Latest articles by Philip Wilding
Marillion were facing oblivion. Then they made This Strange Engine and found a way forward
They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong
How Fish escaped his Marillion train wreck and scored a Top 5 album
On the cusp of retirement, the singer looks back on how the 1988 split came about, how it could have been avoided, and how his debut solo record Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors rose from the ashes
Acoustic Sessions might make you miss Phil Lynott, but a ‘new’ Thin Lizzy album? We should be so lucky
Acoustic Sessions features original vocal parts from Lynott paired with brand-new pieces from founding guitarist Eric Bell
"We had turned into grotesque prog creatures" How Rush reinvented themselves
After the "soul-crushing" slog of Hemispheres, Permanent Waves returned Rush to the peak of their powers and put them in a different league
Jesse Malin on the spinal stroke that left him paralysed from the waist down and the long road to recovery
One spring day in 2023, Jesse Malin suddenly fell to the floor, and his life effectively fell apart
A personal tribute to Neil Peart
A personal look back at the music, life and times of Neil Peart, the Rush drummer/lyricist and cornerstone who died on January 7, 2020
“His strident yet emotive voice is a remarkable legacy”: John Wetton’s Concentus live box set
Expansive 10-disc collection is the first of three charting decades of his onstage work
Beardfish sound like they’d never been away in Songs For Beating Hearts
First new music in almost nine years picks up where the acclaimed +4626-Comfortzone left off in 2015
Ginger Wildheart on friendship, the fans and the return of The Wildhearts
Two years on from their less than amicable split, The Wildhearts are back, re-energised, with a reconfigured line-up and live shows on the way
Beth Hart proves she's far more than a blues siren on You Still Got Me
Beth Hart delivers soul, swagger and Slash on album number eleven
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Long After Dark, perhaps as it was always meant to be
A remastered Tom Petty classic, with previously unreleased and extra tracks
Def Leppard's homecoming captured on the slick One Night Only Live at The Leadmill
Def Leppard’s spectacular homecoming show, now available on CD and DVD
"I've mastered what I was aiming for thirty years ago": Neil Peart - The Clockwork Angels interview
In 2012 Rush's drummer Neil Peart told us about modern alchemy, thinking big, how Nirvana influenced Rush, and why he'd never watch Beyond The Lighted Stage
Why you should definitely hear Love Junk by The Pursuit Of Happiness
Power-pop bristling with poignancy and pathos, Love Junk is packed full of enduring, impassioned classics
Rick Wakeman looks back over his career with the glittering, limited edition Yessonata
This Rick Wakeman medley reworks and reimagines some of his greatest moments
The Hot Damn! bring the party on the dazzling Dancing On The Milky Way
The soundtrack to the summer: glorious Technicolor power-pop-rock from The Hot Damn!
What went right for 10cc, what went wrong, and how they could have avoided it
Graham Gouldman explains why the art-rock icons believed in themselves so much, the album that best represents them, and why he’d never release new music using the band name
“An unlikely mix of people, a maverick approach to songs”: Jordan Rudess’ Permission To Fly
Dream Theater keyboardist hired former Enid singer Joe Payne and a cosmetic dentist to perform material around lyrics by his daughter
Neil Peart’s love, pain and thoughts on live performance before Rush bowed out
Drummer reflected on his favourite support act, the album he’d love to re-record, his approach to writing books and accepting he’d grown up as much as he ever would
Frank Zappa’s final print interview, including the 12 words he signed off with
In 1993 a future Prog writer landed a magazine interview with his hero – neither of them knowing it would his last
Marillion’s late-career hit single didn’t stop people asking Steve Hogarth about Fish
You’re Gone, from 2004 album Marbles, was their first Top 10 entry since 1987, and the track came about in a non-standard manner for the band
Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts shine on Rogue To Redemption
Former Biters frontman Tuk Smith delivers a power-pop/classic rock gem
The Chris Cornell albums you should definitely listen to
With Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple Of The Dog and solo, Chris Cornell proved to be a vocalist of singular talent. Here we round up his best albums
