Latest articles by Daryl Easlea
The 1991 album remains a controversial work for many – but for most of the musicians from both sides of the Yes divide, the road trip was its saving grace
Safer pyrotechnics, local hero status and the benefit of a Wallace & Gromit movie helped make his 2017 concert movie a very different experience from Floyd’s 1972 release
His 13th album, self-performed except for drums, is another example of his fathomless imagination and instrumental prowess
Keyboard icon looks back on his classical albums, recently assembled in a box set, recalls being knocked off the No. 1 spot by gardener Alan Titchmarsh – and remembers offering Peter Gabriel a new gig
17 CDs and three DVDs provide everything you need to know about a counterculture band many have heard of, but fewer have listened to
1974’s ambitious double-album took a heavy toll on the people who worked on it – then its lukewarm reception and bewildering stage show made things even more tense
J Willgoose, Esq and co apply their trademark take to the story of her 1937 disappearance in the Central Pacific
By the time they’d toured their 1973 album, they’d had a sit single, proved Phil Collins could deliver lead vocals, and offered a hint at what would come after Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel left
…and two of them occur before a single note is heard of the band’s 1975 classic
Peter Hammill remembers trimming down the music and the name to spend 18 months in a ferocious punk-tinged endgame that resulted in stunning live album Vital
Academic delivers trainspotterly detail with a personal touch in his in-depth analysis of the band’s work and achievements
Pink Floyd and Saucerful of Secrets bassist hails his friend and counterpart for inspired work with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and much more
Rick Wakeman recalls quitting with Jon Anderson, Steve Howe recalls hoping they’d return, and Trevor Horn recalls being dragged into the line-up that bounced back in 1980
Illness, heartbreak and stage fright may have led some to think of him as an also-ran – but under the radar he’s much, much more than the “ex-genius” people thought they read on a poster
A No.3 single in 1985, the song topped the charts in 2022 after appearing in Stranger Things – and the planet seemed to go Kate crazy
When the band released a 27-disc box set focusing on their formative days, it offered the chance to reassess their film soundtracks of that era – including two ‘widow albums’
Car, Scratch, Melt and Security log the incredible distance he covered between leaving Genesis and creating So
An untitled Trevor Rabin instrumental and an incredible 10-minute demo of Endless Dream crown the bonus elements of the 1994 ‘Yes West’ record
In 1986 Peter Gabriel released his fifth studio album So. It was a huge international hit. This is how it happened
He’d recorded Tubular Bells with substandard instruments but later Richard Branson personally delivered a world-class studio to his cottage. It still took Oldfield over 40 years to make sense of his original vision
The inside story of Pink Floyd's first new original music since 1994’s The Division Bell in aid of Ukraine
Cult 70s proggers’ absorbing sixth album presented at its fullest.
Set against the backdrop of the Falklands Conflict, the band’s last album with Waters came together while their break-up was on the horizon
Former Gong and Hawkwind member proves space-keys don’t have to be glacial, although one of the three records here feels more dated than the others
