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Few musicians of Mike Batt’s vintage are still pushing creative boundaries with the same fervour that defined their

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Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett discusses his new live album The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal

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What do you get when you mix a band of power pop visionaries into the jaws of crooked

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Al Jardine reflects on the life and legacy of Brian Wilson and his own musical path. In the

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Dylan Jones has long been one of British journalism’s more discerning cultural archaeologists, whether digging into David Bowie’s

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Don Powell revisits the defining moments of Slade’s rise, from their rough-edged Black Country beginnings and Chas Chandler’s

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Once dismissed as maudlin hitmakers and later scapegoated for the death of disco, the Bee Gees were always

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Jack Bruce was never just the bass player, he was Cream’s secret weapon: the rare musician who could

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Still blooming after all these years, Daryl Hooper, organ grinder-in-chief and musical engine of The Seeds, proves that

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Mike McCartney never meant to form a pop group, he was too busy cutting hair and cutting up

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Kate Bush’s Never for Ever album didn’t just mark her ascendancy, it broadcasted her metamorphosis into a true

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David Freiberg, has a résumé that reads like a syllabus in West Coast rock history. In this podcast,

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John Corabi has spent decades stitching together a career from heart, with a voice weathered by years on

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Derek Shulman and John Weathers never looked back, and maybe that’s why Gentle Giant’s music still stares you

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Jon King reflects on his memoir, To Hell with Poverty, and the tumultuous birth of Gang of Four.

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The Primitives crashed into pop history with their 1988 anthem, and four decades later, Paul Court and Tracy

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Wolfgang Flür, Kraftwerk’s rhythm architect back when their beats still had human fingerprints, revisits his journey from sticks

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Ashley Hutchings, the man who helped to write the British folk-rock playbook, hits 80, and instead of slowing

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Over decades in rock promotion, Paul Rappaport was both a champion and a confidant to artists, witnessing their

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