Peter Hammill: Heart Attack Music
Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 27 June 2004
When Peter Hammill collapsed in the street with a sudden heart attack last year, it didn't make the papers. The one-time singer of the group Van Der Graaf Generator is hardly a household name, but if his obituary had been written that day, the line of figures queuing up to pay tribute would have been starry.
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