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Take Me to Your Leader (Hawkwind album)

album by Hawkwind

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ1192163 ↗
Source-derived summary

Take Me to Your Leader is the twenty fourth studio album by UK rock group Hawkwind. Released in 2005, it was their first studio album in five years. It featured guest appearances by Arthur Brown, Lene Lovich, the television presenter Matthew Wright and past member Lemmy. The first 2000 copies came with a DVD containing interviews with band members and some live and "behind the scenes" footage [1].

Editorial summary

“Take Me to Your Leader (Hawkwind album)” enters the record as album by Hawkwind. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Take, Your and Leader can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Take, Your and Leader.
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Why this record matters

“Take Me to Your Leader (Hawkwind album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Take, Your and Leader provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1192163. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Take Me to Your Leader (Hawkwind album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.