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November 2025

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November 2025

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November 2025

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CLASSIC ALBUM REVIEW: “An extensive and comprehensive read… A wonderful book… Even if you’re a completist, you’re going to find something really interesting in this.”  25 November 2025

INTERNATIONAL TIMES: “intelligent, informed and articulate... ‘Visionary’ is about right, for Hammill and perhaps for Banks himself. This is the VdGG/Peter Hammill book people like me have been waiting for.”  28 November 2025 (click on the logo to read online)

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THE AFTERWORD: “impressive and immersive... this thoughtful study, very detailed and yet still highly readable, provides a thorough and nuanced critical appreciation of Hammill's work."  2 December 2025 (click on the logo to read online)

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ECHOES AND DUST: “With Rock and Role, Banks puts you right in the middle of the movie theatre as the screen reveals a band singing about witchcraft, the apocalypse, a lighthouse keeper on the brink of insanity, a tyrant who rules with an iron fist, the living dead, and every bloody emperor..."  19 November 2025 (click on the logo to read online)

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ROCK and ROLE: The Visionary Songs of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator

is both a highly readable biography and an in-depth critical appreciation of one of music’s great unsung heroes. Published 4 December 2025 - pre-order it here

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