Johnny Sharp
Johnny is a regular contributor to Prog and Classic Rock magazines, both online and in print. Johnny is a highly experienced and versatile music writer whose tastes range from prog and hard rock to R’n’B, funk, folk and blues. He has written about music professionally for 30 years, surviving the Britpop wars at the NME in the 90s (under the hard-to-shake teenage nickname Johnny Cigarettes) before branching out to newspapers such as The Guardian and The Independent and magazines such as Uncut, Record Collector and, of course, Prog and Classic Rock.
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Cambridge rockers The Treatment have no qualms about signing up for some dumb fun on Waiting For Good Luck

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Loved by some, loathed by others, Inglorious frontman/main man Nathan James is no stranger to being the brunt of verbal abuse. But is it deserved, or is he just another innocent victim?

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Meet the Derbyshire pop-prog oddballs with bees in their bonnet – and their Jacuzzi

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NWOBHM veterans Saxon play us some favourite tunes on Inspirations

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Inglorious's difficult album number four We Will Ride is worth the trouble

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MOR prog project Downes Braide Association gets dewy-eyed for old England on Halcyon Hymns

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The madly eclectic studio output of prog pioneers Curved Air, all boxed up

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Not yet ratedMariusz Duda heads deep into the forest on seventh Lunatic Soul album

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Atlantis is the supremely crafted fourth studio album from rock classicists Cats In Space

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Black Stone Cherry say Goodbye to Kentucky and hello to radio-friendly rock on The Human Condition

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Unlucky Atlantans’ Sevendust remain defiant on thirteenth album Blood & Stone

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Fiftieth-anniversary five-LP/four-CD edition of Black Sabbath's Paranoid metal landmark, expanded with live recordings

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Not yet ratedTour spectacular boiled down to its musical essence

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Marmite's very own Nickelback revisit their mega-selling fifth album All The Right Reasons
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Peter Green’s Mac swansong stands proud as Fleetwood Mac's entire pre-Buckingham-Nicks era gets boxed on 1969 To 1974

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Graham Bonnet’s post-Rainbow project Alcatrazz resurfaces on Born Innocent after a long rebirth

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Americana veterans The Jayhawks triumph on committee-generated eleventh album XOXO

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Georgia sister act Larkin Poe come back stronger on fifth album Self Made Man

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Not yet ratedIt was the album that marked the end of one chapter and turned the prog icons into unlikely pop stars along the way. And now it gets the deluxe treatment it deserves.

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Country rocker Kip Moore's fourth album Wild World features few surprises but several big tunes

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Expanded reissue of 1990 Tent Of Miracles set from Randy California’s slimmed-down trio version of Spirit

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Desert rock elder statesman Brant Bjork returns with one-man band and self-titled album

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Not yet ratedIt’s like the Swedes have never been away. Because they haven’t.
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