The band Hawkwind are a fascinating Sci-Fi band combining elements of psychedelic, metal and synthesizer-rock. There's considerable give and take between them and genre author Michael Moorcock. On the one hand, they adapted Moorcock's fantasy antihero Elric into a double-album rock opera Chronicle of the Black Sword*. On the other Moorcock has written the band into several of his novels including the Swinging London psychedelic apocalypse Jerry Cornelius novels.

Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I think Moorcock has even performed with the band a few times in some capacity.

( * Note: this is the same sword sung about in Blue Oyster Cult's song Black Blade, penned by the author himself. )

Yep, and one of my favorite BLO songs, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, is also based on Moorcock's work. That one is on the soundtrack of the film Heavy Metal too.

Their most famous move came when they got sick and tired of their lead singer's legal and drug issues and kicked him out of the band. Lemme Killmister took a little Hawkwind song he wrote called Motorhead, formed a band with that name and went on to fame and fortune; leaving Dave Brock et al as footnotes in his CV.

Heh, well I'm not a huge fan of Motorhead. They have a few good songs, but to me it's all pretty standard fare. And although Hawkwind never attained that level of fame, you have to admire them for sticking it out when so many other bands would've/have given up by this point. I think they're basically a sci-fi Grateful Dead.

As for songs called Lolita, also include one by the Spanish-language gal Belinda off her album Carpe Diem. The album's packaging has a very Japanese gothic Lolita look with a few obligatory Alice visual cues.

Cool. There are a lot more songs called "Lolita" that I could've listed, but most of them use the term ironically and are dark songs about sexual abuse. I also have a long list of songs about more general feelings of love for children/girls, but I was trying to keep my list more on-topic.