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"Ahead of the art-rock curve": Bill Nelson’s Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam Deluxe Box Set
By James McNair published
Ex-Be Bop Deluxe leader’s 1981 solo release is greatly expanded to impressive effect

Bill Nelson announces previously unreleased guitar instrumental album Studio Cadet
By Jerry Ewing published
Bill Nelson digs out 2015's "gleaming guitar melodic soundscape" album Studio Cadet from the archive for December release

Bill Nelson just released two albums – and he has at least nine more coming up
By Chris Roberts published
Making the most of his freedom from the mainstream music industry, the 75-year-old Be Bop Deluxe mastermind says his health issues are making him work faster, not slower

Bill Nelson announces new "loud, edgy" new album Powertron
By Jerry Ewing published
Bill Nelson. will release hs new album Powertron, originally recorded in 2016, in May

Tangerine Dream's Phaedra at 50 is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
By Jerry Ewing published
Plus Chester Thompson, Big Big Train, Stackridge, Bill Nelson, The Pineapple Thief, Damian Wilson & Adam Wakeman and loads more...

“It should be illegal to be in a band, and only those willing to be arrested and locked up should try and pursue music”: Bill Nelson was only partly joking with his pre-punk manifesto
By Paul Lester published
From psychedelic troubadour to art rocker, the Be-Bop Deluxe leader has always been about crossing musical boundaries and encouraging others to do the same

Bill Nelson discusses the concept behind new album Starlight Stories
By Jerry Ewing published
Be-Bop Deluxe founder Bill Nelson has just released brand new abum Starlight Stories

"It’s more exciting to be influenced by what could be done rather than what is being done. That’s a progressive outlook.” Jesus Jones' Iain Baker on why he rates Bill Nelson so highly
By Natasha Scharf published
Jesus Jones keyboard player Iain Baker on why the Be Bop Deluxe man is his prog hero
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