Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 2023

Members: Peter Hammill, Graham Smith, Nic Potter, Chas Dickie, Guy Evans, Hugh Banton, Keith Ellis, David Jackson, Judge Smith, Nick Pearne

Formed in the UK in 1967 by Peter Hammill, Chris Judge Smith and Nick Pearne (now deceased). After a period of activity during the 1970s, the band broke up (although not for the first time) in 1978, seemingly for good.

The "classic" line-up of Hammill, Guy Evans, Hugh Banton and David Jackson, reformed the band again in 2004 and released the studio album Present. Since September 2006 Van Der Graaf Generator has worked as a trio, without David Jackson.