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Krautrock icons Can and their brief interlude as British pop stars
By Malcolm Dome published
Their one-off exploration of disco-pop, I Want More, featured lyrics written by a roadie and gave them a Top 30 hit in the UK. They took the short-term clamour in their stride

"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview
By Jerry Ewing published
On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did

Joseph Arthur’s first acid trip turned him on to the majesty of Rush
By Jo Kendall published
In an incident he doesn’t recommend emulating, the singer-songwriter’s appreciation for the Canadian giants was cemented – but that’s only one of four reasons he loves them

The Pink Floyd songs that influenced final Pink Floyd album The Endless River
By Daryl Easlea published
The biggest influence on The Endless River? Pink Floyd themselves. Here are the sounds from the band’s past that informed their 2014 release

Wang Chung’s Jack Hues reinvented himself by revisiting Robert Wyatt, Radiohead and Talk Talk
By Jo Kendall published
Decades after playing to 80,000 people a night with Wang Chung, the Canterbury artist went wild on Epigonal Quark, with help from Syd Arthur and others

Cool new proggy sounds from Jo Quail, Steeleye Span, Chimpan A and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
By Jerry Ewing published
Great new prog you must hear from Between The Buried And Me, The Vintage Caravan, Aisles and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Sky covered Bach’s Tocatta on Top Of The Pops… is it the least likely musical moment ever?
By Malcolm Dome published
What happened when five serious musicians became pop stars of sorts for 11 weeks in 1980

Why Liv Kristine had to cover Mike Oldfield
By Natasha Scharf published
Former Leaves’ Eyes vocalist admits she pretended to be Maggie Reilly, with a hairbrush for a microphone

When Haken doubled down on ambition with Virus
By Phil Weller published
Secretly the second part of previous album Vector, their 2020 release featured more collaborative writing, more influences, and revealed more details about their Cockroach King character

"For six years he was their leader”: Rush movie makers couldn’t leave John Rutsey out
By Prog published
2010’s Beyond The Lighted Stage was a triumph for Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen, who learned the secret of their fellow Canadians’ success as they shot the documentary

Novelists’ Florestan Durand is passionate about Periphery (or at least their early albums)
By Natasha Scharf published
Misha Mansoor’s work was the catalyst for Durand’s discovery of djent, as he moved on from the “simpler music” of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani

How Mark Wilkinson’s artistic genius helped define Marillion’s image
By Dom Lawson published
With the Market Square Heroes sleeve acting as a successful audition, his partnership with the neo-prog icons meant he joined them in being free to create whatever art they wanted to

When Julian Cope entered the prog-pop world of Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators and Love
By Ben Myers published
After leaving The Teardrop Explodes, he was on a mission – but on seeing him wearing nothing but a turtle shell on the cover of Fried, the world needed some convincing

Mark King saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra on colour TV and a fashion crime followed
By Paul Sexton published
The future bandleader wasn’t even a bassist when John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer and co burst into his young life on the Isle of Wight

When John Lodge accepted there’d be no more Moody Blues music
By Malcolm Dome published
Bassist, vocalist, songwriter and proud Brummie on tempering his solo plans because the band came first, why a memoir wasn’t on his list, and knowing very well that a light year is a measure of distance

Camel and a tale of two visits to the Royal Albert Hall, 43 years apart
By Malcolm Dome published
Unruly brass musicians, unrecordable horns, a runaway film crew and the surprise appearance of female fans… Andrew Latimer recalls the profile-boosting 1975 concert and morale-securing 2018 return

Colin Moulding on meeting Chris Squire at the worst moment, and declining to join Pink Floyd
By Jo Kendall published
Jethro Tull and Atomic Rooster endured a difficult return from the breakup with Andy Partridge, but it led to a happy reunion with drummer Terry Chambers

“I’m quite allergic to people who talk too much!" How John Mitchell brought Lonely Robot back down to earth with Feelings Are Good
By Alison Reijman published
The spacesuit is now stowed away as Lonely Robot embark on a completely different kind of musical voyage with 2020's fourth album Feelins Are Good

Remembering Kansas’ Robby Steinhardt, one of the most important Americans in prog
By Malcolm Dome published
He didn’t write many songs and he admitted the way he played on stage was detrimental to his performance. But the violinist and vocalist was the link between the band’s music and their success
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