Rick Wakeman graces the front cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now

Prog 110
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It's Rick Wakeman on the front cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale today.

Rick discusses his upcoming album, the very proggy The Red Planet, how life has been treating him during lockdown and what really happened with Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and him in ARW. Plus. Rick claims his new album is 'Prog. With a capital P' (he's not wrong either!) so we've trawled through his impressive back catalogue - there's enough albums - to pick out the real prog rock gems.

Before we divulge what's in the rest of the issue, some information on how best to get a hold of your copy of Prog during the current Covid-19 crisis.

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Also in Prog 110...

Haken - the Uk prog metallers tell us all about new album Virus; the story of The Cockroach King

Fairport Convention - founding member Simon Nicoll look back at a career stretching over 50 years of melding folk, rock and prog and more 

Kansas - the US prog rockers are back with a great new album The Absence Of Presence

Robert Fripp - friends and colleagues lift the lid on what the mercurial King Crimson mainman is really like

Caravan - a look at how the Canterbury legends made their 1970 masterpiece In The Land Of Grey And Pink

Caligula's Horse - fast rising Australian prog rockers keep the momentum going with excellent new album Rise Radiant

Glass Hammer - the US proggers battle both adversity AND Covid-19 to get new album Dreaming City out to fans

The Lickerish Quartet - three quarters of Jellyfish reunite and create a wonderfully colourful sound

Coldbones - The UK post-rockers create great sounds with new album The Cataclysm

Three Colours Dark - former Karanataka members Rachel Cohen and Jonathan Edwards reunite

Prog's Most Influential Albums - not the greatest prog albums of all time maybe, but cedrtainly the ones that have had the most impact

Martin Grech - 18 years ago he exploded on the scene as a teenager. Now the mercurial musician is back with another stunning collection of sounds

Kavus Torabi - the Knifeworld and Gong frontman lives in a prog world full of King Crimson and Neil's Heavy Concept Album. Heavy maaan!

Plus album reviews from HakenTangerine DreamMoody BluesDevin TownsendAirbagNick D'VirgilioGoldrayKansasHedvig MollestadGandalf's FistPeter GabrielAA Williams and more...

And music from Chimpan ALazertuthGandalf's FistSuns Of The TundraLast Flight To Pluto and more on the free CD.

Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.