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“It’s amazing to see Adrian Belew and Steve Vai playing together. My temptation is to pick up the camera! I have to remind myself to stick to my job playing bass”: For the King Crimson-channeling Beat tour, Tony Levin is a virtuoso among virtuosos

The bass icon on how he’s being challenged by parts he wrote, changing classic tracks –and when his Funk Fingers will make their next appearance

Guitar World

“I’d be playing the synth, thinking, ‘Peter, do you see this? Sting is playing that part – and you don’t mind when Sting does it!’” Tony Levin explains the origins of his Funk Fingers appendages – and the friendly rivalry they sparked with Peter Gabriel

The bass icon says the Funk Fingers are at the heart of an ongoing argument about the performance of Big Time

Guitar World

"I wanted to be the person who came up with the ideas and made grandiose visionary albums." How TV soap opera director Phideaux became a prog sensation

The story of Phideaux's 2018 album Infernal, the final part of his dystopian prog trilogy

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Messy kitchens, work-life balance and chronic lateness: relationship experts on the one argument they can’t stop having with their partners

From the marriage therapist to the matchmaker, what are their strategies for coping with petty grievances?

The Guardian - UK

Channel your inner Phil Collins with Solid State Logic's new GateVerb non-linear reverb plugin

Recreate the iconic gated reverb sound that defined the '80s

MusicRadar

Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett pay tribute to former Genesis tour manager Richard Macphail

Former Genesis and Peter Gabriel tour manager and "sixth-member" Richard Macphail has died aged 73

Louder

“He’s so playful and cheeky… nothing he ever does sounds muso. I recognise the punk-rock chancer that I am in his playing”: What Guy Pratt learned from Tony Levin

Pink Floyd and Saucerful of Secrets bassist hails his friend and counterpart for inspired work with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and much more

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“We were trying to get to that level of the music we really loved… It’s always slightly out of reach, but my God, you can have fun trying to get there”: Tears For Fears on their mystical purpose

A King Crimson show in 1981 kickstarted the duo’s partnership, powered by all kinds of prog and never completely destroyed by their battles

Louder

‘Peter Gabriel’s cover of The Book of Love bought me a house’: the Magnetic Fields on 69 Love Songs

‘The album expressed a position on heteronormativity. I’d sing a male part or lesbian part. It’s normal now, but 25 years ago it felt electrifying’

The Guardian - UK

“It’s the silliest name since Genesis did a track called Squonk. But The Beatles is a silly name, if you think about it”: The world according to Squackett, prog’s great forgotten supergroup

Late Yes bassist Chris Squire, ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, some old Led Zeppelin and pints of vodka – this was one-off prog supergroup Squackett

Louder

“Peter Gabriel got all the credibility, and I got the money – ha!” Phil Collins on his role as Genesis’ class clown and their only contact with the outside world

How the “junior member” broke into the band’s songwriting clique, his embarrassment over his solo success, and how the Sex Pistols influenced his choice of record label

Louder

“It’s the irony of ironies – paying Zuckerberg to show people songs that are denouncing him”: Church Of The Cosmic Skull’s Bill Fisher puts politics in prog as he explores How To Think Like A Billionaire

He took inspiration from Steely Dan, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel to take a shot at space-race moguls via what he calls “yacht doom” music

Louder

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers might have based their entire career on it": Steven Wilson's 20 favourite British rock albums

Porcupine Tree mainman, solo star and prog remix king Steven Wilson on 20 British albums that blew his mind

Louder

"It was so intense. It felt like lightning when I heard it as a kid": Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan picks the 10 albums that changed his life

Rival Sons frontman Jay Buchanan picks ten records that inspired his career in rock

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Savers warned of pensions impact on deforestation in Jane Goodall ad campaign

The campaign calls on pension schemes to publish deforestation policies and develop action plans to tackle the issue in their portfolios.

MusicRadar

"Progressive rock legends Genesis certainly knew about pushing musical boundaries": Learn 4 inspiring chords from their Peter Gabriel era

Firth of A minor

Louder

“Some albums are a natural birth. This one was definitely a breech birth. It came out kicking and screaming”: the turbulent story of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, the album that tore Genesis in two

Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is one of the great 70s concept albums – and the album that saw Peter Gabriel bid farewell to the band

Louder

“Peter Gabriel was forced to start slipping into this persona… If we’d not had two 12-strings to retune, would he ever have started telling all those stories?” Why so many musicians envy Anthony Phillips’ career after Genesis

Illness, heartbreak and stage fright may have led some to think of him as an also-ran – but under the radar he’s much, much more than the “ex-genius” people thought they read on a poster

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“We kept binning stuff that sounded too much like us… 10 albums in, it’s got to feel different”: Prog was always in Elbow’s music, but it’s upfront on Audio Vertigo

Singer Guy Garvey and keyboardist Craig Potter chart their history from second-hand record collectors to art rock giants with big-name fans

Louder

“I was keen to get a new audience. It took me until album number three before I found an identity”: The adventure of Peter Gabriel’s first four solo records

Car, Scratch, Melt and Security log the incredible distance he covered between leaving Genesis and creating So

Louder

“They stuck me in contraptions to make sure he wouldn’t get decapitated”: Comic artist Mark Buckingham on being Peter Gabriel’s stunt double for Sledgehammer

Fables, Hellblazer and Miracleman creative’s prog journey includes ELO, Stackridge, IQ, Magenta, all the King Crimson he can buy… and The Wombles

Louder

"There wasn't an option to go and hide in the shadows any more": How Peter Gabriel made So and became the world's biggest-selling cult artist

In 1986 Peter Gabriel released his fifth studio album So. It was a huge international hit. This is how it happened

Louder

"The musicianship just isn't on display, which is astonishing - bordering on criminal - given the talent involved": Calling All Stations by Genesis fails to improve with age

Facing a future without Phil Collins, the remaining men of Genesis turned to that fella from Stiltskin

Louder

"When Peter Gabriel played Red Rain I started sobbing - it makes me think of my dad": The soundtrack of Wolfgang Van Halen's life

Mammoth WVH guitarist/vocalist Wolfgang Van Halen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

Louder

In the late 1970s NASA asked Peter Gabriel if he'd like to go into space: Then the Shah of Iran was deposed

Peter Gabriel on his favourite films, how his dad invented on-demand TV, and the space adventure that nearly was

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