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Peter Hammill

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Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter. [1]

87 relations: A Black Box, Afrikaners, And Close As This, Art rock, Avant-garde, Bachelor of Liberal Studies, Baritone, BBC News, Beaumont College, Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night, Charisma Records, Clutch (Peter Hammill album), Consequences (Peter Hammill album), David Bowie, David Jackson (rock musician), Derby, Ealing, Enigma Records, Enter K, Everyone You Hold, Experimental rock, Falsetto, Fie! Records, Fireships (album), Fool's Mate (album), Gail Colson, Gary Lucas, Guy Evans, In a Foreign Town, In Camera (Peter Hammill album), Incoherence (album), Jimi Hendrix, John Ellis (guitarist), John Lydon, Judge Smith, Loops and Reels, Lyceum Theatre, London, Manchester, Manny Elias, Marillion, Mercury Records, Musique concrète, Nadir's Big Chance, NEARfest, Nic Potter, None of the Above (Peter Hammill album), NPR, Old Windsor, Ostinato, Other World (album), ..., Out of Water, Over (album), Patience (Peter Hammill album), PH7 (Peter Hammill album), Present (Van der Graaf Generator album), Prog (magazine), Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Punk rock, Received Pronunciation, Roaring Forties (album), Room Temperature (album), Saga of Erik the Red, Script for a Jester's Tear, Sex Pistols, Singularity (Peter Hammill album), Sitting Targets, Skin (Peter Hammill album), Society of Jesus, Spur of the Moment (album), The Aerosol Grey Machine, The Fall of the House of Usher (Hammill opera), The Future Now, The Independent, The Margin, The Noise (album), The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage, Thin Air (album), This (Peter Hammill album), Trisector, University of Manchester, Van der Graaf Generator, Van der Graaf Generator discography, Virgin Records, What, Now? (album), X My Heart (album), ...All That Might Have Been.... Expand index (37 more) »

A Black Box

A Black Box is the ninth studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on S-Type Records in August 1980.

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Afrikaners

Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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And Close As This

And Close As This is the 15th studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Virgin Records in 1986.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Bachelor of Liberal Studies

The purpose of the Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree is to provide students with a solid multidisciplinary preparation in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and the Arts, subsequently allowing them to pursue careers in education, business, government, and other such fields.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Beaumont College

Beaumont College was a Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England.

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Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night

Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night was the second solo album by British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill.

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Charisma Records

The Famous Charisma Label (Charisma for short) was a British record label founded in 1969 by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith.

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Clutch (Peter Hammill album)

Clutch is the 29th studio album by Peter Hammill, released on his Fie! label in 2002.

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Consequences (Peter Hammill album)

Consequences is British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill's 33rd solo album, released on his own Fie! Records label in April 2012.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Jackson (rock musician)

David Nicholas George Jackson (born 15 April 1947), nicknamed Jaxon, is an English progressive rock saxophonist, flautist, and composer.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Ealing

Ealing is a district of west London, England, located west of Charing Cross.

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Enigma Records

Enigma Records (also known as Enigma Entertainment Corporation) was a popular rock and alternative American record label in the 1980s.

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Enter K

Enter k is the eleventh studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on the Naive Records label in October 1982.

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Everyone You Hold

Everyone You Hold is the 24th studio album by Peter Hammill, released in 1997.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Falsetto

Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.

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Fie! Records

Fie! Records is a record label founded by English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill in 1992.

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Fireships (album)

Fireships is the 19th studio album by English singer and songwriter Peter Hammill.

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Fool's Mate (album)

Fool's Mate is the debut solo album by Peter Hammill of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator.

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Gail Colson

Gail Colson is a retired music manager, whose company Gailforce Management Ltd. represented clients including Peter Gabriel, The Pretenders and Peter Hammill.

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Gary Lucas

Gary Lucas is an American guitarist who was a member of Captain Beefheart's band.

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Guy Evans

Guy Randolph Evans (born 17 June 1947, Birmingham) is an English drummer, percussionist and composer.

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In a Foreign Town

In a Foreign Town is the 16th studio album by the English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill.

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In Camera (Peter Hammill album)

In Camera is the fourth solo album from the English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill.

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Incoherence (album)

Incoherence is the 30th studio album by Peter Hammill, released on his Fie! label in March 2004.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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John Ellis (guitarist)

John Ellis (born 1 June 1952,Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate,, p. 155 Kentish Town, London) is an English guitarist and songwriter.

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John Lydon

John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Judge Smith

Christopher John Judge Smith (born July 1948), is an English songwriter, author, composer and performer, and a founder member of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator.

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Loops and Reels

Loops and Reels is the 12th studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on cassette on the Sofa Sound label (catalog number SS4) in June 1983.

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Lyceum Theatre, London

The Lyceum Theatre (pronounced ly-CEE-um) is a 2,100-seat West End theatre located in the City of Westminster, on Wellington Street, just off the Strand.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manny Elias

Manny Elias (born 1953) is an Indian-born British drummer, notable for being the original drummer with Tears for Fears during the 1980s.

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Marillion

Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Musique concrète

Musique concrète (meaning "concrete music")" problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.

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Nadir's Big Chance

Nadir's Big Chance is the fifth solo album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1975.

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NEARfest

The North East Art Rock Festival, or NEARfest for short, was a multi-day event celebrating the resurgence of progressive and eclectic music in the United States and around the world.

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Nic Potter

Nic Potter (18 October 1951 – 16 January 2013) was a British bassist, composer and painter, best known for his work with the group Van der Graaf Generator in the 1970s.

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None of the Above (Peter Hammill album)

None of the Above is the 26th studio album by Peter Hammill, released on his Fie! label in 2000.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Old Windsor

Old Windsor is a large village and civil parish, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.

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Other World (album)

Otherworld is a collaborative album by English singer Peter Hammill and American guitarist Gary Lucas.

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Out of Water

Out of Water is the 17th studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Enigma Records in 1990 and subsequently re-released on Hammill's own Fie! label.

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Over (album)

Over is the sixth studio album by the English singer and songwriter Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in April 1977.

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Patience (Peter Hammill album)

Patience is the 13th studio album by Peter Hammill.

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PH7 (Peter Hammill album)

pH7 is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Charisma Records in September 1979.

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Present (Van der Graaf Generator album)

Present is the ninth studio album by British progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator, released in 2005.

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Prog (magazine)

Prog is a British magazine dedicated to progressive rock music.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom and is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", although it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.

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Roaring Forties (album)

Roaring Forties is the 21st studio album by Peter Hammill, released on his own Fie! label in 1994.

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Room Temperature (album)

Room Temperature is a live album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Enigma Records in 1990.

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Saga of Erik the Red

Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red is a saga, thought to have been composed before 1265, on the Norse exploration of North-America.

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Script for a Jester's Tear

Script for a Jester's Tear is the debut studio album by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion, released in 1983.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Singularity (Peter Hammill album)

Singularity is the 31st studio album by Peter Hammill, released on his own Fie! Records label in December 2006.

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Sitting Targets

Sitting Targets is the tenth studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Virgin Records in June 1981.

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Skin (Peter Hammill album)

Skin is the 14th studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on vinyl on Foundry Records in 1986 and later re-released on CD on Virgin Records.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Spur of the Moment (album)

Spur of the Moment is an album of experimental music by Peter Hammill and Guy Evans, originally released as cassette tape on the Red Hot label.

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The Aerosol Grey Machine

The Aerosol Grey Machine is the debut studio album by English progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator.

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The Fall of the House of Usher (Hammill opera)

The Fall of the House of Usher is an opera by Peter Hammill (music) and Chris Judge Smith (libretto).

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The Future Now

The Future Now is the seventh studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1978.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Margin

The Margin is a live album by Peter Hammill, documenting early nineteen-eighties concerts by his K Group.

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The Noise (album)

The Noise is the 20th studio album by the English singer and songwriter Peter Hammill.

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The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage

The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage is the third album by British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill.

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Thin Air (album)

Thin Air is British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill's 32nd solo album, released on his own Fie! Records label in June 2009.

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This (Peter Hammill album)

This is the 25th studio album by Peter Hammill, released on his Fie! label in 1998.

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Trisector

Trisector is the tenth studio album by the British rock group Van der Graaf Generator.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.

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Van der Graaf Generator

Van der Graaf Generator are an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriters Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith and the first act signed by Charisma Records.

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Van der Graaf Generator discography

This discography covers the work of the English band Van der Graaf Generator.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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What, Now? (album)

What, Now? is the 27th studio album by singer-songwriter Peter Hammill, released on his Fie! label in June 2001.

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X My Heart (album)

X My Heart is the 22nd studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Hammill's own Fie! Records in 1996.

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...All That Might Have Been...

...All That Might Have Been... is British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill's 34th solo album, released on his own Fie! Records in November 2014.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hammill

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