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Great prog you must hear from Nine Stones Close, Tiberius, Krokofant and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week!

Cool new proggy sounds to enjoy from Could Seed, Danafae, Lawrence English and more...

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Brian May opens up about Queen's doubts on having Freddie Mercury as their frontman in their early days: "He did a lot of running around the place and screaming his head off. So we thought, ‘Is this going work?’"

Queen guitarist Brian May reveals how the band used to find working with Freddie Mercury "a little unnerving"

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Elbow share video for brand new single, the motorik-driven Adriana Again

Manchester pop proggers Elbow will release a brand new EP in the coming months

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Unique Steven Wilson video props are up for sale!

Props from videos for Steven Wilson's Routine and Beautiful Scarecrow have been put up for sale

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“They stopped making a furious racket a long time ago, but they’ve never sounded as elegant or assured as they do here”: Klone’s The Unseen

Continuing the melodic explorations they began in 2019, French prog metallers’ 10th full-length album is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of work

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“I had a wake-up moment with Jon Anderson – ’It can be this great, so why am I in a band with people who just wait for the pay cheque?” Roine Stolt slashed the average age of The Flower Kings before making Waiting For Miracles

Tired of people who “put a lid on the joy” of music, a line-up change presented a fresh front with younger energy on their 2019 double album

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At war with their producer. At war with their label. At war with each other: The chaotic making of Van Halen's 1984 - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Alex Van Halen, the Rolling Stones, Opetrh, George Murray, Queen, Vion Hdertzen Brothers, Meat Loaf, Joan Armatrading, Michael Monroe, Rosalie Cunningham, The Sheepdogs, Koyo, The Darkness, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Starbenders and more

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"This is song packed with pure naughtiness and fun": Witness Brian May as you've never seen him before in the video for Talia Dean's You Made Your Bed

Childhood teddy bear? Check. Space-themed bedding? Check. Red special guitar? Of course check

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"An irresistible combination of Aerosmith swagger and finely honed pop sensibilities": Ratt's best album Out Of The Cellar revived - just don't call it hair metal

The ultimate Ratt'N'Roll album returns

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"A scope and ambition that still dazzles over 50 years on": Aphrodite’s Child are ambitious and utterly bonkers on the genre-shredding 666 The Apocalypse Of John

A multi-format re-release of Aphrodite's Child's progressive rock masterpiece

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"The highlights are undermined by quite a lot of dross": Primal Scream are sporadically groovy yet ultimately frustrating on Come Ahead

The Primal Scream team fail to get their rocks off with this underwhelming comeback

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"A combination of earnestness and cheeky humour that is infectious and joyous": Massive Wagons conjure up more magic on Earth To Grace

Lancashire rockers Massive Wagons still going strong on album seven

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"This is a teaching album": Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin IV, by Heart's Ann Wilson

Heart's singer Ann Wilson remembers learning along with Led Zeppelin

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"I've got my new band together now. I've got the Yes that I wanted": After half a century of Yes music, Jon Anderson talks about everything, from football to fairies

Fronting Yes he was one of the architects of prog rock, and now he fronts his own band. But that’s only part of his wondrous story

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“Massive. Exploring. Space travel.” After ELP’s Tarkus inspired the purchase of a Hammond organ, Elephant9 have defined and refined their experimental sound with help from across the Norwegian music scene

Latest album Mythical River has artistic tributaries including John Paul Jones, Motorpsycho, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Dungen, Red Kite – and also coffee

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Airbag announced as third headline act for next year's Winter's End Festival

80s prog legends Haze and Lesois also announced for Winter's End Festival which takes place from April 24-27.

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“More in common with the original Hawkwind Zoo than the current incarnation”: Hawklords’ Relativity casts them as worriers on the edge of time

Jerry Richards’ band delivers grooves, hooks and vitality on 11th album, amid a concept story of AI and machines

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“I said, ‘What do you mean, evacuate now? I just ordered my hors d’oeuvres!’” The twists of fate pushing Jon Anderson to finish his next projects – even if they take 30 years

The sequel to Olias Of Sunhillow, a reunion with Roine Stolt, a musical featuring Kelsey Grammer… the Yes veteran says a lot is happening soon, although he’s less sure about 1000 Hands Part 2 and his memoir

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"The looseness that the Faces were known for just became too loose. It was such an unprofessional band": How Rod Stewart corralled chaos to make his solo classic Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story arrived by accident, was rescued by some last-minute songs, a fat slice of luck and a dozen hard-drinking hombres – and helped launch Rod Stewart’s solo career

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"I was being a very bad boy. It was not a good time": Bob Welch was the man who kept Fleetwood Man going, but a decade later he was smoking crack with Guns N' Roses

In this exclusive extract from his new Fleetwood Mac book, Mark Blake tells the tale of Bob Welch, the man Mick Fleetwood credits as having played a crucial role in keeping the Mac together

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"I don't only shoot famous people, but it's fun working with cranky old rock stars": Photographer Scarlet Page on her portraits of Lemmy, David Bowie, Dave Grohl, Chris Cornell and more

Scarlet Page has shot portraits of some of our greatest rock stars, and she's got stories about all of them

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In late 1967 Pink Floyd stayed at Alice Cooper's house before appearing on American Bandstand: on both occasions, Syd Barrett completely baffled his hosts

While in California to promote their Apples And Oranges single, Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett began to show signs of the behaviour that would lead to his departure from the band

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Midsummer Prog Festival under threat after venue hit with noise restrictions

Next year's Midsummer Prog Festival was due to place in June in Valkenburg in Holland

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Solstice announced as extra night headliners as Summer's End celebrates three full-day 20th anniversary

The 20th anniversary of Summer's End Festival takes place at the Chepstow Drill Hall from October 2 - 5

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“The band played the Reichstag in Berlin to a crowd of 250,000. He went home and told everyone… They were more excited that somebody had won a tenner at the bingo!” The grounding experiences of Barclay James Harvest

Unrelentingly Northern in attitude, both parts the slow-burning band that split in two seemed happy with their lot – but is their story one of unfulfilled achievements?

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