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Peter Hammill
English
Musician
Born:
Nov 5
,
1948
Always
Had
People
Think
Time
You
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I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
Peter Hammill
Between
Werewolf
Being
Flip
So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.
Peter Hammill
Alienated
Feel
Happened
Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
Peter Hammill
Time
People
Few
Own
Out
Never
Had
Songs
Couple
Go
Been
Covers
Few People
Done
Them
Really
Marc
Publishing
The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.
Peter Hammill
Time
You
Live
Think
Topic
Definitely
Main
Recurring
Stuff
Passage
Still
Continuing
Forever
Going
Thing
My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.
Peter Hammill
Family
Mother
Tree
Saw
Had
Trace
She
West
Aunt
Up
Trying
Stopped
Grandfather
Turned
Who
Pakistani
Started
I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.
Peter Hammill
Guilt
Faithful
Too
Battlefield
Stuff
Sure
Because
Catholics
Fierce
Produce
Ever
Jesuits
I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.
Peter Hammill
You
Way
Say
See
Could
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Suppose
Terms
Audience
Go
Than
Stone
Blue
Going
May
Interested
Disinterested
Mean
Less
Now
Phase
Career
To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.
Peter Hammill
Stage
To Be Honest
Know
Really
Honest
There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band.
Peter Hammill
You
Band
Enough
Van
Totally
Fair
Like
Audience
Always
Sound
Hear
Wants
Why
Why Not
More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.
Peter Hammill
Work
People
Parents
Thanks
Solo
Collections
Van
Seem
More
More People
Generator
Suppose
Know
Material
Lingering
Than
Vinyl
If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.
Peter Hammill
Thankful
Me
You
Heart
Think
Mine
Kind
About
Given
Attack
Output
Write
Perform
Affected
Lot
Going
Capacity
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