The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London
Live album by Hawkwind
Released	11 May 1973
Recorded	December, 1972
Genre	Space Rock
Length	86:55 (original release)
Label	United Artists – UAD60037/8
Producer	Hawkwind
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Prog Archives link (34 ratings)
Hawkwind chronology
Doremi Fasol Latido (1972) Space Ritual (1973) Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974)

The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London is a 1973 live double album recorded in 1972 by UK rock band Hawkwind. It is their fourth album and reached #9 in the UK album charts. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... // Many successful recording artists release at least one live album at some point during their career. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... is the 131st day of the year (132nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For space rocks, see asteroid. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... United Artists Records was a record label founded by United Artists soon after its own founding in 1919 to distribute soundtracks from its movies. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1972 Release by the band Hawkwind Track listing Brainstorm (Turner) 11:33 Space Is Deep (Brock) 6:20 One Change (Dettmar)  :49 Lord of Light (Brock) 6:59 Down Through the Night (Brock) 3:04 Time We Left This World Today (Brock) 8:43 The Watcher (Kilmister) 4:09 Trivia... Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974) is probably Hawkwinds most accessible album. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The album was recorded during the tour to promote their Doremi Fasol Latido album, which comprises the bulk of this set. In addition, there are new tracks ("Born To Go", "Upside Down" and "Orgone Accumulator") and the songs are interspersed by electronic and spoken pieces making this one continuous performance. Curiously, their recent hit single "Silver Machine" was excluded from the set, and only "Master of the Universe" remains from their first two albums. 1972 Release by the band Hawkwind Track listing Brainstorm (Turner) 11:33 Space Is Deep (Brock) 6:20 One Change (Dettmar)  :49 Lord of Light (Brock) 6:59 Down Through the Night (Brock) 3:04 Time We Left This World Today (Brock) 8:43 The Watcher (Kilmister) 4:09 Trivia... Silver Machine is a 1972 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind. ...

The Space Ritual show attempted to create a full audio-visual-cerebral experience, representing themes developed by Barney Bubbles and Robert Calvert entwining the fantasy of Starfarers in suspended animation travelling through time and space with the concept of the music of the spheres.^[1] The performance featured dancers Stacia, Miss Renee and Tony Carrera, stage set by Bubbles,^[2] lightshow by Liquid Len and poetry recitations by Calvert. On entering the venue, audience members were given a free programme^[3] (reproduced on the 1996 remaster CD) featuring a short sci-fi story by Bubbles setting the band in a Starfarers scenario returning to Earth. Colin Fulcher aka Barney Bubbles (1942 - 1983) was a British graphic designer and video director. ... Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945 - 14 August 1988) was the lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind intermittently from 1972-1979, who went on to a less successful but intriguing separate career. ... Musica universalis or music of the spheres is a medieval philosophical concept that regards the proportions in the movements of the celestial bodies - the Sun, Moon and planets - as a form of musica (the medieval Latin name for music). ... Stacia Page was a dancer for the English rock group Hawkwind. ... Liquid Len (born Jonathan Smeeton) is a British lighting designer. ...

The original release featured edits and overdubs, the sleeve notes explaining that "We had to cut a piece out of Brainstorm and Time We Left because they were too long", but the 1985 Space Ritual Volume 2 album contains the full unedited versions. A previously unheard edited version of "You Shouldn't Do That" (segued with an unlisted "Seeing It As You Really Are") from this concert was included on the 1976 Roadhawks compilation album, then subsequently included as a bonus track on the 1996 remaster CD. The full unedited version of the track can be found on the Hawkwind Anthology album. June 2007 saw another EMI remaster issue with different bonus tracks and DVD-audio. Roadhawks, is a 1976 compilation album by Hawkwind covering the years 1970-1975. ... The Hawkwind Anthology series of records were originally issued mid-1980s containing live and outtake material from Hawkwinds career to that date. ...

"Sonic Attack" had been written by sci-fi author Michael Moorcock, who often performed with the band when convenient and Calvert was unavailable. Here it is recited by Calvert and it was scheduled for single release, promotional copies being distributed in a cloth sleeve, but it never did receive a full release. Michael John Moorcock (born December 18, 1939, in London, England) is a prolific English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. ...

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Earth Calling" (Calvert) – 1:46
2. "Born To Go" (Calvert/Brock) – 9:56
3. "Down Through The Night" (Brock) – 6:16
4. "The Awakening" (Calvert) – 1:32

Side 2

1. "Lord Of Light" (Brock) – 7:21
2. "Black Corridor" (Moorcock) – 1:51
3. "Space Is Deep" (Brock) – 8:13
4. "Electronic No 1" (Dik Mik/Dettmar) – 2:26

Side 3

1. "Orgone Accumulator" (Calvert/Brock) – 9:59
2. "Upside Down" (Brock) – 2:43
3. "10 Seconds Of Forever" (Calvert) – 2:05
4. "Brainstorm" (Turner) – 9:20

Side 4

1. "7 By 7" (Brock) – 6:13
2. "Sonic Attack" (Moorcock) – 2:54
3. "Time We Left (This World Today)" (Brock) – 5:47
4. "Master Of The Universe" (Turner/Brock) – 7:37
5. "'Welcome To The Future" (Calvert) – 2:03

Bonus tracks on 1996 Remasters CD

1. "You Shouldn't Do That" (Turner/Brock) / "Seeing It As You Really Are" [unlisted] (Brock) – 6:55
2. "Master Of The Universe" (Turner/Brock) – 7:26
3. "Born To Go" (Calvert/Brock) – 13:04

2007 Digital remaster

Credits

Musicnauts

• Robert Calvert – vocals
• Dave Brock – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Nik Turner – saxophone, flute, vocals
• Lemmy – bass guitar, vocals
• Dik Mik Davies – Synthesizer
• Del Dettmar – Synthesizer
• Simon King – drums

Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945 - 14 August 1988) was the lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind intermittently from 1972-1979, who went on to a less successful but intriguing separate career. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Dave Brock (born David Anthony Brock, 20 August 1941, in Isleworth, Middlesex) is best known as the frontman of the English space rock group, Hawkwind. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Nik Turner (born Nicholas Turner, 28 August 1940, in Oxford, Oxfordshire), is a British musician, best known as a founder of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ... The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Lemmy (born Ian Fraiser Kilmister on December 24, 1945, also known as Ian Willis, Lemmy Kilmister, and Lemmy von Motörhead), is an English singer and bass guitarist, most famous for being the founding member of the heavy metal band Motörhead. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Synthesizer as used in music, is a term derived from a Greek word syntithetai < synthesis (συντίθεται < σύνθεσις) and is used to describe a device capable of generating and/or manipulating electronic signals for use in music creation, recording and performance. ... Synthesizer as used in music, is a term derived from a Greek word syntithetai < synthesis (συντίθεται < σύνθεσις) and is used to describe a device capable of generating and/or manipulating electronic signals for use in music creation, recording and performance. ... Simon King (born Oxford, in July or August 1950) is an English drummer most noted for his work with Hawkwind. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ...

Recording

• Recorded at Liverpool Stadium, 22 December 1972 and Brixton Sundown, 30 December 1972 by Vic Maile and the Pye Mobile.
• Produced by Hawkwind. Mixed by Vic Maile and Anton Matthews at Olympic Studios, Barnes.
• "You Shouldn't Do That" (bonus track) recorded at Brixton Sundown, 30 December 1972. Originally released on the Roadhawks compilation album.
• "Master Of The Universe" and "Born To Go" (bonus tracks) recorded at The Roundhouse, 13 February 1972. Originally released on the Greasy Truckers Party Various Artists album.

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Sleeve

The sleeve^[4] was designed by Barney Bubbles and came in 3x2 panel foldout, the outer 6 panels being colour, the inner 6 panels being monochrome, the discs in psychedelic patterned orange & yellow inner sleeves were folded into this. It made Q Magazines 100 greatest album covers list.

• The outer foldout features an illustration of Miss Stacia flanked by the hounds of King over stage shots of the band.
• The inner foldout features three panels of a photograph of outer space with three illustrations on each panel headed by lines from a Hawkwind song.
• Inner panel 1: features a vintage photograph of a naked woman with listed credits.
• Inner panel 2: chac bacab – features an image of a female nipple as a planet, and a legend of the Earth as a living entity.
• Inner panel 3: kan bacab – features an image of a foetus suspended in space with the legend "The Universe resounds with the joyful cry I AM. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Naked I came out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither."
• Inner panel 4: Features a mandala with the legend "Everything exists for itself, yet everything is part of something else. The One and the many contain in themselves the principles of time and space. The way up and the way down are one and the same."
• Inner panel 5: Features a dedication from Lemmy to John the Bog, Supernova and Sue Bennett. zac bacab, tec bacab and bac bacab expounds upon religious and cosmological myths and sciences, starting with the William Blake poem "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour", ending with the Alfred Whitehead quote "Give up illusions about ideas of order, accept nothing of inherited norm. Spread joy and revolution. It is the business of the future to be dangerous."
• Inner panel 6: features a winged superhero grasping an electric cable and lightning bolts, perched upon an Earth situated in a void.

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Notes

• "Earth Calling" is a spoken piece, inspired by Lord Haw Haw's "Germany calling" wartime broadcasts.
• "The Awakening" is a spoken piece which had been printed in the Hawklog.
• "Black Corridor" is a spoken piece, adapted from the Michael Moorcock book of the same name.
• "Electronic No. 1" is an electronic piece, very similar to Cluster '71.
• "Orgone Accumulator" lyrics were inspired by Wilhelm Reich. The music (including bass solo) is a version of Canned Heat's "Fried Hockey Boogie". Pop Will Eat Itself covered the song in 1987 on their "Love Missile F1-11" single.

Lord Haw-Haw was a propaganda radio program broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Britain and Ireland on the mediumwave station Radio Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States. ... Michael John Moorcock (born December 18, 1939, in London, England) is a prolific English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. ... Cluster is a German musical group whose output prefigures ambient music. ... Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. ... Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. ... Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or the Poppies) were an English band formed in Stourbridge, with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. ...

Release History

• May-1973: United Artists Records, UAD60037/8, UK vinyl – original issues came in 6 panel fold-out sleeve with inner sleeves. Subsequent releases in gatefold sleeve.
• Sep-1992: One Way Records, S2257659, USA CD
• Mar-1996: EMI Remasters, HAWKS4, UK CD – initial copies in digipak with reproduction of the Space Ritual tour programme (An extract from the Saga of Doremi Fasol Latido)
• Jun-2007: EMI Remasters, UK 2CD+DVD

Volume 2

Space Ritual Volume 2 is an archive live album by Hawkwind released in 1985 consisting of a live performance from 1972. The tapes were licensed by Dave Brock to former Hawkwind bass player Dave Anderson for release. // Many successful recording artists release at least one live album at some point during their career. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For space rocks, see asteroid. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Bring Me The Head Of Yuri Gagarin is an archive album by Hawkwind released in 1985 consisting of a live performance from 1973. ... The Hawkwind Anthology series of records were originally issued mid-1980s containing live and outtake material from Hawkwinds career to that date. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...

This recording is part of the performance that was processed for disc 2 of Space Ritual. Here it is in its original state, with no edits or overdubs, notable differences being a different middle section to "Orgone Accumulator", "Paranoia" included as the middle section of "Time We Left (This World Today)" and "Wind Of Change" leading into "Seven By Seven". "Space Is Deep" and "You Shouldn't Do That" / "Seeing It As You Really Are" from this tape were released on Hawkwind Anthology. The Hawkwind Anthology series of records were originally issued mid-1980s containing live and outtake material from Hawkwinds career to that date. ...

1. "Electronic No 1" [listed as "Space"] (Dettmar/DikMik) – 2:15
2. "Orgone Accumulator" (Calvert/Brock) – 8:45
3. "Upside Down" (Brock) – 2:45
4. "Sonic Attack" (Moorcock) – 2:50
5. "Time We Left (This World Today)" (Brock) / "Paranoia" [unlisted] (Brock) – 13:20
6. "10 Seconds of Forever" (Calvert) – 2:10
7. "Brainstorm" (Turner) – 12:00
8. "Wind Of Change" [unlisted] (Brock)
   "7 By 7" (Brock) – 8:50
9. "Master of the Universe" (Turner/Brock) – 7:40
10. "Welcome to the Future" (Calvert) – 2:55

• see starfarer for full catalogue of releases, re-releases, retitles of this album.

External links

1. ^ Melody Maker, 28 October 1972 - Watch This Space
2. ^ Music Scene, 1 December 1972 - Hawkwind Musicnauts
3. ^ Tour Programme – An extract from the Saga of Doremi Fasol Latido
4. ^ Collectable Records – Original foldout cover and inner sleeves

• Jon's Attic – Sounds review, 19 May, 1973
• HawkFanFare – Melody Maker review, 19 May, 1973
• Starfarer – NME review, 19 May, 1973
• Starfarer – Mojo review, July 1999
• Starfarer – Classic Rock review, Nov 2000