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“We were both big ELP fans, and I’m sure if you look at our record collections back then you’d have seen Yes, Greenslade, King Crimson…” How electronic music duo Underworld grew up with a world of prog

No one would call dance outfit Underworld a prog band. But they grew up influenced by the whole genre, it appears

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10 brilliant, bizarre and utterly WTF Lemmy collaborations

From Slash and Dave Grohl to glamour models and 80s girl groups, Lemmy worked with ’em all

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“Most bass players are boring, standing at the back. I’m not like that because I was a guitarist first”: Lemmy, the godfather of heavy rock, on why he switched from guitar to bass

The Motörhead frontman switched to bass guitar while working as a roadie for Hawkwind

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“Transportative music… a deeply cosmic record that might be out there with their very best”: Hawkwind’s Stories From Time And Space

The space rock icons’ late-career renaissance continues on their 36th studio album

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“He did one track… then went off with some famous singer to do another album”: Hawkwind’s collaboration with William Orbit didn’t happen on this album - but they hope it will on the next

Stories From Time And Space marks the band’s first offworld work in years, after being mentioned in a book got them thinking of the cosmos again

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"Ballet shoes and Motorhead don't mix": The history of Motorhead in 12 songs

From the song that gave the band its name to their tribute to a fellow music legend, these are the songs that tell the story of Motorhead - the greatest rock'n'roll band to ever live

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“Lemmy was standing at the door. He gave me a bullet belt and a leather jacket and said, ‘You’re in!’”: the riotous story of Motörhead’s early years and the birth of “the worst band in the world“

How Lemmy bounced back from being fired from Hawkwind and defied the detractors to launch Motörhead into orbit

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“Tony Hill’s experiments in six-string overload go to places even Hendrix feared to tread… Simon House’s sonic attack is equal to anything he did with Hawkwind”: High Tide’s Sea Shanties reissue

Remastered vinyl edition retains the apocalyptic heavy psych and proto-prog first delivered in 1969

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“A curious figure as a solo artist… he precedes Byrne & Eno and practically invents Underworld”: Synth pioneer Tim Blake shines in 3CD set Crystal Presence – The Albums 1977-1991

Former Gong and Hawkwind member proves space-keys don’t have to be glacial, although one of the three records here feels more dated than the others

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“The director told me he wanted a song about death… Not only that, but it was a rabbit”: Mike Batt on Watership Down, his concept albums and the connection between the Wombles, Steeleye Span and (maybe) Hawkwind

Performer, composer and director on his early introduction to prog, the shelved 1973 rock opera that cost him £11,000 and keeping Dave Brock under control

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Hawkwind detail new studio album Stories From Time And Space

Hawkwind will release 36th studio album Stories From Time And Space in April

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“We knew a transplant would be very risky. He said, ‘I’ll either walk out of the hospital or I’ll be carried out. I can’t take it any more’.” Mama’s Boys looked set to break America in the '80s, but naivety, bad luck and family tragedy broke their hearts

Thin Lizzy's spiritual heirs, Mama's Boys looked set for international success in the mid '80s. Brothers Pat and John McManus explain exactly why it didn't happen

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In Memoriam: remembering the rock musicians we lost in 2023

Raising a toast to those musicians, producers, songwriters and artists who passed away in 2023

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“When Motörhead leaves, there will be a hole there that just can't be filled”: Remembering Lemmy

His name was Lemmy, and he played rock'n'roll

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“This one has done better in the first three weeks than our debut did in a year!" The story of Panic Room's Satellite

With their second album under their belts, Welsh prog squad Panic Room are taking bigger and bolder strides and they intend to let nothing whatsoever stand in their way.

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“We played for practically 24 hours. When somebody got too tired, somebody else would take over. It was a functional, practical thing to enable the band to play for ever!” When the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind became a single band

Pushed together by accident, two pioneering acts of the psychedelic era made the most of it

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Yes grace the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Peter Gabriel, Fish, Edgar Broughton, Gong, Bruce Soord, Tiger Moth Tales, The Emerald Dawn, Southern Empire, Christina and loads more...

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“On a few occasions I didn’t bother turning up at the early Hawkwind gigs - I earned more money busking at cinema queues”: Dave Brock’s life and times

From a dreamer using subway tunnels as echo units to leader of the anti-establishment icons, his encounters include Lemmy, LSD and celebrity druids

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Hawkwind reveal title of new album Stories From Time And Space

Hawkwind's 36th studio album Stories From Time And Space will be released in April

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Has Steven Wilson's remix of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time become the definitive version?

Steven Wilson's version of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time gets a vinyl release. Can we let him have a go at Hall Of The Mountain Grill too?

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“For Lemmy and I, Hawkwind wasn’t a job, it was like family. That’s why he was so devastated when he got fired”: Stacia Blake’s role in space rock

They both left the pioneering band in 1975, but for dancer and lifelong artist Stacia, the connections were never broken

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"I was still up at seven in the morning, howling away at the top of my voice" - How Lemmy wrote Motorhead by Motörhead

When Motörhead recorded the definitive version of Motorhead, it was third time lucky: this version would change Lemmy's life

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Jello Biafra: "Hawkwind's Space Ritual is my Ground Zero!"

The former Dead Kennedy's frontman Jello Biafra is a big fan of space rockers Hawkwind

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Hawkwind detail mammoth eleven-disc Space Ritual box set

Hawkwind will release a 50th anniversary box set of Space Ritual in September

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Hawkwind announce Royal Albert Hall show and Space Ritual box set

Hawkwind present An Evening Of Sonic Destruction 50 Years On at the Royal Albert Hall in September

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