Jo Kendall

Broadcaster, filmmaker, musician and DJ Don Letts picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why we need more people like Joe Strummer

We all love to put on a favourite album, switch off the lights and just totally tune in. So does Colleen Murphy, and with her Classic Album Sundays she’s taken the experience further

X-Ray Spex's “mad glasses”, feminism, bondage trousers and a brilliant, troubled leader made these punk enigmas an alluring prospect

Fan of Motörhead, Sabbath and/or AC/DC? Then you might want to get caught up in the Black Spiders web

His film Gremlins inspired Scotland’s post-rock pioneers, but the actor remembers a dazed and confused summer camp soundtrack that matured into a lifelong journey of musical discovery.

The actress/comedian reveals her love of folk rock, Kate Bush and playing Tubular Bells at dinner parties! First published in Prog issue 22

The ITN Anchorman reveals how he got into prog - and defends Phil Collins' solo career! This was first published in Prog issue 23

The Oink! comic founder and Private Eye cartoonist on how he tuned in, turned on and dropped out to Manchester’s psychedelic awakening – and is still searching for weird sounds.

From a Saturday job selling records to Radiohead band members to putting the prog into Sonisphere festival, this Oxford don likes his music both epic and loud.

Firmly under the paw of Twitter sensation My Sad Cat, these days the DJ and author is ‘getting it together in the country’ with a purr-fect folk-prog playlist.

Goblins! Ballet! And ‘those other things’! The comedian, writer, actor and Infinite Monkey Cage creator scientifically dissects his 1am earworms.

“There’s been many a happy hour spent on the toilet thanks to Prog,” says the Waterloo Road, Catterick and Strictly Come Dancing star with a CV as eclectic as his taste in music…

Never mind the Buzzcocks, most days the Luxury Comedy and The Mighty Boosh chap has Frank Zappa, Hawkwind, Primus and hoovering up after Pond on his wandering minstrel mind.

With his Fripp-enhanced dialogue-free avant-garde horror flick Aaaaaaaah! just hitting our home screens, it’s a perfect time for a Sightseers’ tour of the actor-director’s sonic stimuli…

Son of space pioneer Neil Armstrong, the ‘hobby guitarist’ and Marillion supporter runs down his own musical explorations…

Throwing open an attic of treasures, the writer, broadcaster and former Whistle Test presenter David Hepworth remembers hyperventilating over The Beatles, am-dram prog lighting.

The London-based Northern Irish stand-up and Vitriola music podcast co-conspirator tells it like it is.

Street artist and gallery owner Pure Evil (actually a very polite Charles Uzzell-Edwards) gives us a guided tour of his record collection

Glasgow-born, but known for his Brixton-based cosmic punk fiction, the novelist with the award-winning sci-fi alter ego Martin Scott blows the pixie dust from his proggier pleasures.

He got into prog as a reaction to punk, now Al Murray is rocking our world with the theory that prog’s King isn’t necessarily Crimson…

Spurred on by the far-out sounds of the Bonzos, Zappa and Residents, the Judge Dredd and Batman illustrator is lucky to still be in one piece after Swans “broke him"...

Unsettling soundtracks from the past and I Monster mash-ups from the future: the Little Britain/Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle comic actor takes his prog-with-a-knowing-wink very seriously

Even if you’ve not bought a record from Phil Smee's Waldo’s or Bam-Caruso labels, you’ll own something that he designed, from Motörhead to Return To Ommadawn. He opens up his archive...