Latest articles by Chris Roberts
He talks about their early character clashes, the studio trick he learned from Brian Eno, recording versus playing live, and why he got the blame as the band became more musically streamlined
He remembers his first drum, being a keen footballer but not a good one, how he got his audition with the band that made his name, and what he really thought of acting
It took them 10 years to find the time, but The Roaring Waves sees the Marillion and Genesis icons following each others’ lead in turns – and includes one song they believe will shock prog fans
22 shows, 25 songs, 80,000 witnesses – her triumph was tinged with terror, but she’ll never forget the love she felt from her audiences in 2014
Barely planned, recorded in fits and starts and complete with one of King Crimson’s Mellotron, their 1972 album was, they believe, the moment they began to be taken seriously
Taken from fourth album Fragile, the 1972 release horrified them at first. Later they realised it had secured their future
It took the revamped band months of worry off stage but just half an hour of fun on stage to secure their future in 1976
After a Number 1 hit, touring with the prog giants and taking endless risks, the singer’s roller-coaster ride approached a new high when he released two albums in 2016
Six months of classic rock, prog rock, stoner rock, southern rock, country rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, power pop, heavy metal, punk and all forms of rock'n'roll
50 years ago, as Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel, the always-divisive band had fans to appease and debts to pay. This is how they did it
The proto-prog debut album that followed blockbuster single A Whiter Shade Of Pale contained an 18-minute suite and challenging lyrics. It was everything the late Gary Brooker wanted it to be – almost
Ambitious from the start, the conspiracy-theory obsessives were always going to have to move on from their early days of excess. This is how they did it
The keyboard wizard recalls accepting a presentation disc from the suit who’d made his 1974 project difficult – and the advice from David Bowie that had kept him fighting for it
Why did he miss out an entire piano solo? Why did Steve Hackett leave during mixing sessions? Did the band sound better on stage than in the studio? Did early fans stop liking them because they became popular? The keyboard master speaks out
Bauhaus can lay claim to being the founding fathers of goth
Shaking with nerves, the band’s former full-time drummer took over the main mic in Canada in March 1976
Few musicians have had the impact that Kate Bush has had
Respected by Jimi Hendrix and signed at 17, the mercurial guitarist’s heart was broken by the relative failure of his best album, says bassist
Their 1967 epic would go on to be hailed as a genre-changing song, although they just regarded it as modern blues
Buying guide Famously discovered by David Gilmour, Kate Bush made history with her first single and hasn't looked back
Late co-founder always felt that collaborating was like “two people painting a picture on the same canvas.” But that didn’t stop him succeeding
1972 album, which saw them edging away from psychedelia back to standard rock, returns with live treats that hint at what was to come
Reissued version is split into sections with his blessing. The only flaw is a triggering Margaret Thatcher impersonation
