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Joe Banks</h2>
<p class="book__subtitle">£22 PB /£50 HB Special Edition
216mm x 156mm
512 pp. approx
ISBN: 9781907222849
Approx 150 BW &amp; Colour images</p>
Wraparound cover by Hawkwind cover artist John Coulthart.

<span style="color: #ff0000;">***Update: The Special Edition is now sold out. Paperback copies are currently on their way to bookshops and should be available by the end of August.***</span>

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Hawkwind are like no other band. Their influence reaches across the spectrum of alternative musics—from psychedelia, prog and punk, through industrial, electronica and stoner rock—and they continue to inspire devotion from fans around the world. They’ve been positioned as heirs to both Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground, and as Britain’s answer to the Grateful Dead and Krautrock. They’ve defined a genre—space rock—while operating on a frequency that’s uniquely their own.

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For a generation of young people growing up in an age of paranoia, with the planet on the brink of economic, ecological and nuclear catastrophe, Hawkwind offered a radical vision of sci-fi-inspired escapism. As commentators asserted that the countercultural experiment of the 1960s was over, Hawkwind took the underground to the provinces and beyond, fanning the flames of mainstream resistance.

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In Days Of The Underground, Joe Banks repositions Hawkwind as one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. Rejecting the accepted narrative that views the band as one long lysergic soap opera, he shows us just how revolutionary Hawkwind were and how enduring their legacy remains. Profusely illustrated with rare and previously unseen archival material, Days Of The Underground will rewire your perceptions of Hawkwind forever.

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<em><strong>SPECIAL EDITION DETAILS: SOLD OUT</strong></em>

– Hardback edition limited to 500 copies

<em>–  200-page BONUS BOOK
</em><em>Sideways Through Time:
An Oral History Of Hawkwind In The 1970s
</em>A 200-page companion volume of interviews, including DikMik, Nik Turner, Michael Moorcock, Stacia Blake, Alan Powell, Paul Rudolph, Adrian Shaw, Paul Hayles, Harvey Bainbridge, Andrew Lauder, Doug Smith, Jeff Dexter, Jonathan Smeeton, Renée Berg, Michael Butterworth, and Pamela Townley

– A reproduction of Michael Moorcock &amp; Jim Cawthorn’s ‘Sonic Assassins’ comic strip from <em>Frendz</em>

– Postcards featuring unseen photographs from the ‘Space Ritual’ shoot by Laurie Lewis

– Mystery item

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