Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad is an American singer, songwriter and cartoonist, born in New York City in 1951 and raised partly in England after his family moved there in 1965, where he went to school in Letchworth. He formed Slapp Happy in Hamburg with Anthony Moore and Dagmar Krause, an avant-pop trio that briefly merged with Henry Cow. He is also known for Leviathan, the comic strip he drew for The Independent from 1992. With Henry Cow, Slapp Happy made Desperate Straights and In Praise of Learning, both released in 1975 on Virgin. In 1977 Blegvad recorded Kew. Rhone.