“I was shocked when I found out Demis Roussos was in the band. I had to convince a friend that it was really him”: Maxine Peake’s prog adventures with Aphrodite’s Child, Gong, Hawkwind and mushrooms

Maxine Peake.

Maxine Peake made her name in TV shows Dinnerladies, Shameless and Silk. The award-winning actress has also appeared in Black Mirror, See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Say Nothing. In 2012 she told Prog how she’d discovered Aphrodite’s Child, Gong, Hawkwind and others, and what she’d learned from watching prog performances.

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