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 ...

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 ...

Van Der Graf Generator never made big. But, hey, they never became bombastic, either. Unlike contemporaries such as Yes or Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the British prog-rock band remains an underground ...

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 ...

For a group that has released only three studio albums since reforming in 2005 after a quarter-century hiatus—longer when considering the "classic" lineup with singer/pianist/guitarist Peter Hammill, ...

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 ...