PH7

pH7 is an album by the English musician Peter Hammill. It was released on Charisma Records in September 1979. It was Hammill's eighth solo album and his last release on the Charisma label. The song "Porton Down" refers to the Porton Down military research facility in Wiltshire, England, while the lyrics of "Imperial Walls" are a translation of the first few lines of the Anglo-Saxon poem "The Ruin". The song "Not For Keith" is a tribute to Keith Ellis, a former member of the band Van der Graaf Generator, who had then died just recently. "Cover note: The photographs were all taken late at night in NYC. As we left Dan's [the photographer's] place in search of a cab Graham [Smith] and I ran into some trouble from which, frankly, we were lucky to escape...". "My Favourite" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs. "Faculty X" is a reference to extrasensory perception in the books of Colin Wilson. In 2006, the album was remastered and expanded, adding alternative versions of "Mr X" and "Faculty X" recorded for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 programme, as well as a new sleeve note by Hammill. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PH7_(Pe...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)