Marcus Gray

Marcus Gray is the author of Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling, Last Gang in Town: The Story and Myth of the Clash, and It Crawled from the South: An R.E.M. Companion.

Latest articles by Marcus Gray

Third World War on stage
The explosive story of Third World War, the band who inspired The Who and influenced punk

By Marcus Gray Published

From John Lennon to The Who, The Faces, The Clash, Steve Albini and beyond, Third World War influenced many

Music
REM posing for a photograph in 1987
How distortion, chaos and a world gone mad shaped R.E.M.’s game-changing album Document album

By Marcus Gray Published

On 1987’s Document album, ‘the thinking person’s rock band’ ditched the jangling guitars for distortion, power chords and arena rock singles

Albums
Procol Harum in 1967
Procol Harum: The epic story of A Whiter Shade Of Pale

By Marcus Gray Published

More than half a century ago Procol Harum recorded the unlikeliest, best-selling, most bitterly-contested drug anthem of all time

Albums
The cast, crew and band members for Rick Wakeman's King Arthur on Ice stage show, Wembley Empire Pool, London, May 1975
The crazed story of rock's ultimate folly: Rick Wakeman and King Arthur... on ice

By Marcus Gray Published

The live version of Rick Wakeman's The Myths & Legends Of King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table was spectacular and chaotic. It also sent Wakeman’s career into a near-terminal nosedive

Bands & Artists
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Beyond The Pale

By Marcus Gray Published

40 years ago they skipped the light fandango, and turned cartwheels ’cross the floor... Procol Harum released A Whiter Shade Of Pale on May 12, 1967.

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