Hawkwind- Kings of Speed 7" Aut'd by Lemmy (Motorhead)
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Feb 28, 2008 Sold Date
Feb 18, 2008 Start Date
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On offer is an original 7" of Kings of Speed.  It is autographed by Lemmy and gained by me in 1982.  The single is in good condition but at some time someone has put tape round the single but it itself is mint.

Kings of Speed is a 1975 song by the rock group Hawkwind. It was originally released as a single in the UK (UP35808) on 7 March 1975 and was subsequently included on the album Warrior on the Edge of Time.

The lyrics for this song where written by Michael Moorcock, "Frank and Beasley" refer to characters from Moorcock's Cornelius books. Simon King stated that it was originally intended for inclusion of the Deep Fix album New Worlds Fair.

"It's very powerful - it's got two drums on it and it sounds fucking great. It's like a Phil Spector thing." - Alan Powell

The b-side has become one of Hawkwind's most well known songs because, written by Lemmy, he named his subsequent band after it. It is notable that the song title does not have an umlaut in it, that was added to the band name at a later stage. The lyrics, "Sun rise wrong side of another day, sky high and six thousand miles away" are explained as:

"I was on tour with Hawkwind in 1974, we were staying at the Riot House [Hyatt Hotel in Los Angeles] and Roy Wood and Wizzard were also in town. I got this urge to write a song in the middle of the night. I ran downstairs to the Wizzard room, got Roy's Ovation acoustic guitar, then hurried back to mine. I went on to the balcony and howled away for four hours. Cars were stopping and the drivers were listening then driving off, and there I was yelling away at the top of my voice." - Lemmy, Riffs That Changed The World

 


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