The Hawkwind discography on my map runs to 39 albums, from the 1970 debut through to There Is No Space for Us in 2025, and I logged the credited musicians and guest performers for all of them by hand from the sleeve notes. 63 different people appear across those 39 records, many of them on a single release. Dave Brock is the only line that runs the whole length without a break, and Lemmy Kilmister lasted four albums between 1972 and 1975 before leaving to form Motörhead.
Each album is a station on my Hawkwind music map, with every contributor drawn as a line running through the band's sprawling history.
The Hawkwind Discography in Order of Release, 1970 to 2025
Here are the 39 albums on the map, in order of release:
| Album | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hawkwind | 1970 | Debut |
| In Search of Space | 1971 | |
| Doremi Fasol Latido | 1972 | |
| Hall of the Mountain Grill | 1974 | |
| Warrior on the Edge of Time | 1975 | |
| Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music | 1976 | |
| Quark, Strangeness and Charm | 1977 | |
| 25 Years On | 1978 | Released as Hawklords |
| PXR5 | 1979 | |
| Levitation | 1980 | |
| Sonic Attack | 1981 | |
| Church of Hawkwind | 1982 | |
| Choose Your Masques | 1982 | |
| The Chronicle of the Black Sword | 1985 | |
| The Xenon Codex | 1988 | |
| Space Bandits | 1990 | |
| Electric Tepee | 1992 | |
| It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous | 1993 | |
| White Zone | 1995 | Released as Psychedelic Warriors |
| Alien 4 | 1995 | |
| Distant Horizons | 1997 | |
| In Your Area | 1999 | Part live, part studio |
| Spacebrock | 2000 | |
| Take Me to Your Leader | 2005 | |
| Take Me to Your Future | 2006 | |
| Blood of the Earth | 2010 | |
| Onward | 2012 | |
| Stellar Variations | 2012 | Released as Hawkwind Light Orchestra |
| The Machine Stops | 2016 | |
| Into the Woods | 2017 | |
| Road to Utopia | 2018 | |
| All Aboard the Skylark | 2019 | |
| Carnivorous | 2020 | Released as Hawkwind Light Orchestra |
| Somnia | 2021 | |
| We Are Looking In On You | 2022 | |
| We Are Looking In On You Too | 2023 | |
| The Future Never Waits | 2023 | |
| Stories from Time and Space | 2024 | |
| There Is No Space for Us | 2025 |
A word on that list. Across most of my range I map studio records only, and leave live albums and compilations off by editorial rule. Hawkwind is the band that makes that rule difficult. Several releases are part live and part studio, recorded on stage and then rebuilt in the studio to the point where separating them would misrepresent the catalogue. Where a release sits on that line I have flagged it above rather than quietly dropped it.
Core Members Across the Decades
Hawkwind's line-up has always been fluid, but several long-serving members define particular periods of the sound:
- Dave Brock, the only constant presence from the beginning, appearing on every album. Guitar, vocals, keyboards and synths. He is the spine of the map as well as the band, and the only line that runs the full length without a break.
- Nik Turner, whose early sax and flute work shaped the psychedelic edge. He appears on albums from 1970 to 1976 and returned later in live collaborations.
- Robert Calvert, vocalist and lyricist who fronted the band through the mid to late 1970s. His theatrical science fiction style shaped Quark, Strangeness and Charm, PXR5 and 25 Years On.
- Simon House, Huw Lloyd-Langton, Tim Blake, Harvey Bainbridge and Alan Davey are among the others who contributed long stints on keyboards, guitars and bass.
63 different musicians appear across the 39 albums, many of them on a single release. That density is the reason this map took longer to plot than almost anything else in the range.
Guest Appearances and One-Off Contributors
- Lemmy Kilmister played bass and sang during a brief but vital period from 1972 to 1975, including on Doremi Fasol Latido and Warrior on the Edge of Time, before leaving to form Motörhead.
- Ginger Baker of Cream played drums on Levitation in 1980.
- Road to Utopia (2018) featured orchestral arrangements and acoustic reworkings of older material, with Eric Clapton playing dobro on The Watcher.
Musicians by Album, a Data Breakdown
I tracked the number of contributors on each album, and a few patterns come out of it:
- In Search of Space and Warrior on the Edge of Time show the band at full strength, with seven to nine credited musicians.
- The 2020s albums hold a stable core of three to six people, mostly long-standing collaborators.
Is there a Hawkwind poster that shows all the line-ups?
Not that I have ever found, which is why I drew one. A Hawkwind poster usually gives you a Silver Machine sleeve or a festival bill, and the band has been through more musicians than almost anyone on my catalogue. My Hawkwind Discography Tube Map Art Print runs the albums in order across fifty-five years, with Dave Brock as the only line that survives the lot and Lemmy on four. It is a Giclée on archival fine art paper rather than a litho poster, and this page sets out what that difference means.
See the Full Music Map
All of this research sits in my Hawkwind Discography Music Map, where each musician is a coloured line running across the albums like a tube route. You can:
- Trace every line-up change
- Spot the returns, sometimes decades apart
- Compare the dense periods with the solo-heavy records
The Hawkwind Discography Map Art Print is a Giclée on 230gsm premium fine art paper, available in A3 (420 x 297mm), A2 (594 x 420mm, 23 x 16in) and A1 (841 x 594mm, 33 x 23in), plus 16 x 12in, 24 x 18in and 36 x 24in for buyers in the USA, every size unframed or in a black wood frame. Browse the full range in the music wall art prints collection.