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THE GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION
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Deep dive into the roots of a prog-adjacent R&B legend.
When budding singer-songwriter Peter Hammill, recently signed to Mercury Records, came down to London in 1968, his label asked a more experienced player to take their fledgling artist under his wing awhile. “He was the first professional musician I ever met,” said Hammill some years later about his brief time spent in organist Graham Bond’s company. By then, Bond was well on his way down a path leading to a dark abyss of drink, drug addiction, depression and a deepening obsession with all things occult. When he died in 1974, under a train in London’s underground, he was just 36.