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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 22, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from A Thousand Horses, Mirador, The Sheepdogs and more
“I’ve done Genesis longer than Peter Gabriel!” Nad Sylvan is being more himself than ever
Best known for his12 years with Steve Hackett, the US-born Swede explores his own life and times at last. And is that a Pink Floyd reference as sings about being frontman and sideman in someone else’s project?
Marillion and Tangerine Dream men took six years over an album that sounds like neither band
Their Bioscope debut arrived after the pair took advice from Steven Wilson, spent a week every winter exploring sounds and ideas, and borrowed Elbow’s drummer to fulfil their instrumental cinematic vision
How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics
It was written on a $25 guitar and became one of the biggest hits of 1994
“It’s 50 per cent music, 50 per cent hair”: Sparks’ commitment to silliness is very prog
Ron Mael (the operatic one) and Russell Mael (the staring one) never discussed being different; but as LA brothers inspired by British prog and glam, they always were. They only rule they made was: “Shake up the universe”
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on the cult prog rock mavericks who inspired him – but were too out there to be successful
They played a gig at Bruce Dickinson’s school when he was 15 years old
The flop single that became a power-pop classic thanks to one of the greatest live albums of the 70s
It finally launched the career of one of rock’s greatest bands
The song that saved U2 when it looked like they were on a downward spiral
How one of the Irish rockers’ biggest hits got them back on track after a patchy period
