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Prog 2026 Proms News Story Pic
BBC's 2026 Proms season to feature a Prog Prom for the very first time!

By Jerry Ewing Published

"Prog is simply great music," says this year's Prog Prom curator and 6 Music Freak Zone presenter Stuart Maconie

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Anthony Phillips
Anthony Phillips’ fight through pain barrier to make his new piano album

By James McNair Published

It took him three years to complete guitar-free project as he struggled with wrist issues, while resisting the urge to preprogram pieces on synth (much)

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Bassist Mike Rutherford (left) and singer Phil Collins performing on stage with English progressive rock group Genesis, April 1976. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
Phil Collins’ first show as Genesis singer, 50 years ago

By Chris Roberts Published

Shaking with nerves, the band’s former full-time drummer took over the main mic in Canada in March 1976

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(MANDATORY CREDIT Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images) British guitar player Steve Hackett performs at The Venue in London on 30th June 1978. (Photo by Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images)
“Genesis said they liked the track, which was ironic. It was one of the reasons I’d left”: Steve Hackett’s risky solo move

By Mike Barnes Published

A fateful Jaco Pastorius show, a run-in with LA cops, rebuilding a Genesis song… Please Don’t Touch! aimed to tackle the unanswerable question, ‘What is prog?’

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Phil Collins posing for a photograp in 2008
Phil Collins comes clean about wanting to join The Who and Led Zeppelin at Live Aid

By Mark Ellen Published

A candid interview with Phil Collins from 2016

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Genesis posing for a photograph in 1980
The story behind the Phil Collins hit that Genesis wish they'd recorded

By Paul Brannigan Published

"There’s always a dispute about this"

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Steve Hackett in 1975
“Some fans preferred it to Genesis”: The unexpected consequences of Steve Hackett’s Voyage Of The Acolyte

By Mike Barnes Published

Guitarist believes his solo debut proved Genesis had a future after Peter Gabriel’s departure – but it also led to two years of soul-searching

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Peter Jones
“Anyone who says it’s not a Genesis album isn’t a real fan”: Camel’s Peter Jones loves music that others hate

By Grant Moon Published

Multi-instrumentalist Tiger Moth Tales leader shares a couple of contentious opinions, while heaping praise on his boss Andy Latimer

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Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th anniversary
“Pretentious, perhaps. But let’s call it pioneering”: Why we still love Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

By Mike Barnes Published

Surreal imagery, crediting classic poets and philosophers, trying to scare each other with freak-out jams, inspiration from mime artists… it’s without doubt the most adventurous music any member the band ever made

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OSLO, NORWAY - APRIL 29: Mike Rutherford of Mike & The Mechanics performs at the Rockefeller Music Hall on April 29, 2019 in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by Per Ole Hagen/Redferns)
“We have an identity crisis”: Mike + The Mechanics’ history is a bit more rock’n’roll than Genesis’

By Mark Blake Published

Spurred on by surprise early success, Mike Rutherford’s band endured a tough time with a demon-haunted singer, then a replacement who expected rehearsals to be all thought and no action

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