Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to King Crimson, ELP and Roxy Music
Lyricist, art director, producer and all-round creative who aimed to enlighten, provoke or stir died in November 2024 without being fully aware of what he’d achieved
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After an epic-length search for lost tapes, Clannad passed into Legend alongside Robin Hood
The Irish band’s award-winning work on cult 80s TV show Robin Of Sherwood transformed how music was used in small-screen productions. Amid flashbacks to overwork and lightning-speed inspiration, they bowed out at the Albert Hall with the release of Legend Extended
A Farewell to Kings - Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back on 50 years of Rush
We sat down with Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson at the end of 2024 to speak about their 50-year journey from there to here - and what might happen next
“We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland
He once gatecrashed Chris Squire’s dressing room because he knew nothing about concerts. Later, when his own band were at their proggiest, he took everything he could out of opening on Yes’ Relayer tour of 1974
“Think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!” Ivar Bjørnson’s gateway from metal to prog
Norwegian multi-instrumentalist explains what the genres have in common, buying a synth just to learn one Pink Floyd song, and discovering musical airplane engines via his wife
The tortured tale of how Radiohead made The Bends
The Oxford quintet’s era-defining second record turns 30 this month. Here’s the story of how it came together.
Great new prog you must hear from Cosmograf, O.R.k., Jenny Hval and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Great new proggy sounds from Oak, Panzerballett, Lumens and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
Flag-burning prog innovators The Nice found trouble on stage and off it
Keith Emerson, Davy O’List and Lee Jackson created enough controversy to last for decades in their original three-year run
Marillion look back on the making of the album that tore the band apart
Fish, Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly look back at the making of Marillion's best-known and most successful record, Misplaced Childhood
“ELO, Judas Priest, my dad’s piano playing – that’s prog!” Pat Cash’s record collection
Travelling the world with his Walkman, the young Australian moved on from his family’s opera and folk to Rush, Steven Wilson, Brian Eno, Francis Dunnery and Anathema, and adopted his chequered headband in honour of Cheap Trick
“Forget Satan – bring on the biologist”: Nightwish’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Endless Forms Most Beautiful started with a handwritten letter and resulted in an extraordinary, inspiring concept album – plus the professor’s first-ever prog performance at Wembley Arena
“Yes told me never to come back”: How Oliver Wakeman joined and left his dad’s former band
If Rick Wakeman’s son had taken an angrier attitude to being fired in 2011, their 2019 mini-album From A Page might never have been rescued from the demo stacks
Every Pink Floyd album ranked from worst to best
Updated Pink Floyd's journey from underground pioneers to stadium-filling superstars saw them release albums that ranged from woeful to wonderful
How Steven Wilson’s desire to believe in ghosts inspired his last fully prog album
2013’s The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) was a collection of ghost stories in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, MR James and spooky 70s kids’ TV. He explained each track in his own words
“That half-minute is probably our peak”: How Genesis made Supper’s Ready
The band believe it’s the moment they began to become significant – and the construction of the 23-minute anthem for 1972’s Foxtrot was itself an epic experience
Dream Theater were drained after The Astonishing, but wrote Distance Over Time in three weeks
The prog metal giants’ sleek, super-powerful 14th album was a conscious move away from its complex, opinion-splitting predecessor
Great new prog you must hear from Karmakanic, Earthside, Bjørn Riis and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Fab new proggy sounds from Andre Drage, Derev, Dave Francis and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
How Rush and Pink Floyd led James Dean Bradfield to Man – a band he’d previously dismissed
Manic Street Preachers frontman wasn’t convinced by his fellow Welsh musicians, until he discovered the Steely Dan and Little Feat elements of their 11th album
"It’s timeless. It was always in its own world; it didn’t fit into any category.” Tangerine Dream and the story of Phaedra
Did you know that Pink Floyd and Emerson Lake & Palmer were both instrumental in the creation of Tangerine Dream's fifth album Phaedra? Read on...
