“My wife says, ‘You write nice songs then you spoil them.’ I’ve always thought they’d have been quite successful if somebody else had done them”: Van der Graaf Generator’s Peter Hammill has calmed down, but not entirely

Peter Hammill.

A key period in Peter Hammill’s creative life is celebrated in a recent 20-disc box set. The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971-1986 collates 13 of the prog visionary’s early solo albums, along with a selection of era-specific rarities. Prog catches up with the Van der Graaf frontman to unbox his early years as a solo artist.

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