Live Seventy Nine
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| Live album by Hawkwind | ||||
| Released | 21 July 1980 | |||
| Recorded | St. Albans, City Hall, 8 December 1979 | |||
| Genre | Space rock | |||
| Length | 45:10 / 55:55 | |||
| Label | Bronze | |||
| Producer | Hawkwind and Ashley Howe | |||
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| Complete '79: Collector Series Volume 1 | ||||
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| Live album by Hawkwind | ||||
| Released | 29 November 1999 | |||
| Recorded | Hammersmith Odeon, 1 December 1979 | |||
| Genre | Space rock | |||
| Label | Voiceprint Records - HAWKVP4CD | |||
| Producer | Hawkwind | |||
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Live Seventy Nine is a 1980 live album by Hawkwind recorded on their Winter 1979 tour. It reached #15 on the UK album chart.
This is a reconstituted Hawkwind with Brock, Bainbridge and King emerging from the dissolved Hawklords, joined by lead guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton who had played on the debut album Hawkwind and keyboardist Tim Blake who was a long-standing friend of the band and had played on Gong's Radio Gnome trilogy. This band embarked upon a UK Winter 1979 tour despite not having a record deal nor any product to promote, recording one of the shows.
Originally the band "didn't think the Oxford gig was very good, but we listened to the mixing-desk tape and were really surprised. So we mixed the master tape and got a deal with Bronze. If we hadn't got that deal, we'd probably have split up - we couldn't have carried on on our own." Manager Douglas Smith secured a two-album deal with Bronze Records, even if Gerry Bron confessed "I don't think we would have signed Hawkwind if it weren't for Motorhead, I can't say I was that interested... Once you run a record label and you're employing people, you have to make good commercial decisions - you can't turn away business, even if the business isn't what you particularly want to do".
The music is more energetic and aggressive than the previous albums released on Charisma Records and the album benefited in the rise in popularity of NWOBHM at the time.
"Shot Down in the Night" had been written by Hawklords keyboardist Steve Swindells for single release, but he departed during the year to record a solo album. The single was backed by the non-album cut "Urban Guerrilla" and reached #59 on the UK singles chart. Swindells also released a studio version of this track as a single and on his Fresh Blood album which he recorded with King, Lloyd-Langton and Nic Potter.
"Lighthouse" is from Tim Blake's solo album New Jerusalem.
"Silver Machine" explodes part way into the song and is suffixed with "Requiem" in Brock's attempt to kill it off, being sick of this 'hit single' he was expected to play every night.
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