Post #148326 by freddiefreelance on Tue, Mar 22, 2005 7:32 AM

On 2005-03-21 13:24, Cool Manchu wrote:
Oh and the BOC song, “Black Blade” is about Stormbringer, an evil sword that steals souls, made famous in the Michael Moorcock (unfortunate name) series about Elric of Melnibone. Another interesting side note is, Lemmy, formally of Hawkwind (now of course with Motorhead) said that Moorcook used to come out and read poetry before Hawkwind shows, which makes sense since Hawkwind was another one of his characters…

Manchu, the connections are even deeper than that: "Black Blade"'s lyrics were written by Michael Moorcock himself, he also wrote "Veterans of the Psychic Wars" & "The Great Sun Jester", and he has appeared with BOC on several occasions to sing these! Plus, not only did Michael Moorcock appear at HW shows to read poetry, he was one of their early lyricists ("Sonic Attack," "The Black Corridor," most of the "Chronicle of the Black Sword" album) & occasionally would appear with the band as vocalist. He also used a number of Hawkwind members in his band the Deep Fix.

I'm sending you a PM momentarily.