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Gentle Giant’s only live album, Playing The Fool, and its reinvention after five decades
By Stephen Lambe published
Presenting their concert experience on record was a steep challenge in 1976. Now they’ve reconstructed the tapes to make it feel like you’re there, complete with heckling

How Gentle Giant told Black Sabbath they were being "ripped off" in the 1970s
By Fraser Lewry published
Gentle Giant frontman Derek Shulman recalls the fraught 1972 meeting that ended with Ozzy Osbourne throwing a bottle at management

Gentle Giant's Derek Shulman to publish career-spanning memoir, Giant Steps, in October
By Jerry Ewing published
Giant Steps traces Derek Shulman's career from Simon Dupree & The Big Sound through Gentle Giant to record executive working with Bon Jovi, Dream Theater, AC/DC and more...

We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
By Jerry Ewing published
The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now, and also featuring Richard Sinclair, Gentle Giant, Peter Baumann, Katatonia

Gentle Giant’s Playing The Fool – The Complete Live Experience is an exceptional work
By Daryl Easlea published
The real-life running order is reinstated, audience sound is returned and Derek Shulman’s song introductions are heard in souped-up version of 1977 classic

Gentle Giant share brand new live video for Free Hand
By Jerry Ewing published
Gentle Giant will release the reimagined, remastered and remixed Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience in May

Gentle Giant's Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience will be released in May
By Jerry Ewing published
Gentle Giant's classic 1977 live album has been reimagined, remixed and remastered

“You can spend hours studying them and still not get it”: Nik Kershaw’ on Gentle Giant
By Malcolm Dome published
One of the 80s hitmaker’s early bands covered two of their songs – but it took him years to realise their genius, and he still doesn’t truly understand it
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