Chris Roberts

Gary Brooker called it modern blues – but however you tag it, the proto-prog follow-up to blockbuster single A Whiter Shade Of Pale was everything he’d wanted it to be, almost

In 2011, Blondie’s Debbie Harry sat down with Classic Rock to look back over her stellar career

There are hints throughout the band’s catalogue, but cult album I Trawl The Megahertz, built from quotes found in broadcast media, is Exhibit A in the prog case

Making the most of his freedom from the mainstream music industry, the 75-year-old Be Bop Deluxe mastermind says his health issues are making him work faster, not slower

Peter Gabriel on his favourite films, how his dad invented on-demand TV, and the space adventure that nearly was

Signed around the same time as the Sex Pistols after David Gilmour mentored the 16-year-old’s “remarkable talent,” a durable paradox emerged

The story behind T. Rex’s The Slider and underrated follow-up Tanx – two albums that sealed Marc Bolan as the king of glam rock

Lou Reed's body of work grew from uncertain beginnings through a prolific and wildly diverse 70s surge and a late 80s revival

Drugs, madness and an ex-Beatle – the crazed story of David Bowie’s 1975 album Young Americans

Punk rock, flying fruit and rollerskating accidents – how Yes went from triumph to disaster at the end of the 1970s

Replacing Jon Anderson and Rick Wakemen with Buggles duo Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes was controversial – but it resulted in one of their most underrated albums, Drama

Rick Wakeman was out, new boy Patrick Moraz was in, and Yes were about to make their most underrated album of the 70s

Guitarist aimed “to be useful” in a band he believed had something to say

From the moment they started taking themselves seriously, the trio were convinced success would come their way – even as they became more out-there and ludicrous