Levitation (album)

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Levitation
Levitation cover
Studio album by Hawkwind
Released 1980
Recorded 1980
Genre Space Rock
Label Bronze Records
Producer Hawkwind and Ashely Howe
Professional reviews
Hawkwind chronology
Live Seventy Nine (1980) Levitation (1980) Sonic Attack (1981)

Levitation is a 1980 studio album by Hawkwind. It reached #21 on the UK album chart.

The recording of this album began with the same line-up that had produced the previous Live Seventy Nine album, but King dropped out during the sessions and was replaced by Ginger Baker.

A good proportion of these tracks had been played on the preceding tour and so were well arranged, but here less boisterous than their live counterparts. In the absence of Robert Calvert, lyrics tend to be cursory and the number of instrumentals is increased.

"Who's Gonna Win The War?" was released as a single backed by the non-album "Nuclear Toy".

Contents

Side 1
  1. "Levitation" (Brock) 5:48
  2. "Motorway City" (Brock) 6:48
  3. "Psychosis" (Bainbridge) 2:22
  4. "World Of Tiers" (Bainbridge/Lloyd-Langton) 3:30
Side 2
  1. "Prelude" (Blake) 1:28
  2. "Who's Gonna Win The War?" (Brock) 4:45
  3. "Space Chase" (Lloyd-Langton) 3:27
  4. "Fifth Second Of Forever" (Brock/Lloyd-Langton) 3:11
  5. "Dust Of Time" (Brock/Bainbridge/Lloyd-Langton) 6:22
bonus track on Griffin CD
  1. "Nuclear Toy" (Brock/Lloyd-Langton) 3:30

  • Recorded at the Roundhouse, London, July and August, produced with Ashely Howe. This is one of the earliest rock albums to be recorded with the burgeoning digital recording technology.
  • Sleeve by Linda Curry and Phil Tonkyn.

  • Nov-1980: Bronze Records, BRON530, UK vinyl initial copies pressed on blue vinyl
  • Jun-1987: Castle Communications, CLA129, UK CD and vinyl
  • Dec-1988: Castle Communications, TFO17, UK 2CD and vinyl with Live Seventy Nine
  • Feb-1992: Castle Communications, CLABX911, 3CD with Live Seventy Nine and Space Bandits
  • Sep-1994: Griffin Records, GCD 230-2, USA CD
  • Jul-1999: Essential Records, ESMCD736, UK CD digipak

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Members
Dave Brock – Mr Dibs – Jason Stuart – Richard Chadwick

Former members: John Harrison – Terry Ollis – Dik Mik Davies – Nik Turner – Huw Lloyd-Langton – Dave Anderson – Del Dettmar – Robert Calvert – Lemmy – Simon King – Simon House – Alan Powell – Paul Rudolph – Adrian Shaw – Harvey Bainbridge – Steve Swindells – Martin Griffin – Tim Blake – Ginger Baker – Keith Hale – Alan Davey – Danny Thompson Jr – Bridget Wishart – Ron Tree – Jerry Richards
Discography

Studio Albums: Hawkwind – In Search of Space – Doremi Fasol Latido – Hall of the Mountain Grill – Warrior on the Edge of Time – Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music – Quark, Strangeness and Charm – 25 Years On – PXR5 – Levitation – Sonic Attack – Church of Hawkwind – Choose Your Masques – The Chronicle of the Black Sword – The Xenon Codex – Space Bandits – Electric Tepee – It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous – White Zone – Alien 4 – Distant Horizons – In Your Area – Spacebrock – Take Me to Your Leader – Take Me to Your Future

Live Albums: Space Ritual – Live Seventy Nine – Live Chronicles – Palace Springs – The Business Trip – Love in Space – Hawkwind 1997 – Yule Ritual – Canterbury Fayre 2001 – Spaced Out in London

Archive Albums: The Weird Tapes – Hawkwind, Friends and Relations – The Text of Festival – Zones – This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic – Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin – Space Ritual Volume 2 – Hawkwind Anthology – Out & Intake – BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert – The Friday Rock Show Sessions – Hawklords Live – California Brainstorm – Undisclosed Files Addendum – The 1999 Party – Glastonbury 90 – Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2 – Complete '79: Collectors Series Volume 1 – Atomhenge 76 – Live 1990

Singles: "Hurry on Sundown" – "Silver Machine" – "Urban Guerilla" – "Psychedelic Warlords" – "Kings of Speed" – "Kerb Crawler" – "Back on the Streets" – "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" – "Psi Power" – "25 Years" – "Shot Down in the Night" – "Who's Gonna Win The War?" – "Angels of Death" – The Earth Ritual Preview EP – "Needle Gun" – "Zarozinia" – Decide Your Future EP – Quark, Strangeness and Charm EP – Area S4 EP – "Love In Space" – "Spirit of the Age"
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