fundamentally driving psychedelic rock, cosmic orchestral pieces & even some humorous dance music. Their music usually deals with urban & science fiction themes & in many ways they were the inventors of Space rock. Formed in the summer of 1969 as Hawkwind Zoo, they were offered a record deal by Liberty Records in November of that year & immediately shortened the band name to Hawkwind. Their live performances quickly gathered them a cult following, partly because they were seen as a community Of the People - For the People group. Their second album In Search of Space was very successful. During the early 1970s Hawkwind played a number of benefit gigs along with other community bands/artists including The Pink Fairies & Steve Took who, as a key member of the UK Underground went on to work with a number of Hawkwind members.

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