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Among the founding users of Hawkwind, saxophonist/flutist Nik Turner has already established possibly the most prolific and varied outdoors career of all group’s many alumni. Turner was raised in Margate, Kent, Britain, with potential Hawkwind bandmate Robert Calvert, and found Hawkwind’s initial 1969 lineup from a music group called Mobile …

The weird and wonderful Inner Town Unit were formed by ex-Hawkwind member and Oxford-born British eccentric Nik Turner (saxophone, vocals) in 1979, alongside Trev Thoms (guitar), Deceased Fred Reeves (keyboards), Baz Magneto (bass) and Mick Stupp (drums). Turner’s initial non- Hawkwind record was with Steve Hillage in 1977, entitled Sphynx …