PXR5

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PXR5
PXR5 cover
Studio album by Hawkwind
Released 1979
Recorded 1977-1978
Genre Space Rock
Label Charisma Records
Producer Hawkwind
Professional reviews
Hawkwind chronology
25 Years On
(1978)		 PXR5
(1979)		 Live Seventy Nine
(1980)

PXR5 is a 1978 studio and live album by Hawkwind released in 1979. It reached #59 on the UK album charts.

Hawkwind fragmented as a band around this time period and the album was pieced together by Dave Brock from various live tracks with some new material cobbled from the Quark, Strangeness and Charm line-up. Its release was delayed until the after the following Hawklords album, resulting in the strange This is the last but one message on the cover.

Contents

  1. "Death Trap" (Calvert/Brock) 3:51
  2. "Jack Of Shadows" (Calvert/House/Shaw) 3:28
  3. "Uncle Sam's On Mars" (Calvert/Brock/House/King) 5:44
  4. "Infinity" (Calvert/Brock) 4:17
  5. "Life Form" (Brock) 1:44
  6. "Robot" (Calvert/Brock) 8:14
  7. "High Rise" (Calvert/House) 4:36
  8. "PXR5" (Brock) 5:39

  • Tracks 1,2,8: Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Jan-1978
  • Tracks 3: Recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, 5-Oct-1977
  • Tracks 4,5: Recorded at Week Park Farm, 1978
  • Tracks 6,7: Recorded at Leicester De Montford Hall, 29-Sep-1977
  • Mixed at Rockfield Studios, Feb-1978. Engineered by Dave Charles and Anton Matthews.
  • Artwork by Phillip Tonkyn.

  • "Jack of Shadows" lyrics are inspired by Roger Zelazny's book of the same name.
  • "Uncle Sam's On Mars" this evolved from the Neu!-esque "Opa Loka", with a Calvert anti-US rant over the top of it. Its first performance was at the Cardiff Castle Festival, (Summer 1976) as 'Vikings on Mars' read by Calvert from his clipboard notes, and with the aid of a megaphone, on stage after Opa Loka. Robots also made a brief appearance as a poem at this historic gig.
  • "Infinity" uses a Calvert poem from Space Ritual.
  • "Robot" lyrics are inspired by Isaac Asimov's I, Robot book.
  • "High Rise" lyrics are inspired by J.G. Ballard's book of the same name.
  • "PXR5" lyrics deal with Hawkwind's transitory period between Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music and Quark, Strangeness and Charm

  • The CD issue was mastered from different tapes from the original vinyl version. The most notable difference is that "High Rise" is the live version without studio overdubs, so starts with a clunk rather than the smooth bass intro and has a coarser vocal from Calvert. Also "PXR5" gains an introduction that's missing from the original.

  • May-1979: Charisma, CDS4016, UK vinyl - first 5000 contained Pete Frame's Hawkwind Family Tree poster. The original cover had artwork of an incorrectly wired UK electric plug which caused controversy on safety grounds, so subsequent copies were released with a supposedly-unremovable sticker covering the offending artwork. Subsequent prints had the artwork blanked out.
  • Mar 1984: Charisma, CHC25, UK vinyl
  • Apr 1989: Virgin, CDSCD4016, UK CD

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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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