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Peter Hammill
English musician and recording artist
For persons of a similar name, see Peter Hamill (disambiguation).
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Peter Hammill onstage at NEARfest, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, June 2008 | |
| Birth name | Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill |
| Born | (1948-11-05) 5 November 1948 (age 76) Ealing, London, England |
| Origin | Manchester, England |
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| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, record producer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards |
| Discography | Peter Hammill discography |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Labels | Charisma, S-Type, Virgin, Naive, Foundry, Enigma, Fie! |
| Member of | Van der Graaf Generator |
| Website | www.sofasound.com |
Musical artist
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. In 2012, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the first Progress
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Pete Hamill (born June 24, 1935) is an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City with his wife, writer Fukiko Aoki and has two daughters Adriene and Deirdre Hamill and one grandson.
Pete Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, N.Y., the first of seven children of Catholic immigrants from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His father, Billy Hamill, emigrated in 1924 and lost a leg from an injury in a semi-pro soccer game three years later in Brooklyn. Pete's mother, Anne Devlin, arrived in New York in 1929, on the day the stock market crashed. Billy and Anne met in 1933 and married in 1934. He worked as a clerk in a grocery chain, in a war plant after 1941, and after the war in a factory that made lighting fixtures. Anne, who graduated from high school in Belfast, worked in Wanamaker's department store, as a domestic (before she married), a part-time nurses' aide, and as a casher in the RKO movie chain.
Their son Pet
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In the Now
by Anil Prasad
Copyright © 2013 Anil Prasad.
Peter Hammill has nothing to prove to anyone—except himself. At 64, Hammill remains in his creative prime, recording and releasing some of the finest music of his 46-year career. The British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is a fixture of the progressive rock scene as the co-founder and primary songwriter of Van der Graaf Generator. First established in 1967, the group is the epitome of art rock without compromise. The band’s adventurous, genre-defying music, featuring complex lyrics and Hammill’s dramatic vocals, has earned it immense critical acclaim and a hardcore global cult following.
The group initially disbanded in 1978 and reformed in 2005 to record Present, a reunion album that featured Hammill along with keyboardist Hugh Banton, drummer Guy Evans, and saxophonist David Jackson. The band slimmed down to a trio in 2008 with Jackson’s departure. For most of its existence, the group prominently featured Jackson’s sax work as a signature element of its sound. Long-t
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