Peter Hamill - The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 - 1986 [Super Deluxe Boxset]

Format: Super Deluxe Boxset - 18CD+2Blu-Ray
Catalogue No.: 6518101
Barcode: 0602465181012
Release Date: 26 Sep 2025
Genre: Rock

Peter Hammill first came to prominence as the founder member and voice of the legendary progressive rock group Van der Graaf Generator. Alongside his work with Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill has enjoyed a long career as an innovative and ground-breaking solo artist. Beginning with his first solo album “Fool’s Mate” in 1971, Peter recorded a series of acclaimed albums for both Charisma Records and Virgin Records covering a wide range of moods, but all undeniably and uniquely original and ground-breaking.

Peter Hammill’s work has been hailed by musicians such as John Lydon and David Bowie who expressed their admiration for his albums and his song writing.

This super deluxe box set comprises all 13 albums released by Charisma and Virgin, all newly remastered from the original master tapes, along with new 5.1 and stereo mixes of “The Future Now” and “pH7” by Stephen W Tayler, rare BBC sessions and live recordings and a Blu-ray video disc of rare previously unreleased European television performances.

There will also be a D2C offering with an exclusive postcard

Track Listing:
CD One:
“Fool’s Mate”
Imperial Zeppelin
Candle
Happy
Solitude
Vision
Re-Awakening
Sunshine
Child
Summer Song in the Autumn
Viking
The Birds
I Once Wrote Some Poems

Bonus tracks:
Demo session
Recorded in January 1971
Re-Awakening (demo)
Summer Song in the Autumn (demo)
The Birds (demo)
Sunshine (demo)
Happy (demo)
 

CD Two:
“Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night”
German Overalls
Slender Threads
Rock and Role
In the End
What it’s Worth
Easy to Slip Away
Dropping the Torch
(In the) Black Room / The Tower

Bonus tracks:
Rain 3am

Recorded in 1973
Time for a Change
German Overalls
Easy to Slip Away
In the End 

BBC Radio John Peel session – 9th July 1973
CD Three:
“The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage”
Modern
Wilhemina
The Lie (Bernini’s Saint Theresa)
Forsaken Gardens
Red Shift
Rubicon
A Louse is Not a Home

CD Four:
Live Recordings 1974
Rubicon
Red Shift

BBC Radio John Peel session – 18th February 1974
Solitude
Time for a Change
The Birds
Out of My Book
Slender Threads
German Overalls

Live at Montreal University Sports Centre – 21st April 1974
CD Five:
“In Camera”
Ferret and Featherbird
(No More) The Sub Mariner
Tapeworm
Again
Faint Heart and the Sermon
The Comet, The Course, The Tail
Gog
Magog (In Bromine Chambers)

Bonus tracks:
The Emperor in His War Room
Faint Heart and the Sermon
(No More) The Sub Mariner 

BBC Radio John Peel session – 3rd September 1974
CD Six:
“Nadir’s Big Chance”
Nadir’s Big Chance
The Institute of Mental Health, Burning
Open Your Eyes
Nobody’s Business
Been Alone So Long
Pompeii
Shingle Song
Airport
People You Were Going To
Birthday Special
Two or Three Spectres

CD Seven:
“Over”
Crying Wolf
Autumn
Time Heals
Alice (Letting Go)
This Side of the Looking Glass
Betrayed
(On Tuesday’s She Used to Do) Yoga
Lost and Found

Bonus tracks:
Afterwards
Autumn
Betrayed 

BBC Radio One John Peel session – 21st April 1977
CD Eight:
“The Future Now”
Pushing Thirty
The Second Hand           
Trappings                        
The Mousetrap
Energy Vampires            
If I Could            
The Future Now
Still in the Dark
Mediaeval         
A Motor-Bike in Africa  
The Cut
Palinurus (Castaway) 

CD Nine:
The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA
16th February 1978
House With No Door
Time Heals
This Side of the Looking Glass
My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)
Easy to Slip Away
Still Life
Lizard Play
Time for a Change
Been Alone So Long
Modern
If I Could
Last Frame

CD Ten:
The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA
16th February 1978
The Comet, The Course, The Tail
The Lie (Bernini’s Saint Theresa)
The Mousetrap (Caught In)
In the End
Medley: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers / The Sleepwalkers
Man-Erg 

CD Eleven:
“pH7”
My Favourite
Careering
Porton Down
Mirror Images
Handicap and Equality
Not for Keith
The Old School Tie
Time for a Change
Imperial Walls
Mr X (Gets Tense)
Faculty X 

Bonus tracks:
Mediaeval / Time for a Change
Mr X (Gets Tense)
Faculty X

BBC Radio John Peel session – 24th September 1979
The Polaroid

A-side of single – Released as Charisma CB 399 in August 1979
Credited to Rikki Nadir

CD Twelve:
“A Black Box”
Golden Promises
Losing Faith in Words
Jargon King
Fogwalking
The Spirit
In Slow Time
The Wipe
Flight
Flying Bird

The White Cave Fandango
Control
Cockpit
Silk Worm Wings
Nothing is Nothing
A Black Box

CD Thirteen:
“Sitting Targets”
Breakthrough
My Experience
Ophelia
Empress’s Clothes
Glue
Hesitation
Sitting Targets
Stranger Still
Sign
What I Did
Central Hotel

CD Fourteen:
“The Love Songs”
Just Good Friends
My favourite
Been Alone So Long
Ophelia
Again
If I Could
Vision
Don’t Tell Me
The Birds
(This Side of) The Looking Glass

Bonus track:
Just Good Friends (instrumental)
B-side of single – Released as Charisma CB 414 in May 1985
CD Fifteen:
“Skin”
Skin
After the Show
Painting By Numbers
Shell
All Said and Done
A Perfect Date
Four Pails
Now Lover 

Bonus track:
You Hit Me Where I Live 

CD Sixteen:
“And Close as This”
Too Many of My Yesterdays
Faith
Empire of Delight
Silver
Beside the One You Love
Other Old Cliches
Confidence
Sleep Now 

CD Seventeen:
“The Future Now”
Stephen W Tayler stereo remix
Pushing Thirty
The Second Hand           
Trappings                        
The Mousetrap (Caught In)
Energy Vampires            
If I Could            
The Future Now
Still in the Dark
Mediaeval         
A Motor-Bike in Africa  
The Cut
Palinurus (Castaway)

CD Eighteen:
“pH7”
Stephen W Tayler stereo remix
My Favourite
Careering
Porton Down
Mirror Images
Handicap and Equality
Not for Keith
The Old School Tie
Time for a Change
Imperial Walls
Mr X (Gets Tense)
Faculty X

Disc Nineteen – Blu ray
“The Future Now”
Stephen W Tayler High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix / new stereo remix
Pushing Thirty
The Second Hand           
Trappings                        
The Mousetrap
Energy Vampires            
If I Could            
The Future Now
Still in the Dark
Mediaeval         
A Motor-Bike in Afrika  
The Cut
Palinurus (Castaway)

“pH7”
Stephen W Tayler High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix / new stereo remix
My Favourite
Careering
Porton Down
Mirror Images
Handicap and Equality
Not for Keith
The Old School Tie
Time for a Change
Imperial Walls
Mr X (Gets Tense)
Faculty X 

Disc Twenty - Blu-ray
The video vaults
In the End
German Overalls 

French TV – Rock en Stock 1973
The Lie
Forsaken Gardens
A Louse is Not a Home 

Swiss Television 1974
Energy Vampires
My Room

French TV – Chorus 1979
Tintagel By the Sea

BBC TV – “Playaway” 15th December 1979