Originally Posted by
Bucka001
Hammill and Bowie knew each other in the late sixties, both were signed to Mercury. In a recent Record Collector interview, PH mentions knowing Bowie back then, and producer John Anthony remembers them being acquaintances. Bowie was also hanging out in the studio with VdGG when they made H to He in '70 (Judge Smith was there also and remembers this). Guy told me once that they'd heard from others that Bowie had the whole PH/VdGG collection at home. I had this confirmed when I asked Peter Doggett (a Bowie biographer) about it. He came across a 1973 quote from producer Ken Scott, who was speaking about Bowie at the time: "[Bowie] likes to listen to records a lot. If he gets into an artist he'll buy all their LPs and play them one by one. The last time I can remember him doing that was Van Der Graaf Generator . . . He's a collector, of anything and everything, experiences, influences, the lot."
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