thanks & acknowledgements

for support & supply

of the

Robert Calvert Site


...many people have supported me so far - passed on informations and material,
or quite simply: their encouragement...

My deepest thanks to anyone of you - especially to the following:

  • first off, in regards to the relaunch of this site, my thanks go out to Jerry Kranitz, who offered me the webspace to unload this ma/ess of data.

  • Jill Calvert, for her permission to let me use the material you can find on these pages ... - and Nicholas for spreading his charisma so generously over me.

  • Margaret, Gordon & Derek Calvert

  • Rodney Henson for offering these wild flowers of memory, for being the big white figure - and for the blue bubble, of course.

  • All the friends & collaborators of Robert Calvert who contributed to this project so far:
    Nik Turner / Jello Biafra / Pete Pavli / Paul Rudolph / Hilary Bailey / Paul Jerricho / Arthur Brown / Leonie Scott-Matthews & Godfrey Old / Martin Holdcraft / Adrian Wagner / John Weinzierl / Chris Karrer / Gary Cooper / Jaime Cortines / Martin Griffin / Harvey Bainbridge / Dave Brock / Steve Swindells / Steve Pond / Fred Reeves / Rat Scabies / Twink / Jeff Dexter / James Cawthorn / Tony Howard / Doug Smith / Tony Hyde / John Hughes (sorry, in case I've forgotten anyone...)

  • Michael Moorcock for his most valuable contributions.

  • Pete Pavli (aka Sgt. Karelli) for sending the invaluable texts, for nice phone-calls...and everything.

  • Ghislaine Nichols & Isidore Elias for keeping up the work on the Test-Tube Babies front.

  • Jarmilla Karas for the 'Bicycle Poem' and more.

  • Nigel Ayers for his input - a voice on Calvert & Hawkwind I was hoping for a long time.

  • Sandy Cameron for passing on the precious tape of The Kid from Silicon Gulch and all his memories.

  • Peter Zabulis for the wonderful photo(s) from 1978...

  • ge0rgie for the Düsseldorf-pic AD '72...

  • Chris Gibbs for passing on all those infos, texts and transcribing page after page of interviews and lyrics....

  • Alan Linsley for transcribing that looong interview

  • Nicole Chungfat for transcribing THE BOX.

  • Kenneth Magnusson, Stefan Renström, Hans Møll, Clas Edmundsson, Ulf Nylen - in short: The Moor for their work, collaboration and contributions...

  • Ralph Beauvert - for being the valuable writer, musician and contributor - sound- and "Aktenordner"-wise.

  • Phil Franks for all the stories, pics and the good e-mail times - & to Malcolm Humes of course - for all the same and all his 'web-wonkering'.

  • Tommy Grenas & Alien Gnudarve Lovjoy of FAR FLUNG, for their encouragement, archives and contributions....

  • Steve Sneyd for the inspiring article on Robert's poetry.

  • Ulrich Gutmair for all his work on Robert and the spirit of the p/age - in sounds and words.

  • Ami Hassinen for inspiring mails and precious packages - and all his future undertakings.

  • K. Sören Bengtsson of DarXtar, for infos and all the things and texts lying ahead...

  • Andy Gilham for typing ALL those words and the proof-reading ... (pardon my laziness, Andy)

  • Mike Wright for the pics.

  • Marty Lawrence for those great slides!

  • Max Wilcox for all the goodies you've sent & the nice comments on this site...

  • Melissa Joseph, Jill Strobridge, Mike Holmes & Oz Hardwick ... these people I got to know via the net...thank you for all the very valuable material and all those e-mails...

  • Paul Ward ... for spreading the news, writing all those prompt responses and being generally nice and extremly supportive ....

  • Tim Gadd ... for this extraordinary tape from Down Under ...

  • John Hughes ... for you know what ...

  • Peter Moltesen ... for sending such great material and pix.

  • Rainer Wangler, Bernhard Pospiech & Harald Stuermer ... for being the nice and helpful Hawkwind maniacs that they are ...

  • Martin Haggerty ... for kind letters & infos ...

  • the Calvert & Hawkwind fan-club-trinity: Trevor Hughes, Brian Tawn and Adrian Parr for passing on the useful infos - (an extra THANKS to Trevor for these big packages...) - oh yes, and to the German HW fanclub-appendix: Dietrich Pless, for spreading the news ...

  • Roger Neville-Neil .... for tons of witty letters, infos, typing & Fu-Manchu-ing ...

  • Gavin Wilson & Richard Beeching ... for the most valuable material.

  • Roy Dunn for passing the news and letters .

  • ...and last - certainly NOT least: Adrian Shaw ... for all those tapes, pleasant conversations - and for simply being the nicest guy I came across in this whole twisted undertaking ...



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