Vision

Peter Hammill wrote "Vision", track five on side one of Fool's Mate, 3:13, recorded at Trident in April 1971 with John Anthony producing and Hugh Banton on piano. It is described as one of his most celebrated love songs, and it is still in his live repertoire. He remade it in 1984 for The Love Songs (Charisma, August 20, 1984, produced by Hammill and David Lord at Sofa Sound in Surrey): reworked, redubbed and remixed from the original multitracks, with the lead vocal re-recorded and Stuart Gordon on violin, 3:14. MusicBrainz lists other versions, among them live takes on Room Temperature Live (4:52), from Moir Hall in Glasgow on April 16, 1989 (4:09), at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith in June 2002 (5:08) and on Pno, Gtr, Vox (5:05); the length of the original is given as 3:13, 3:11 or 3:14 depending on the source.

Setlist.fm lists it 158 times among 899 setlists, and fan blogs describe it as a piano encore in Paris in January 2010 and at a Milan show. We found no comment from Hammill on the song, no chart entry, covers or samples, and could not tell whether our upload is the 1971 original, the 1984 remake or a live take.