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Also known as Robert Newton Calvert

britischer Allroundkünstler, Dichter, Schauspieler und Musiker

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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…

Known for

  • 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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Robert Newton Calvert (* 9. März 1945 in Pretoria, Südafrika; † 14. August 1988 in Ramsgate, Kent) war ein britischer Rockmusiker, Dichter und Schauspieler. Bekanntheit erlangte er unter anderem als Frontman der Band Hawkwind.

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