Church of Hawkwind is a 1982 studio album by Hawkwind released under the name Church of Hawkwind. The name change reflects the fact that this was a musical departure for the band, being a more experimental electronic offering rather than the usual heavy rock that the band were known for at the time. Dave Brock resurrects the Dr Technical alias which he had previously used for production of the band's 1972 hit single "Silver Machine". This is almost a Dave Brock solo album considering the heavy bias towards his work, and none of these tracks were performed live by the band, save "Looking In The Future" which was re-recorded as "Letting In The Past" on It is the Business of the Future to be Dangerous. The CD bonus tracks were recorded in the 1990s and seem at odds with the overall feel of the album, and they were placed in the middle of a resequenced side 2 disrupting the flow of the album, for example the rowing that linked "Some People Never Die" with "Light Specific Data" now has 5 tracks in between. Although credited to Dave Brock, the track "Some People Never Die" is in fact a direct copy of the track "They Call Me Gun" on an obscure lp "On The Seventh Day" (US Mercury Records 61248, 1970), right down to the famous President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald shooting commentary. An alternative edit of "Some People Never Die" is on "SpaceBrock" (2000).
