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

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It's the Prog magazine that let's readers and writers alike get something off their chest...

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Is Iron Butterfly's psychedelic classic all about one song?

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With their fourth album, Juju, The Banshees changed the way they made music, creating a conceptual masterpiece inspired by Hitchcock, horror and an African bust unearthed in Forest Hill

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The Damned's crowdfunded return, their first in a decade, keeps things neat

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Prog legends will headline London's Palladium this Saturday and Sunday

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Innovative and genre-bending West Coast psych-rockers get boxed

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Whatever happened to the teenage rampagers? This fourCD box set finds out

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Not yet ratedTwists galore in blockbuster box set from late Can man

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Not yet ratedTijuana shoegazers channel the greats

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Not yet ratedTitle belies colours and softness, enhanced by Barbieri, Jansen and BJ Cole

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Not yet ratedFormer Kraftwerk and Neu! musician makes sparks fly

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TV documentary study of Heroic Berlin studio

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When The Dave Clark Five postponed recording a surefire hit, The McCoys got real

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In 1978, a 19-year-old Catholic girl from South London reconfigured the rock landscape. Forty years on, her strange phenomenon endures...

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A taken-for-granted talent hits rich form

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Deft Dubliner rides waves of emotion again

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Not yet ratedAcclaimed artists choose not to throw stones.

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Not yet ratedSwede dreams up a work of genius.

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Not yet ratedChris Roberts samples the new releases on the prog/rock boundary.

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Not yet ratedProbably the best Indonesian stoner psych you’ll hear this month.

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Not yet ratedPrince-endorsed prog poppers open out.

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Polanski Marmite re-scored by Malmo minimalists.

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Limited-edition collection of intimate photos of the band
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