Both of its two founders have now died, but it’s time for the word of the flying teapot to spread much further – for Gong were a unique and great band
It was one of those peculiar – and in this case sad – coincidences that hippies love to find significance in. I had just half-jokingly posted on Facebook of my disgust that there was no Gong or Hawkwind in Pitchfork’s 200 Best Songs of the 1970s, when I saw the announcement of the death of Gong co-founder Gilli Smyth, sending me even further down the rabbit hole of the various Gong offshoots’ seemingly infinite back catalogue.
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