Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945- 14 August 1988) was the lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind, intermittently from 1972-1979, who went on to a less successful, but intriguing, separate career. He was believed to have suffered from bipolar disorder.

Major works

• Various albums with Hawkwind, including Space Ritual (1973), Astounding Sounds Amazing Music (1976), Quark Strangeness & Charm (1977), 25 Years On (1978) and PXR5 (1979).
• Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters (a concept album based on the history of the F-104 Starfighter)
• Lucky Leif and the Longships
• Hype (novel & album)
• Freq
• Test-tube Conceived

External links

• Knut Gerwers' Spirit of the Page Calvert site.
• A short Robert Calvert bio
• Robert Calvert on tour in 1986
• Gnawing Medusa's Flesh: The Science Fiction Poetry of Robert Calvert
• Working Down A Diamond Mine
• Review of Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
• An interview with Robert Calvert