Robert Calvert - Definition and Overview

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. He was believed to have suffered from bipolar disorder.

Major works

• Various albums with Hawkwind, including Space Ritual (1973), Astounding Sounds Amazing Music (1976), Quark Strangeness & Charm (1977), 25 Years On (1978) and PXR5 (1979).
• Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters (a concept album based on the history of the F-104 Starfighter)
• Lucky Leif and the Longships
• Hype (novel & album)
• Freq
• Test-tube Conceived

External links

• Knut Gerwers' Spirit of the Page (http://aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/) Calvert site.
• A short Robert Calvert bio (http://www.hostinganime.com/arkyn637/calvert/calvert.html)
• Robert Calvert on tour in 1986 (http://www.doremi.co.uk/icu/calvert.html)
• Gnawing Medusa's Flesh: The Science Fiction Poetry of Robert Calvert (http://aural-innovations.com/issues/issue18/02_sneyd.html)
• Working Down A Diamond Mine (http://aural-innovations.com/issues/issue18/03_jones.html)
• Review of Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters (http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/index.php?review_id=74)
• An interview with Robert Calvert (http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/university/222/radio/calvert/contents.html)