Chris Roberts
Chris Roberts has written about music, films, and art for innumerable outlets. His new book The Velvet Underground is out April 4. He has also published books on Lou Reed, Elton John, the Gothic arts, Talk Talk, Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, Abba, Tom Jones and others. Among his interviewees over the years have been David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Bryan Ferry, Al Green, Tom Waits & Lou Reed. Born in North Wales, he lives in London.
Latest articles by Chris Roberts

By Chris Roberts Published
Punk rock, flying fruit and rollerskating accidents – how Yes went from triumph to disaster at the end of the 1970s

By Chris Roberts Published
Replacing Jon Anderson and Rick Wakemen with Buggles duo Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes was controversial – but it resulted in one of their most underrated albums, Drama

By Chris Roberts Published
1977 album’s new vinyl version illustrates duo’s obsessive perfectionism - and producer Gary Katz’s patience

By Chris Roberts Published
Rick Wakeman was out, new boy Patrick Moraz was in, and Yes were about to make their most underrated album of the 70s

By Chris Roberts Published
Guitarist aimed “to be useful” in a band he believed had something to say

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Solo album number seven The Harmony Codex finds Steven Wilson triumphing by not trying too hard

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Sigur Rós's Átta: an album that quivers along a thin line between boring and beautiful

By Chris Roberts Published
Pioneer’s life and times include predicting that electronic music would change the world by thinking “not in terms of notes, but as music that you do with sounds and noise”

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The genre with the joke name that stuck: With a sonic imprint still discernible in all corners of music, these are five albums that tell the story of Krautrock

By Classic Rock Magazine Published
The self-titled Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is the album from the version of Yes that wasn’t technically Yes at all

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As he prepared to bring a live version of his classic solo album to the stage 40 years later, Rick Wakeman looked back on the epic Journey To The Centre Of Earth

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Prog sat down with Genesis keyboard player Tony Banks upon the release of his classical album Five to discuss his shift into classical music and his career in general

By Chris Roberts Published
Music history's parameters have been redefined on this sublime four-CD/seven-LP/two-LP selection curated by Steven Wilson

By Chris Roberts Published
50th-anniversary Record Store Day box of peak Todd Rundgren album Something/Anything

By Chris Roberts Published
Not yet ratedSixth from enduringly eloquent art-rock artisans

By Chris Roberts Published
Bruce Springsteen cranks up his soul-man jukebox on covers album, with mixed results

By Chris Roberts Published
HIM’s debut album Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 was released on this day in 1997

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What began as an impromptu phone call has snowballed into a punk prog supergroup with Stewart Copeland as frontman. Meet Gizmodrome – they’re “a hell of a lot of band!”

By Chris Roberts Published
The Outsider Tour Live is a scorching live set from Queen drummer Roger Taylor

By Chris Roberts Published
Stanmore’s finest Billy Idol gets his motor running on his second EP in a year, The Cage

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Prog took a tour around the Pink Floyd exhibition and this is what we thought...

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Metallica and Lou Reed’s Lulu album is still metal’s most controversial collaboration. This is how two unlikely worlds collided

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All The World Is A Stage is a five-CD set of live albums from the mighty Slade, three of them previously unreleased
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