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Fruupp vocalist, flautist and bassist Peter Farrelly has died, aged 76

Peter Farrelly fronted Northern Ireland proggers Fruupp throughout their six-year tenure in the 1970s

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"It's got the filthiest tenor saxophone solo ever." Blur guitarist Graham Coxon reveals the prog rock song that changed his life

Blur guitarist Graham Coxon was a progressive rock fan as a teenager, and one song in particular captured his imagination

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The Pineapple Thief and TesseracT to headline this year's Be Prog! My Friend festival in Barcelona

Be Prog ! My Friend takes place on September 27 and 28 and will also feature The Dear Hunter, Threshold, Von Hertzen Brothers and more...

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“Once you realise your existence is futile and life is a random gift, you think, ‘I’m going to make the most of it.’ Life is meaningless – so embrace it”: Steven Wilson looks back at Planet Earth

His challenging return-to-prog album The Overview contrasts the collapse of a nebula with a bursting grocery bag in Swindon, all to illustrate that space is “nothingness; it’s scary; it’s death”

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“Nothing overshadows the totality of the concept… The Overview is very prog indeed”: Steven Wilson fully embraces the genre again, in a modern manner that will attract new listeners

With the occasional nod to his greatest achievements, his exploration of the cosmos is at times a challenging, daunting experience – but it’s rewarding

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"We tend to write very emotive music – you could say emotive rock." How Panic Room discovered themselves with Incarnate

The story of UK prog quintet Panic Room's fourth album, 2014's Incarnate

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“I heard it in a hip-hop song and thought, ‘No way did Nas write that!’” How Wendy James fell in love with an Iron Butterfly track she’d never be drunk enough to write

Won over by the psych-prog outfit, ex Transvision Vamp singer used a clip from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in one of her own songs

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Cool new proggy sounds from Nad Sylvan, Bjørn Riis, McStine & Minnemann and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Ace new prog you must hear from Glass Hammer, Ash Twin Project, Whimsical Creature and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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“On a frenetic album about consumerism and masturbation, you need your moments of contrast to count": The 10 best Genesis songs, as chosen by Prog readers

Over 28 years the genre giants released 15 albums, achieving over 100 million sales. It’s unfair to boil their work down to just a handful of key songs – but you did it anyway

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Jethro Tull grace the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, which is on sale now!

Plus Kevin Godley, Ghost Of The Machine, Mike Ratledge, Can, Cardiacs, Amplifier, Karmakanic, Envy Of None and more...

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“We always wanted to celebrate this album, and to end our live shows at an iconic venue is the perfect way to finish”: 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

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“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

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The Flower Kings announce new album and a European tour with Neal Morse & The Resonance

Swedish prog rockers The Flower Kings will release their latest album LOVE in May

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“It’s such a good party trick – ‘So you think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!’” Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson argues King Crimson are the 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

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“It seemed to me that America was ruled by the gun… if you don’t like the President, shoot him”: 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

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“ELO, Judas Priest, my dad’s piano playing – that’s prog!” Tennis hero Pat Cash discovered Saga in Steve Harris’ private pub, introduced Tony Iommi to Bigelf and got Robert Plant to take up his sport

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

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“Want to scare people these days? Forget about Satan and drugs. Bring on the evolutionary biologist”: Nightwish were accused of seeking to shock by working with Richard Dawkins. Instead they explored the poetry of science

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

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“It was awkward – Yes sort of told me never to come back”: Oliver Wakeman had to tour with the prog progenitors while knowing he’d been replaced. Surprisingly, he genuinely enjoyed the trip

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

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“The busker in my high street is terrible! He never gets any better. I had this idea: he doesn’t realise he’s dead and carries on”: Steven Wilson’s desperate 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

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“A fan said the teaser was 36 seconds long and already better than The Astonishing… another said they already knew they wouldn’t buy it. You’ve got to love that stuff”: When Dream Theater slimmed down for Distance Over Time

The prog metal giants’ sleek, super-powerful 14th album was a conscious move away from its complex, opinion-splitting predecessor

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“I don’t believe I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick. They even said I had ruined the band”: Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans

Co-founding singer and keyboardist on his prog influences, hiring a shouting woman to conserve his voice, taking a rock-is-dead approach to his final solo albums – and why he doesn’t care if he isn’t remembered

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“The facts don’t matter. Whoever has the better story wins!” When Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown, Rush and others got in trouble with the law, the results were remarkably prog

Never mind the usual drink and drug offences… quirky, eccentric incidents seem to surround some of those who make music the same way

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“I’ve always wanted to be in a metal band… Pantera and Dream Theater are great”: Carl Palmer on his desire for a life beyond classic prog, the final ELP show, and why he wishes they’d had a guitarist

After Emerson Lake & Palmer’s High Voltage concert, the drummer shared his thoughts on his former bandmates and pondered an unfulfilled ambition

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“Things come more difficult to him than to anyone I’ve ever met…he doesn’t con himself into thinking he knows what he’s doing”: Peter Gabriel, in the words of his collaborators and admirers

Robert Fripp, Ian Anderson, Steven Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Mike Portnoy, Tom Morello, Trevor Rabin and many others share their thoughts on the Progfather

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“Amid the turmoil over the increased use of synths, there’s a perfect balance of both sides of their character”: 12 great Rush songs of the 80s

They ditched the kimonos for keyboards and pursued a new, modern sound that had fans bewitched and bewildered in equal measure. Here are some prime examples

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