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VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR REACH ENDGAME WITH PAWN HEARTS
No-quarter prog heretics Van der Graaf Generator had nothing to lose when they made their third album in 1971, and divined new extremes of psychic trauma and existential crisis via hallucinogens, bloody-mindedness and ghostly visitations. Then they went to Italy, where they suffered huge rock stardom, riots, and terminal burn out. “We decided, fuck it, fuck everything,” they recall. “It had got completely out of control…”
Interviews by MARTIN ASTON
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