Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters

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Why spend so much time putting something like this together, only to make a mistake on the important bit? United Artists label as per this version but it also includes the printed inner sleeve with German eagle in light blue on silver background not shown in the pictures here. It was these severe structural modifications which rendered the jet unstable and difficult to control. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters is a 1974 satirical concept album by Robert Calvert, the former frontman of British space-rock band Hawkwind.

Hardly the stuff of fluff, it’s no surprise that Calvert, who, according to the liner notes, always wanted to join Britain’s Royal Air Force (he even wore R. The spoken word parts do move the story along and are somewhat humorous in parts, but they also sadly reveal Calvert's crumbling mental state Oddly enough, Arthur Brown appears as the Gremlin who ultimately takes down the Starfighter's plane.I have this original version with insert containing lyrics and dialogue stapled to inside center of gatefold.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I was so happy to get this remaster and glad to see that it offered three bonus tracks, including an extended version of "The Right Stuff". Between the music there are humoristic dialogues of German officials inspecting the army, businessmen doing trade with Americans and some excerpts from pilot conversations from a Starfighter cockpit.

It is nowhere to be found on the album, but turned up years later on a crap Hawkwind collection with Calvert femme-vocalising.

Both music and storyline are more sophisticated and serious than in an average Hawkwind album, maybe because Robert had more control over the production.The spoken word interludes reinforce the absurdity of the whole situation (featuring the loony Viv Stanshall) and inject a satirical wit missing from the more standard-based songs that are written from the perspective of the pilot, who, in the end must begrudgingly concede that “the radar screen’s projection/tells me I’m too late.