Robert Calvert
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South African poet, writer, musician (1945-1988)
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Born Robert Newton Calvert on 9 March 1945 in Pretoria, South Africa. Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two. At the end of the 1960s he moved to London and joined the flourishing 'psychedelic' subculture. He soon became one of its most active members; joining, amongst other activities, Frendz, one of the leading underground magazines of the time. During that time he acquainted…
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- Hawkwind: Do Not Panic — Self2007
- Hawkwind - Space Ritual — Vocals2007
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Robert Calvert is best known as the on-off frontman of influential rock group Hawkwind. Robert was born in 1945 in Pretoria, South Africa. His family moved to Kent in England in 1947. He grew up wanting to be a fighter pilot but ended up a writer, an enthusiastic participant in the 1960s London psychedelia subculture. After meeting Hawkwind co-founder Dave Brock in 1970, Robert joined the underground icons as resident poet, reading his work amid strobes and light cascades on stage. <a href="http
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Pretoria
- Place of death
- Ramsgate
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- voice
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1945-03-09
- date of death
- 1988-08-14
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- bipolar disorder
- member of
- Hawkwind
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