success

Top 10 songs about old age: The results
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Peter Hammill's Autumn is about what happens when your children leave home and it's just you and your wife. Not very rock'n'roll, but it's a situation many of us will have to face, and it's handled beautifully."
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1 Frank Sinatra – It Was a Very Good Year

2 Peter Hammill – Autumn

3 10cc – Old Wild Men

4 Randy Newman – Mikey's

5 Gladys Knight – The Way We Were

6 Dexys Midnight Runners – Old

7 Neil Young – Old Man

8 Danny Wilson – Ruby's Golden Wedding

I read the news in a paper:
no flowers, please, donations to charity
like the N.S.P.C.V.d.G.G. -
yeh, send the money
to Guy and Hugh and David and me.

It's a joke,
there is no hope left,
oh, whoever might disagree.

Tell me juicy rumours,
dish me the dirt,
go on and rip the back right off my shirt.

Tell me how I hate Hugh Banton,
tell us that the bank account is zero
and that anyway there's non-one left to play to...
oh, well, there you go.

Are we ever going to get this act together on time?

By Beppe Colli in CLOUDSandCLOCKS
July 29, 2003
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Peter Hammill about his independence and the myth of breaking up Van Der Graaf Generator just when they became successful!

Question: There has never been a time when you thought “Oh maybe I should use this producer because it sounds more…"?

Peter Hammill about creative ambitions, David Bowie and Peter Gabriel and not wanting big success!!

Question: This is still a big creative motivation?

Look out through your dark hair,
tell me the colour of your eyes when they're cool;
look out through the dark ages
and tell me what's covert, transfixing you.

Oh, you're nobody's business,
oh, you're nobody's business
and the patterns of your life
are suddenly twisted and torn
and gone are all the clothes that you've worn.
Just like yesterday's papers
you're tired and forlorn
and you're no-one.

Look back at the photos you've saved,
dead mementoes of your modeling days;
I look through all my cuttings of you,

Disclaimer:

The cuts in sentences are because of inaudibility of the specific recorded pieces.

I would like to get the first-hand information on what was the key reason for reunion…

Seems the fashion's for one-liners these days,
the kind that get up everyone's nose,
so much back-slapping that the vertabrae
are fatally exposed....
Me, I'm pushing thirty, pulling sixteen,
though much of what's around me is dead.
They got so shirty when I tried to glean
the meaning from what they'd said:
"If you wanna be a viable artist when you're twenty-five
you'd better be a meat-head by the time you're twenty-one."
But now I'm pushing thirty and I'm still alive,
so tell me who, tell me who has won?

See the survivors in the upcoming acts,