Talk:Peter Hammill

message: I don't think this article should feature any external links apart from 
the one to the official Peter Hammill (SofaSound) site - 
SofaSound itself has a list of links to fan sites.--feline1 09:59, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: I think the article should attempt to describe what makes Hammill's lyrics so distinctive (although of course it's their combination with his vocal delivery which tends to *really* make them distinctive) - but they do feature a lot of vocabulary, literacy & imagery not generally present in yer average pop song, and the article should note this - to the casual wiki reader unfamiliar with his music, it's certainly which differentiates him from Madonna or Kylie Minogue :) or Anyone, for that matter :) However I'm struggling to find a way to say this without descending into fanboy PoV blabber though. Anyone lend a hand?--feline1 11:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: lyrics

message: I won't change it back again, but I think you're the one being silly in insisting that Hammill is a progressive rock musician :)  May I ask politely how much you know about him?  I have every one of the 50-odd PH/VdGG albums and have seen him live countless times, and my firm belief is that he has absolutely nothing to do with the genre of progressive rock.--Richardrj 08:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progressive Rock or not? 

message: I've made a couple of changes, splitting collaborations and guest appearances.  The rationale is that the former are credited as 'PH and...' whereas the latter are credited to the other artist alone.  And I've moved Veracious to the main discography section, since it seems to me to be more of a PH album than a PH/SG album - as evidenced by the fact that it is credited as 'PH with SG' rather than 'PH and SG'. --Richardrj 14:58, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discography 

message: Please see my comment on the ph7 discussion: PH7 (Peter Hammill album). However I see other artists and albums have already received ratings too.
I don't think it's a good idea. But I guess I have no choice to make use of the ratings system too...--Peter Eisenburger 15:33, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place ratings on Wikipedia? 

message: The guitarist tag is misleading. I wouldn't see Peter Hammill as a genuine "guitarist". --Peter Eisenburger 15:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ? He has composed around half his songs on guitar, and has played some electric or acoustic guitar at almost every live concert and every album he's recorded.--feline1 12:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guitarist tag 

message: Hi, I was just browsing. As somebody who isn't an expert I have to say that this article needs a lot of work. The biography is mainly a long ramble about the distinction between Hammill's solo work and is group work. There is no real biographical information. No sources are cited. All in all, not very encyclopedic. If somebody wants to work on the article, I'm hoping that this general reader's impressions will help.
80.2.81.217 15:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs a lot of work

message: The use of images not in compliance with our fair-use criteria or our policy on nonfree content is not appropriate, and the images have been removed. Please do not restore them. — Moe ε 23:36, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use criteria

message: The reference to Viking, to illustrate a (useful) point about literary influences, is not only outdated (the song dates from 1967), but it's also a song that was not written by Hammill alone, but by Hammill/Smith. Maybe a better example can be found? Mark in wiki (talk) 15:46, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Viking

message: There's the following sentence: "has announced plans for a British and European tour in November," which is not very timely anymore, besides it fell through (there were 4 concerts in Japan, that's all), and there's a link to http://www.sofasound.com/nlnow.htm , which is not the newsletter this info came from, but rather the latest newsletter. Always only the latest newsletter stays online, and this link leads to the latest. So I removed the (obsolete) link and shortened the sentence. Mark in wiki (talk) 15:52, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: About 2006

message: I like finding little snippets in Peter's music that were sure to be inspirations for other artists.  The more I listen to Hammill's old albums the more I hear such examples.
From "Over", the beginning of "Autumn" sounds like it could have inspired the beginning of Marillion's awesome titletrack to "Script for a Jester's Tear" and "Yoga" could have served as an idea for "Emerald Lies" on "Fugazi".  Also from "Over", the song "Lost and Found" may have given Pink Floyd a few ideas for "Comfortably Numb".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cifrocco (talk • contribs) 21:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences 

message: The reason why it was deleted is that album covers are only allowed if they are used to illustrate the album itself, not the artist.  So it will probably get deleted again very soon, unfortunately.  We need to find a suitable image of him to illustrate this article.  I have been thinking about using an image from Flickr for this.  There are plenty of good pictures of him on there, and I understand that in certain circumstances images from Flickr may be used here without a problem.  I don't know any more about this, however.  Anyone? --Richardrj talk email 05:16, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm, I was searching for the 'rule' on that (album cover as artist image) but haven't found it, Can you point me in the right direction? :) (maybe I gaffed there!) Stephenjh (talk) 06:01, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images no.1 is the relevant rule.  It seems excessive to me, but rules such as this are zealously enforced these days. --Richardrj talk email 06:17, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a picture I took at his concert in NYC this week.  Freely licensed, up-to-date, and about the only good picture I got all night! gotroot801 • talk 12:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Album cover image 

message: It's rather clueless working in the paragraphs w/o referencing and rewriting much of the article. But I didn't find "strange" as appropriate, and I never came across this attribute in any of the reviews and literature about Hammill.--Peter Eisenburger (talk) 14:26, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charakterization 

message: I was at Manchester with him in September 1967. He was regarded in the Hall of Residence Owen's Park with some awe as 'that guy in the up and coming band'. I never saw him after the end of that academic year - I supposed he dropped out to concentrate on VdGG.
89.168.90.197 (talk) 20:39, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Manchester University

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message: Recently there was a nomination for deletion of the article Fie! Records, and the consensus was to merge it into the article Peter Hammill.
The article Fie! Records is not much more than a list of Peter Hammill releases (and a few others) with their release number. The releases by Peter Hammill are obviously (and in greater detail) already mentioned on the page Peter Hammill discography, and those by Van der Graaf Generator on the page Van der Graaf Generator discography. I am not sure what relevance mentioning these release numbers could have in an encyclopedic context, but if there is such a relevance, I feel it may be the best option to incorporate it in the respective discography pages. Mark in wiki (talk) 17:18, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Fie into Hammill