His first solo album, Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters, was released in 1974. The record is a concept album, an amalgam of music and theatre focused around the Lockheed bribery scandals. In 1975, he won the Capital Radio poetry competition with his poem "Circle Line". In 1975, musician and producer Brian Eno produced and played on Calvert's second solo album, Lucky Leif and the Longships, a concept album which looked at the history of the US and the Vikings, who crossed the Atlantic to reach America before Columbus. In 1977, Hawkwind performed "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" on Marc Bolan's TV series, Marc. As well as Michael Moorcock and Brian Eno, Calvert's collaborators included Arthur Brown, Steve Peregrin Took, Jim Capaldi, Steve Pond, Inner City Unit, Vivian Stanshall, Nektar, John Greaves, Adrian Wagner, Amon Düül II and, posthumously, Spirits Burning, Dave Brock, and Krankschaft. Calvert suffered from bipolar disorder, which often caused a fractious relationship with his fellow musicians. At one point he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Despite his sometimes debilitating mental health, he remained a fiercely creative, driven and multi-talented artist. Personal life In 1966, according to the Sussex History Forum, he married Paulyn J.Morrell, in Thanet. He married Pamela Townley in 1977 and his third wife Jill in the early 1980s. He had 4 children. Death Aged 43, Calvert died of a heart attack in 1988 in Ramsgate, England, and was buried in Minster Cemetery at Minster-in-Thanet. His gravestone is engraved with the line "Love's not Time's fool", from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. One of his four children, Daren (1967–85), is buried with him, and is described on the gravestone as an "Adventurer". Discography Studio albums Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters (1974) Lucky Leif and the Longships (1975) Hype (1981) Freq (1985) Test-Tube Conceived (1986) Demo albums Blueprints from the Cellar (home-recorded demos) Revenge (demos with Pete Pavli – recorded 1980s, released 1999) Centigrade 232 (Voiceprint, 2007). Spoken word. Released as book/CD (VP403CDMO) and CD (VP403CD 2007) Live albums At the Queen Elizabeth Hall (Clear Records 1989, live album recorded on 1 October 1986. Reissued in 1993 as BGOCD 187) Robert Calvert and Maximum Effect Live at The Stars And Stripes, Carlisle (Stereo Records, 2009) Radio Egypt (Voiceprint VP384, rehearsals recorded at S Nicholas Barn, 26 September 1987, released 2006) The Right Stuff (Voiceprint VP385, recorded at Middlesbrough Polytechnic, 10 May 1986, released 2006) In Vitro