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David Gilmour: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 31 May 2006

"LIKE SLEEPING with your ex-wife" was how David Gilmour dismissively described Pink Floyd's reunion for Live 8. Given that Gilmour has since insisted that his ...

Van Der Graaf Generator: Present

Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2005

ALTHOUGH CUSTOMARILY associated with prog, Van der Graaf Generator were always a world away from the ridiculous likes of Yes and Jethro Tull. ...

Alan White: Ramshackled (Atlantic) ***

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 28 February 1976

THIRD IN the series and I'll lay odds there's not going to be another Yes solo that sounds less like the parent band. ...

Robert Fripp: Do you want me to sell you an album…or a treatise on neg-entropy?

Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 21 March 1981

Robert Fripp lectures Lynden Barber ...

Supertramp On a Bum Trip

Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 15 May 1976

SUPERTRAMP HORNMAN and funnyman John Helliwell gazed longingly out the A&M Records publicity office window at the burgundy Dino Ferrari. ...

Genesis: The Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Andrew Tyler, NME, 10 August 1973

IT'S A LITTLE dishonest using the same strokes to hammer Genesis as are periodically used against Yes. But there you go. Such is the nature ...

Van Der Graaf Generator: In Prog They Trust

Retrospective and Interview by Robin Eggar, The Sunday Times, 29 May 2005

Van Der Graaf Generator are back – albeit after an excessive pause. Never mind the length, feel the quality, says ROBIN EGGAR. ...

Genesis: No "Pale" Imitation

Profile and Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, March 1974

Genesis combines surreal songwriting with an interesting instrumental and visual approach. Lead singer Peter Gabriel notes: "We all took courses in pretentiousness." ...

Jello Biafra, Peter Hammill: Peter Hammill and Jello Biafra: Prog vs. Punk – Who Won?

Interview by Jim Irvin, The Word, March 2011

One was uncool but enduring, the other hip but short-lived. Two pioneers, Peter Hammill and Jello Biafra, fight their respective corners. ...

Focus: Hardrock, Manchester

Live Review by Tony Stewart, NME, 13 January 1973

ALTHOUGH OUR entry into the European Economic Community is being saluted with umpteen art forms and rock concerts in the capital, perhaps the greatest – ...

Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains: Pink Floyd at the Victoria & Albert Museum

Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, July 2017

AT THE START of the V&A's Pink Floyd exhibition there is a photograph of the first ever van that transported the four-man group and their ...

Genesis: Caught by Surprise!

Interview by Jim Farber, Circus, 5 January 1978

Seconds Out Captures Genesis' Spectacular US tour ...

Focus: "People think we're a rock band, but we laugh about it"

Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 3 February 1973

VAL MABBS undertakes a concentrated interview with unlikely hit-makers, the classicly-orientated Focus. ...

Genesis Doing The Foxtrot

Report and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 9 September 1972

PETER GABRIEL – slightly eccentric or acute schizophrenic? He cycles to Island Studios to begin a day's work on the new Genesis album, and unpacks ...

King Crimson: Fripp Finds the Answer

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 27 May 1972

...in White magic, coloured candles and a witch called Walli Emlark ...

Marillion: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Water

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 28 April 1984

Along comes megajaws FISH, big fry with heavy rockers Marillion in search off "a clash off the titans"...in other words, a confrontation with NME. Shy, ...

Robert Fripp, King Crimson: King Crimson: Robert Fripp's Chocolate Cake Discipline

Interview by Richard Grabel, Creem, February 1982

In The Court Of The Crimson King, Phase II ...

Yes Battles The Skeptics With Relayer

Profile and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1975

Stabilized by their Swiss replacement for the seemingly indispensible Rick Wakeman, a nervy Yes have cracked into yet another album of epic proportions. Will Relayer ...

Yes, prog rock makes a comeback

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 17 September 2017

THEY'RE NOT called Yes. ...

Peter Hammill

Retrospective and Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, March 2007

"I DIDN'T HAVE white tunnels, but I did have the feeling that if I got too tired, which at a certain point might have been ...