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Roaring Forties (album)
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Roaring Forties Hammill’s principal mode has moved since this album to-
wards a more intimate, chamber-music style.
The album also contains "A Headlong Stretch", one of
Hammill’s occasional long, episodic song suites (see also
"A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" from Pawn Hearts and
"Flight" from A Black Box).
Track listing
1. "Sharply Unclear"
2. "The Gift Of Fire"
3. "You Can’t Want What You Always Get"
4. "A Headlong Stretch"
• Up Ahead
• Continental Drift
Studio album by Peter Hammill • The Twelve
• Long Light
Released September 1994 • Backwards Man
Recorded August 1993-May 1994, Terra Incognita, Bath • As You Were
• Or So I Said
Genre Art rock
5. "Your Tall Ship"
Label Fie!
Producer Peter Hammill Personnel
Peter Hammill chronology • Peter Hammill: guitar, piano, vocals
• Nic Potter: bass
The Noise Roaring Forties X My Heart • Stuart Gordon: violin
(1992) (1994) (1996)
• Simon Clarke: organ
• David Jackson: saxophone, flute
Roaring Forties is an album by Peter Hammill, released on • Manny Elias: drums, percussion
his own Fie! label in 1994. It, and the following album,
X My Heart, are Hammill’s most recent albums that pri-
marily contain an organic, full-band rock style. While
References
there are occasional tracks on later albums in this style, [1] Sinclair, Ali. Roaring Forties (album) at Allmusic
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