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Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English musician and recording artist. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer-songwriter, he also plays guitar and piano and produces his own recordings and occasionally those of other artists.
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Nov 5, 2023 · In the early ‘80s, Peter Hammill, the former lead singer for Van der Graaf Generator, was in the process of doing something similar to what his peer, pal Rock and Roll Globe Real writing about real music.
Nov 5, 2022 · Standing apart from the crowd can be a hazardous business, but Peter Hammill has somehow always made it look easy. Famously, he was the only major figure from the progressive rock world to be given a free pass by the otherwise unforgiving punk rock scene that exploded in the UK in the late 70s.
Nov 6, 2008 · Musician Peter Hammill isn't a household name, and his music isn't necessarily for the household. As a founding member of the British progressive rock scene in the early '70s, Hammill reaches...
Aug 7, 2023 · Peter Hammill is on a serious roll. Van der Graaf Generator, the band he co-founded in 1967 and who spluttered to a halt in the late 70s, are very much back on the agenda; as is his prolific solo career, a fascinating body of work that offers more than 30 albums’ worth of intense avant-rock and distinctly personal musings on life, love and ...
Peter HAMMILL is one of the most unique and influential voices in prog. He was the pivotal figure in VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR (VDGG for short) who formed in 1967 at Manchester University. His obsession with lost love, lost faith, time, space and existence itself are the cornerstones of both his work with the band and his solo albums.
Nov 16, 2017 · Peter Hammill is now very much an elder statesman of progressive rock. Setting up as an independent at the turn of the 80s with his own studios and label, he has continued to amass a challenging, never-less-than-fascinating body of work.
Feb 18, 2021 · Peter Hammill’s superb In Translation, his first ever covers album, due for release on CD & Digital formats on May 7th, with vinyl to follow at a later date.
Apr 3, 2021 · When Peter Hammill presents a new album, especially a solo album, you find yourself needing to hang on every word, to look straight away for the detail, how is he feeling? What has he to say? More self portraits? The different Peter Hammills?
