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Marillion’s Pete Trewavas on the storms, earthquakes and blizzard that birthed the third Edison’s Children album
Assisted by a lunar astronaut’s son and a Hollywood special effects creator, 2019’s The Disturbance Fields defined the band’s mission to save this world, and others
The unbelievable story of Chicago, the soft rock kings with steel in their hearts
Jazz-rock experimentalists, money-spinning soft rock kings, derided balladeers? The mighty Chicago have been all of these and more
Prog paradigm-changers Greenslade were warned two keyboardists and no guitarist would fail. They didn’t listen
When the late Dave Greenslade left Colosseum, he had a handful of unfinished songs which launched a short but inspiring run at the dawn of the synth era
Rush’s Neil Peart, an exploding golf ball and two career-changing conversations
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall their late friend and bandmate, recalling what he brought to the band and how they began to move on without him
All the songs Rush have never played live… yet
Rush have recorded 167 original songs. They’ve never played 42 of them. Could that change on the Fifty Something tour?
Praised by half the Beatles, Rick Wakeman and Pat Metheny, Rod Argent still didn’t have it all easy
Founding member of The Zombies and Argent had no trouble writing songs that have endured for decades, and easily collaborated with Phil Collins, The Who and many others. But he also encountered his share of troubles in the music industry
“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes, and how it led to 90125
Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart
“They’ve had a lesser impact due to their complexity”: No-Man’s Tim Bowness on Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson
They collaborated on Bowness’ 2017 album Lost In The Ghost Light, but his appreciation for the rock flute icon goes back to Tull’s early trilogies
The “really evil” bandleader who was more challenging than Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp
Despite a huge range of experience, bassist easily identifies the person he found most difficult to work with
Top new proggy sounds from Haken, Polyphia, A-Tota-So and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
Cool new prog you must hear fromRodrigo Y Gabriela, If These Trees Could Talk, Redshift and more in all new Tracks Of The Week
Rick Wakeman: Jon Lord inspired me, made me laugh, and he was a true progger at heart
Deep Purple icon, who inspired Yes counterpart to remake Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, had a wicked sense of humour and was a true progger at heart
“Five minutes is a great length for a song”: Yes keep things tight on new album Aurora
Guitarist Steve Howe discusses their unplanned three-record run, speculates on what’s left for the future, and explains why he’s still bothering with the current line-up
The prog band who made A-ha’s Morten Harket into a musician
Norwegian pop singer remains impressed by his British heroes’ songwriting, which made him feel like he’d come home when he first listened
Before Cardiacs’ Mike Vennart was in Cardiacs, he loved Cardiacs – who he discovered by accident
He enthused emphatically about the late Tim Smith’s work a decade before recording vocals for the undefinable band’s long-unfinished album LSD
Toto, “that Africa band,” on their prog credentials
They were inspired by prog heavyweights and their records have always contained surprising depth
How Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into landmark prog metal song Welcome Home
Thanks to its venomous lyrics and hard, screeching riff, the 2005 single became a Platinum-selling breakthrough moment
Did Muse’s Matt Bellamy really earn his guitar smashing world record?
Ambitious from the start, the conspiracy-theory obsessives were always going to have to move on from their early days of excess. This is how they did it
