Peter Hammill
Mike Barnes, Wire, The, March 2007
"I DIDN'T HAVE white tunnels, but I did have the feeling that if I got too tired, which at a certain point might have been an option, then I would just drop and it would have been into a black hole," says Peter Hammill, recalling his near death experience following a heart attack in 2003.
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