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Debate: What was the best prog album of 1976?

Punk might have been on the rise but Rush, Genesis, Jon Anderson, Van der Graaf Generator, Kansas, Alan Parsons, Camel and Soft Machine released records that became all-time greats. But which one is your favourite – and why?

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"It doesn’t feel like anything we’ve done before": Tedeschi Trucks Band announces new studio album and mammoth tour - listen to first single I Got You now

Future Soul will be released during Tedeschi Trucks Band's upcoming residency at New York's Beacon Theater

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“I said, ‘There are no vocals. It’s an instrumental album.’ The lawyer said, ‘Do you mean we’ve just paid $12,000 for a piano player?’” Rick Wakeman relives the moment he delivered The Six Wives Of Henry VIII to a horrified record label

In 1970 they gave him Scotch in the morning, a big cash advance and a three-ton limousine. Eventually the man who’d hated the resulting album gave him a platinum disc for its sales

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"I’m scared I’ll get in trouble." How the teenage son of a Canadian punk rocker sampled Beabadoobee without her knowledge on a song about a young man's dying words, and racked up two billion streams without leaving his bedroom

The story behind viral hit Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)

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Prog's Tracks Of The Week! Awesome new proggy sounds from Opeth, NMB, Myrkur and more...

There's cool new proggy sounds from Esthesis, worriedaboutsatan, Holosoil, JeGong and more in this week's Tracks Of The week

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"We thought we made really good records, but we never envisaged hanging out and playing boules at Elton's house": How Therapy? ram-raided the mainstream with an ode to the soap opera of teenage existence

Inspired by Irish punk and the Smash Hits Awards, Screamager brought Therapy? unexpected fame

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"A man was beheaded there and sometimes you can hear his head rolling down": The historic Loch Ness manor once home to Jimmy Page and Aleister Crowley is opening to the public for the first time in 260 years

A home with a dark history, Boleskin House has been fully restored after being gutted by fire in 2015 and 2019

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Debate: Who is the greatest drummer of all time?

Drummers: Turning good bands into great ones since time immemorial

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"It's hard rock for us. It's got a bit more of an 'oomph' than stuff we've been doing for a while": Def Leppard launch new single Rejoice ahead of Las Vegas residency

Def Leppard say they've returned to a rockier sound

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"I've loved it and hated it, loved it and hated it": The story of the breakthrough hit its writer doesn't want to talk about ever again

Drink cider from a lemon? Grant Nicholas reveals the real inspiration behind Feeder's hit single Buck Rogers

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"We are monitoring Mick's progress daily": Uriah Heep founder Mick Box to miss dates on farewell tour after falling ill

Mick Box will miss his first Uriah Heep shows since 1969: Stand-in guitarist announced

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"Dementia? What is? NO! Trump smart, pass brain test, name giraffe!" Jack White mercilessly mocks Donald Trump over "365 wins in 365 days" claims

The White Stripes' founder has promised to block any followers who tell him to "stick to music"

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"I felt like I’d fallen into the bowels of the earth." Fears that witches under the spell of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page had targeted him to help birth the Antichrist led a paranoid David Bowie to store his bodily fluids in the fridge

A fascination with occult magic did nothing to help David Bowie's sanity in the mid '70s

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"It sounded like the way ice cream on a hot summer day tastes." How a Marquis de Sade biography, Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas and a bum note helped "a metal girl from Ohio" write a rock anthem that wowed Nirvana and changed Olivia Rodrigo's life

"We thought no-one would play it." The story behind one of the great '90s alt. rock singles, The Breeders' Cannonball

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"They took a record that I'd made and erased all my songs, all my vocals. I thought, 'I won’t let you get away with this'": From goth glory to bad blood - the Gene Loves Jezebel story

Reflecting on both success and rancour, identical twins Michael and Jay Aston look back on their time in the band – and at each other’s throats

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"It was a long year with many rewards. A couple of us developed expensive hobbies involving white powder and noses": The song that turned an English blues outfit into globe-trotting rock stars with high-maintenance habits

All thanks to a warm, evergreen slice of pure pop genius

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"I just wish that Rage Against The Machine would make a new record!": Buckcherry's Josh Todd on the state of the nation, managing old habits, and going back to school

After 11 studio albums, Buckcherry are on a roll - and Josh Todd is getting good grades

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"People worried about their brain should always wear a helmet": Watch Geddy Lee give celebrity tobogganing advice

Rush's Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson all appeared on Canadian satire show The Mercer Report over the years

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"The impact he left on art is truly magical." Dave Grohl's daughter Violet, and Gary Numan's daughter Persia, team up to salute one of America's greatest film-makers on what would have been his 80th birthday

Listen to Violet Grohl's haunting new single What's Heaven Without You

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Rush to release Super Deluxe box set of 1984's Grace Under Pressure in March

New reissue of Rush's tenth studio album, Grace Under Pressure, features new Terry Brown mix of the album and a full 1984 Toronto concert recording

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"I did my last school exam and played Glastonbury two days later. Two weeks after that we went into the chart at number 11": The story of the joyous breakthrough hit inspired by Thin Lizzy, Star Wars and Dutch cigars

From school to hellraising in short order – all enabled by a story of a whirlwind intergalactic romance

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"All of a sudden, she started biting my tongue and wouldn't let go. There was blood everywhere. Then she went for my forehead": How Thin Lizzy made the albums that saved them, only to be plunged into chaos

Thin Lizzy went from being stone broke to recording the two albums that came to define their career, but bad luck always seemed to be lurking in the shadows

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"This footage is absolutely unbelievable, and nobody can deny it": Ten minutes of previously unseen live film of Pink Floyd has escaped onto the internet

The footage sees Pink Floyd playing Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Money on their North American tour in 1977

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"I gave away all my records, I started giving away my guitars, I was fantasising about my own death." The horrifying origin story behind one of the most uplifting rock songs of the '90s

Out of the darkness, light, and one of the most memorable anthems of the '90s

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"Mike is a complicated person, but he is not a thief." NOFX reveal that guitarist Eric Melvin is suing band leader Fat Mike, accusing him of "financial malfeasance" after 42 years together

NOFX pair may soon be facing one another in a Californian court

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