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“I never thought his music would be my bag. But he never plays the same thing twice and your mind is blown”: The Pretenders’ James Walbourne on discovering Richard Thompson (who happens to be his father-in-law)

Walbourne details the folk-prog veteran’s Robert Johnson-like magic, and draws a comparison with Chrissie Hynde

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Derek And The Dominos keyboard player Bobby Whitlock dead at 77

He played with Eric Clapton and George Harrison

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“There was a very unpleasant atmosphere between all of us. George Martin said he’d do another album… Instead we drove the band off the cliff”: How Stackridge conspired to swerve the success they deserved

The quirky West Country prog group started to get somewhere with 1973’s The Man In The Bowler Hat. Guitarist/vocalist James Warren – later of The Korgis – accepts youth and inexperience caused their implosion at exactly the wrong moment

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“I thought to myself that regardless of how long I have to live after this illness, I would spend it with my old band”: In praise of Nektar, the cult prog band who inspired Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris

Nektar are the prog connoisseur’s 70s prog band

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“Miles Davis is the scariest individual I’ve ever met. He makes Lou Reed look like a pussycat”: Steven Van Zandt’s wild tales of Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Miles Davis

One blues icon pulled a gun on the E Street Band guitarist

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“Any package shining further light on the their singular brilliance is to be welcomed”: Be-Bop Deluxe’s The Albums – 1974-1976

Bill Nelson’s finest hours are revisited again in clamshell set, but the journey is always rewarding

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"We hit the trees at what seemed like 100 miles an hour": The story of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the plane that fell from the sky

Fist fights, premonitions and a flight into hell: This is the tale of Ronnie Van Zant and Lynyrd Skynyrd

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“Astonishing and formidable music”: there’s more to British jazz rock than Soft Machine, Brand X, Bruford and Nucleus

Here are six underrated and overlooked albums from the 1970s that will reward investigation

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"This is the moment to rediscover Chicago": Greatest Hits Expanded charts the band's evolution from a jazz-soul-psychedelic-brassy-hippy melange into accomplished balladeers

The bonkers and the ballads

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"A surprisingly vibrant, bright-side kind of album": The Black Keys sound euphoric on the dreamy 60s psych-soul sound of No Rain, No Flowers

Beleaguered retro rockers the Black Keys sprout fresh, soulful intent on thirteenth studio album No Rain, No Flowers

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King Crimson affiliates Beat release live video for classic Frame By Frame

Starring Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Danny Carey, Frame By Frame comes from the upcoming album Beat Live, out next month

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The nine best artists to see at London's All Points East festival this month, from Doechii and Confidence Man, to Warmduscher and Chloe Qisha

All Points East festival returns to east London's Victoria Park this month, and, as usual, there's lots to get excited about across the coming weekends

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Steven Wilson launches new prog rock radio show on SiriusXM

Intrigue: The Progressive Rock Show With Steven Wilson will air monthly on the satellite radio and online streaming service SiriusXM

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“Inventive, unconventional approach sets them apart from lazy assumptions of what prog was doing in the early 70s”: Jethro Tull’s Still Living In The Past

Reissue series revives the 1972 high-class hodgepodge in a generous, never perfunctory style

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"The album is packed with arena-sized intensity": Halestorm finally scale rock's summit on Everest

US hard rockers Halestorm bring on-stage ferocity into the recording studio

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"Lyrically and the way he sang and played, he meant everything he did": This is the soundtrack of Orianthi's life

Guitarist/singer/songwriter Orianthi picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the superstar she had to turn down

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New reissue of The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot to be released in October

The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot is to be reissued on CD, vinyl and as a five-disc limited edition Super Deluxe box set

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The Pogues announce expanded 40th anniversary edition of their classic 1985 album Rum Sodomy & The Lash

Rum Sodomy & The Lash is getting another lash

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"A high point in the FZ catalogue!" Frank Zappa's One Size Fits All gets lavish 50th anniversary reissue

Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention's 1975 album One Size Fits All has been resized, reupholstered and remastered for its 50th anniversary

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"We had an artistic success, but not a financial one… but that’s another story.” Peter Gabriel's 1982 WOMAD set to be released this Friday

Peter Gabriel's live set from the very first WOMAD Festival in 1982, featuring material from the then-unreleased Peter Gabriel 4 album, is released digitally this Friday

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“It’s a team of terrifying quality – but the result is no face-melting noodle-fest. Everything stems from musical ideas”: Gavin Harrison and Nick Johnston’s Early Mercy

King Crimson and Porcupine Tree drummer and new Mastodon guitarist deliver strange, beautiful music with help from Allan Holdsworth bassist Evan Marien

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“It wasn’t pure hatred all the time”: Pink Floyd’s The Wall movie and its feuds, falling-outs and friction

Bob Geldof ruthlessly baited Roger Waters, Gerald Scarfe feared he’d created a new skinhead movement and the media hated the morbidity – but the third part of the multimedia trilogy was a triumph

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"It just sort of happened": Meet the men who prompted R.E.M. to reunite

Actor Michael Shannon and musician Jason Narducy are currently on the road celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.'s 1985 album, Fables of the Reconstruction

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"What matters is that we get the message to younger generations": H.E.A.T's Kenny Leckremo on the state of rock and why Swedes write songs in the dark

Kenny Leckremo talks Erik Grönwall, big hair, ice hockey and the brilliance of cheese

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"He catapulted me into an intense new world he chose to decline": Robert Plant pays tribute to Terry Reid

Robert Plant celebrates the music of Terry Reid, the man who recommended him to Jimmy Page

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