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“We always had so much more in common with bands like Yesand Genesis… we wanted to see how far we could take an idea”: What Blue Öyster Cult thought of being called prog – and what they really thought of the More Cowbell sketch

They may have been called “the thinking man’s metal band” but comparing themselves to ELP, Jethro Tull and King Crimson, they assert there was a lot more progressive thinking going on than many realised

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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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"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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“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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Yes in narrow lead as Scottish Labour suffer major blow in poll

SUPPORT for independence remains stable as Yes takes a narrow lead and Scottish Labour suffer a major blow in a latest poll.

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“It was fun checking out Steve Howe’s gear. He really made the case to me for the guitar stand. You know… the one where your guitar is actually standing!” Hannah Wicklund on opening for Yes and Deep Purple – and her undying love of Anderson Guitars

New album Live at the Troubadour was recorded during a life-changing period for the 27-year-old, who has slowed down her playing and become more open and honest with her music than ever before

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Fury as Scottish Parliament security 'ban Alex Salmond tribute T-shirt'

SCOTTISH Parliament security stepped in to have a woman’s t-shirt “removed” because it displayed a quote from the late Alex Salmond ...

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“Carol Kaye taught me real hard, telling me, ‘No, no, you’re playing the notes but you’re not playing the feel’”: Gene Simmons names 6 bass players who shaped his sound

The Kiss icon explains how Ronnie Wood is a better bassist than guitarist, why he can’t recall anything John Paul Jones played, and what makes him the Burger King Whopper of bass players

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Yes leads in first Scottish independence poll since Alex Salmond's death

SUPPORT for Scottish independence is sitting at 52 per cent, according to a new poll.

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“We have to be true to ourselves and to the idea of Yes… we’re all aiming for the heart of the same sunrise”: Jon Anderson’s gratitude at returning from the edge of death to make latest solo album True

80-year-old ex Yes singer recalls effectively passing in his wife’s arms – before a series of incidents returned him to health, creativity and a new appreciation of his past and future

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“We don’t write as proggy as we used to; we’re older and lazier, but you hear a lot on those early albums”: Doug Pinnick, who stole his sound from Chris Squire, would do everything differently if King’s X went round again

Bassist/vocalist reflects on his band being called the next big thing – but also the most unsellable product of all time

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“Jon Anderson taught me some things about songwriting – I’d love to work with him again”: Glass Hammer mainman Steve Babb’s prog world orbits Yes, Rush, Genesis… and the Human League

Inspired by Tolkien at an early age, the Tennessean encountered prog when a punk friend handed over his suddenly unwanted record collection

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Surge in Scottish independence support predicted after Alex Salmond's death

A LEADING Alba figure has called upon the nation to “deliver independence for Scotland” in honour of Alex Salmond’s legacy as he predicted a…

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Alex Salmond's coffin to be draped in Saltire ahead of return to Scotland

ALEX Salmond’s coffin will be draped in a Saltire before it is flown home to Scotland later on Friday ...

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“Every time my parents went out, Supper’s Ready went on the turntable so I could listen uninterrupted”: Long before Gary Kemp joined Nick Mason’s band, he ensured prog infiltrated Spandau Ballet

Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd were the guitarist’s early purchases – making more sense of his presence in Saucerful Of Secrets than it may have seemed

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"A perfect blend of epic songwriting and virtuoso musicianship”: Can you hear the influence of Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd in Toto’s proggiest moments?

Operating on the cusp of the genre, they’ve provided plenty of evidence over the years that their roots lay in prog

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Expert delves into 'missing voices' of Scottish independence referendum

AN expert has delved into the “missing voices” of the 2014 independence referendum, arguing the Yes campaign potentially “missed…

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“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind, harsh and cruel … It was very upsetting to have someone you admire being so nasty about your work”: Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull’s War Child, and 1974

Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year

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“An eight-minute opening track… pomp, circumstance, Wagnerian bombast and epic grandeur”: Propaganda’s A Secret Wish was more prog than people knew

Known as “ABBA from Hell,” the German synth-poppers’ 1985 debut had links to Yes, Mike Oldfield and Die Krupps

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Alex Salmond pictured throughout his political career

THE former first minister and leader of the SNP, Alex Salmond, has died - leaving behind a legacy in Scottish politics ...

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“This was more than just music… It’s part of your DNA if you were that age at the time. It defines the times”: Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd alumni on what The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper did for prog

Rick Wakeman, Roger Waters and Robert Fripp were among those listening when the BBC played the record in full in 1967 – and weren’t the only ones who experienced artistic epiphanies that night

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“Had we started a little earlier we might have survived. Yes and Genesis got through punk, but we hadn’t gotten to that point”: Gryphon, the unique band who forgot about themselves – until the world reminded them

Five decades after an incredible year of two remarkable albums and large-scale touring, the reactivated band look back on crêpe paper mushrooms, stolen costumes and writing classic tracks in half an hour

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"A joyous piece of vinyl": Rick Wakeman looks back over his career with the glittering, limited edition Yessonata

This Rick Wakeman medley reworks and reimagines some of his greatest moments

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“You’ve only go to look at the dynamic potential of 10 fingers on a keyboard compared to 10 fingers on a guitar ”: Steve Howe on six-string explorations and how a Novatron Summit opened a window into fresh chord voicings on his new solo album

Guitarscape, is the sound of the prog icon deploying his guitar collection in search of new sonic frontiers. The results are typically inventive, and here the Yes guitarist tells us how it came together

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“It was extremely hard to deal with. But if you impose incredibly hard obstacles to making something, and people stay in the room, you might just get there”: The radical neutrality that gave birth to King Crimson’s Red

Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, John Wetton and guests struggled to deliver the 1974 album that, for many years, remained severely underrated

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