Revisionism, Spacerocker style.

So i'm listening to *Hawkwind*'s Quark Strangeness and Charm (on RealPlayer), and the "Album Info" thingie up in the corner is telling me all this stuff about Hawkwind - sort-of true stuff ror the most part, but just little bits from here and there in their history - the kind of thing that was true in, like 1973, but not in 1980.

And then it ups and says:

Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind because his preferred vice (amphetamines) clashed with that of the band (hallucinogenics).

Uh huh. Right. Clashed so strongly that they recorded Mötörhead, a (hit) that song Lemmy wrote about speed (which song he later named his own band after).
In simple fact, Lemmy was dumped mid-tour - cut loose while he was in jail, i believe - after being busted at the border on a US-Canada tour for a suspicious white powdered substance in his luggage.
Quoting from Wikipedia:

However, during a North America tour in May, Lemmy was caught in possession of amphetamine crossing the border from the USA into Canada. The border police mistook the powder for cocaine and he was jailed, forcing the band to cancel some shows.
Fed up of his erratic behaviour, the band fired the bass player...

Like Hawkwind was ever particularly reliable or even sane as a band.
No - they basically just weaseled out on their mate and cut and ran.
And, of course, while "Hawkwind" may still be a name to conjure with in certain circles, *Mötörhead* is definitely the bigger success...
What's that about "He who laughs last..."
Oh yeah:

He who laughs last just doesn't want to let on he hasn't seen the joke.