Hype (album)

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Hype
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1981
Recorded1981
StudioFree Range Studios, Covent Gardens, London
Genre Rock
Label A-Side Records
Producer Robert Calvert
Robert Calvert chronology
Lucky Leif and the Longships
(1975)
Hype
(1981)
Freq
(1984)

Hype is a 1981 album by singer Robert Calvert, the former frontman of British space-rock band Hawkwind.

Contents

It is subtitled The Songs of Tom Mahler as a tie-in to Calvert's only published novel Hype, the novel being a fictional account of the rise and death of a rock star.

The musicians used for the recording include three members of the band Bethnal, whom Calvert befriended during their support slot on Hawkwind's 1977 UK tour.

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Calvert.

  1. "Over My Head" - 3:11
  2. "Ambitious" - 3:37
  3. "It's the Same" - 2:40
  4. "Hanging Out On the Seafront" - 3:46
  5. "Sensitive" - 3:37
  6. "Evil Rock" - 4:39
  7. "We Like to Be Frightened" - 2:59
  8. "Teen Ballad of Deano" - 3:01
  9. "Flight 105" - 3:53
  10. "The Luminous Green Glow of the Dials of the Dashboard (At Night)" - 3:52
  11. "Greenfly and the Rose" - 3:51
  12. "Lord of the Hornets" - 3:58
Bonus Tracks
  1. "Over My Head" (different lyrics)
  2. "Flight 105" (instrumental)
  3. "Hanging Out On the Seafront" (different lyrics)
  4. "Lord of the Hornets" (different version)

Personnel

Release history

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