It was only their second-ever single, but it made a massive impact – and Brock still doesn’t really know how it happened ...

The Beatles' "Across the Universe" and Hawkwind's "Silver Machine" share a launching pad for the first round of our Rock Star Wars battle. You decide whose rocket ride plummets back down to earth. To ...

“Silver Machine” was not followed-up in trusted music biz fashion by another hit-seeking single but by the band’s third album, late November’s Doremi Fasol Latido, and an end-of-year tour which was ...

Nonetheless, Hall of the Mountain Grill didn’t chart high – in the UK, it peaked at 16 in late September 1974: when Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge and Tubular Bells were at numbers one and two ...