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“A guy said, ‘You ruined a classic song.’ Another said, ‘He wrote it!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident
The keyboard legend’s jam-packed career saw interactions with a varied cast from the ‘strange’ Dario Argento to Motörhead’s Lemmy
How Avenged Sevenfold aimed for discombobulation with Life Is But A Dream…
M Shadows explains how, after rejecting pressure to be the next Metallica, they embraced their prog tendencies more than ever before on their most recent album to date
Rush before Geddy Lee: Meet Jeff Jones, the bass player who stepped aside
"As far as I remember, I was always there" - original Rush bassist Jeff Jones puts the story straight
“He was wandering off, not wanting to be a star”: The beginning of the end for Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett
1968 single will always be significant in their history – but not all for the best reasons
“Roger Waters had us trapped in limbo. I was putting my toe in the water”: David Gilmour’s solo career
Despite saying it’s less complicated to work alone, his association with Pink Floyd means he never wandered far, or for long, from the band
Crown Lands aim to harness Rush, Yes and geek power to fight radicalisation
Star Wars, Star Trek and Lord Of The Rings are among the epic inspirations behind latest album Apocalypse, which offers hope to those feeling end-of-days dread
When Mike Portnoy performed his Dream Theater 12-Step Suite – without Dream Theater
Drummer was around half-way through his separation from the band he’d co-founded when his 50th birthday came up, and he decided to assemble the songs inspired by his fight against alcoholism
“There are things I won’t be able to do forever, such as singing Over My Head”: King’s X and Three Sides Of One
After a gap of 15 years Texan heavy prog rockers King's X delighted fans by releasing their 13th studio album in 2022
“Some men and women felt threatened by a woman appearing nude”: Hawkwind ex Stacia Blake’s life in art
She busts myths about where she came from, how she joined and how she felt about Lemmy – but won’t discuss her departure from the space rock icons
Cool new prog from Haken, Stick Men, Happy The Man, Enslaved and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
Great new prog you must hear from Susanna, Playgrounded, REZN and more in our all new Tracks Of The Week
How Blood And Thunder turned Mastodon from Southern misfits to 21st-century metal stars
Making a snarling concept piece about Moby-Dick doesn’t sound like a move for mainstream appeal, but that’s exactly what Mastodon found
It's 10 years since Radiohead last released an album and I accidentally got the only interview for it
How a night on the tiles in Paris with Radiohead in 2016 turned into something more special
How Rick Wakeman proved everyone wrong with The Six Wives of Henry VIII
His 1973 debut solo album was roundly hated by label bosses and reviewers – but it became a coffee-table classic and gave him freedom from Yes
Why Roger Hodgson’s most ambitious Supertramp song still gives him goosebumps
Fool’s Overture, from 1977’s Even In The Quietest Moments, came together after a few years of stewing. It still takes its writer on a journey when he hears it
Pink Floyd’s fight over Comfortably Numb’s inclusion on The Wall was a key moment in their history
How the band changed dramatically between their first two shows at Earls Court in 1973 and their five-night return in 1981
Why the happy, positive Bruce Soord writes sad, melancholy solo albums
Ghosts In The Park contains songs he’d never take to The Pineapple Thief, or talk about in coffee shops. He explains how he found the collection of stories in hotel rooms
Devin Townsend feels like it took a 10-year dump to deliver The Moth
After pushing through a gruelling period of self-analysis, he reflects on not being allowed to express emotions, feeling abandoned, not crying in front of dogs – and what’s coming next
