Several recently published books have rescued the legacy of Peter Hammill’s band. Known as the ‘Vampire of Bath,’ the British ...

You can't have a serious conversation about the infancy of progressive rock without citing Van der Graff Generator (VdGG) as one of the genre's driving forces amid its influence back in the '70s and ...

At the end of 1976, after three albums over the remarkable two years since their reunion, Van der Graaf Generator were making some of the best music of their career. However, they were increasingly ...

500-page exploration includes input from its subject along with new interviews with music and business colleagues, and an ex ...

Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts Ostensibly a tale about the wrath of the sea, it plunges deep into the murky realms of insanity and transcendence, spanning the spectrum of human emotion: the ...

So said a drawn-looking, jumpy Peter Hammill on 17 June 1978. He’s on Austrian TV, sitting on an unmade bed in a hotel room, with a cigarette in his hand – a packet of Camels sits on the adjacent ...

The band Van Der Graff Generator is not a household name, and their music isn't necessarily for the household. As founding members of the British progressive rock scene in the early 1970's, Van Der ...

Some remained in obscurity because they were a little before their time – and some, quite frankly, were just too out there. Rockers We’ve Lost In 2013: Van Der Graaf Generator Bassist Nic Potter ...

So said a drawn-looking, jumpy Peter Hammill on 17 June 1978. He’s on Austrian TV, sitting on an unmade bed in a hotel room, with a cigarette in his hand – a packet of Camels sits on the adjacent ...

Progressive rock—that bastion of early '70s music which lost its dominance with the advent of punk in the middle of the decade—has seen a recent resurgence of interest. And so it's no surprise that ...

Van der Graaf Generator is an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriter Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith. Unique among “prog” rock bands, they became ...