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JUST seven days after David Bowie’s performance of “Starman” stunned viewers, the July 13, 1972 edition featured a grainy video of Hawkwind performing breakthrough single “Silver Machine” at Dunstable’s Queensway Hall. Sandwiched between The Stylistics’ “Betcha By Golly Wow” and Johnny Nash’s “I Can See Clearly Now”, the clip featured the band’s in-house dancer Stacia performing an ecstatic rite surrounded by Cro-Magnon longhairs. As frighteningly modern as Bowie had looked, he was still recognisably a creature from the world of showbusiness. Hawkwind, by contrast, seemed barely human.
