''Over'' is the sixth studio album by the English singer and songwriter

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, released on Charisma Records in April 1977. It was issued for the first time on CD on

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in the early 1990s, and was reissued again in a remastered version in 2006 with bonus tracks. The album details the break-up of a long-term relationship with a woman known as Alice. The album was originally to be called ''Over My Shoulder'' with a different cover shot in which Hammill was caught looking back over his shoulder with a very mixed expression. The album was recorded during a period of line-up change for Hammill's band

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. It features VdGG drummer

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, VdGG's future recruit Graham Smith (formerly of String Driven Thing) on violin, and the return of VdGG's bass player from 1969 to 1970,

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. "This Side of the Looking Glass" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album '' The Love Songs''.

Track listing

Personnel

*Peter Hammill – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars , piano , synthesizer , Hammond organ *

– bass *

– drums * Graham Smith – violin * Michael Brand – orchestra conductor

Technical

*Dave Anderson, Ian Gomm – recording engineers (Foel Studio,

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) *Pat Moran – recording engineer, mixing (

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, Monmouthshire) *Frank Sansom – art direction *Sebastian Keep – photography

References

External links

Lyrics
on Hammill's Sofa Sound website

{{Authority control Over (1977 album) Over Charisma Records albums Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios