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Van Der Graaf Generator in 1970
Song of the Day: With yesterday's David Byrne tracks being two of several by him with a house theme, today we visit another songwriter who uses them as metaphor extensively – Van Der Graaf Generator frontman Peter Hammill
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Peter Gabriel, aged 23, in the early days of Genesis.
Song of the Day: Moonlight, eccentricity and experimental obscurity have very much been the direction of SOTD recently, and so it's time to unashamedly progressively rock on to Peter Gabriel's old band at their finest – when he still led it
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Big Demis and friends: Aphrodite's Child back in the day
Song of the Day: Why the hell not? Let's delve deep into darkest psychedelia and prog-rock, do deep in fact, that we go Greek, in the company of Demis Roussos before be became a tent-wearing behemoth solo artist, and Vangelis Papathanassiou before his film score fame
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Frank Zappa: masterful, mischievous invention
Song of the Day: How could there a more joyful, eccentric, evocative and infinitely inventive opener than this, on album described by Zappa as "a movie for the ears" – 1969's Hot Rats?
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