It might have been Lemmy’s penultimate record with the band – he was let go within a year of its September 1974 release – but he often attested that Hall Of The Mountain Grill marks Hawkwind’s zenith.
Nonetheless, Hall of the Mountain Grill didn’t chart high – in the UK, it peaked at 16 in late September 1974: when Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge and Tubular Bells were at numbers one and two ...