Somewhere on the South Coast, 1968. Left to Right: Judge, Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton. I can remember the session, just about, but had no Idea where it was taken, or who the photographer was, until recently, when I read 'Van der Graaf Generator - The Book'; the tautologically titled, but most informative and beautifully put-together work of research by Jim Christopulos and Phil Smart. Hugh is dressed as Beethoven; I appear to have returned after a hard day as an extra on 'Witchfinder General', and Peter has an endangered species on his head. How could we not have been successful?

Photographer: Dunstan Pereira