Tracklist
- My Favourite2:47
- Careering (Don't Ask Me)4:03
- Porton Down4:19
- Mirror Images4:24
- Handicap and Equality3:53
- Not for Keith2:24
- Polaroid2:24
- The Old School Tie5:02
- Time for a Change2:58
- Imperial Walls4:15
- Mr X (Gets Tense)6:05
- 12Faculty X6:33
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About This Album
pH7 is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Charisma Records in September 1979. It was Hammill's 8th 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...".