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This 1969 album was a prog leap too far – and it wasn’t even by a prog band
Later regarded as a massively inspirational work, it was too demanding a prospect when American quartet made it
The story of the speed-freak anthem that was the most important song Lemmy ever wrote
A song written by the young Lemmy for Hawkwind has been through various twists - from Motörhead's own anthemic version to the unlikeliest remakes
Steve Vai on the wild genius of Frank Zappa – and the two words that made him want to join his band
They say never meet your heroes – Steve Vai would disagree
Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti on the visionary extreme metal band who changed his life
You may not hear Tremonti favourites Celtic Frost in Creed and Alter Bridge’s music but they’re there
How Whitesnake made a cult R&B song their own – and got the blessing of the soul icon who wrote it
In 1978 Whitesnake turned a Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland chestnut into one of blues rock’s greatest anthems
After a crisis of confidence, the former frontman of one of prog’s greatest groups still doesn’t know who he is
Adopted soon after birth, his search for clues to his identity inspired a book which then inspired an album – and there’s a reason it’s not a completely prog work
Ghost’s Tobias Forge on the anthem that turned his band from cult sensations into bona fide stars
Square Hammer opened Ghost’s 2016’s Popestar EP and cracked US radio for the Swedish occultists
How yodelling Dutch prog weirdos Focus made the strangest hit single of 1973
It featured the greatest yodelling since The Sound Of Music
