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Robert Calvert

Robert Newton Calvert (1945-1988) lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind, who went on to a less successful, but intriguing, separate career. He was believed to have suffered from Manic Depression.

Major Works:

Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters (a concept album based on the history of the F-104 Starfighter)
Lucky Leif and the Longships[?]
'HYPE' (novel)

Links:

Biographical website: http://www.thing.de/projekte/future/
Review of Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters (http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/index.php?review_id=74)

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