“The cape-wielding progressive rock behemoth was not in vogue… there was an effort to make it simpler, but our musical identity was still at stake”: Gentle Giant take a fresh look at The Missing Piece

Gentle Giant.

For many, it was Gentle Giant’s last truly great record – but The Missing Piece came out at a challenging time for progressive rock and didn’t get the recognition it perhaps deserved. With the arrival of Steven Wilson’s remix 47 years later, band members Gary Green, John Weathers and Kerry Minnear take Prog on a journey back to the original record’s creation and reveal how it got its cryptic title.

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