Daryl Easlea

Keyboard icon looks back on his classical albums, recently assembled in a box set, recalls being knocked off the No. 1 spot by gardener Alan Titchmarsh – and remembers offering Peter Gabriel a new gig

1974’s ambitious double-album took a heavy toll on the people who worked on it – then its lukewarm reception and bewildering stage show made things even more tense

By the time they’d toured their 1973 album, they’d had a sit single, proved Phil Collins could deliver lead vocals, and offered a hint at what would come after Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel left

…and two of them occur before a single note is heard of the band’s 1975 classic

Peter Hammill remembers trimming down the music and the name to spend 18 months in a ferocious punk-tinged endgame that resulted in stunning live album Vital

Pink Floyd and Saucerful of Secrets bassist hails his friend and counterpart for inspired work with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and much more

Rick Wakeman recalls quitting with Jon Anderson, Steve Howe recalls hoping they’d return, and Trevor Horn recalls being dragged into the line-up that bounced back in 1980

Illness, heartbreak and stage fright may have led some to think of him as an also-ran – but under the radar he’s much, much more than the “ex-genius” people thought they read on a poster

A No.3 single in 1985, the song topped the charts in 2022 after appearing in Stranger Things – and the planet seemed to go Kate crazy

When the band released a 27-disc box set focusing on their formative days, it offered the chance to reassess their film soundtracks of that era – including two ‘widow albums’

Car, Scratch, Melt and Security log the incredible distance he covered between leaving Genesis and creating So

In 1986 Peter Gabriel released his fifth studio album So. It was a huge international hit. This is how it happened

He’d recorded Tubular Bells with substandard instruments but later Richard Branson personally delivered a world-class studio to his cottage. It still took Oldfield over 40 years to make sense of his original vision

The inside story of Pink Floyd's first new original music since 1994’s The Division Bell in aid of Ukraine

Set against the backdrop of the Falklands Conflict, the band’s last album with Waters came together while their break-up was on the horizon

Genesis co-founder’s ‘hobby band’ Mike + The Mechanics had no grand plan – but made an impact anyway

Despite saying it’s less complicated to work alone, David Gilmour’s association with Pink Floyd means he never wandered far, or for long, from the band

One reviewer claimed it made Yes and Pink Floyd redundant, but was their last album with Steve Hackett also their final truly progressive work?