“How could Syd Barrett find being in the back of a van with the lads interesting, when his head was out there? You’re working all the time in your head”: The prog credentials of Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon

Prefab Sprout.

You may remember them for their 80s indie pop days, but the innovative, genre-leaping ideas of their leader Paddy McAloon are extraordinary, particularly with 2003 cult legend I Trawl The Megahertz. In 2019 we asked the question: how prog are Prefab Sprout?

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