Featuring all the best content from the first decade of Prog magazine, this collection boasts the biggest names in the industry and dives into their greatest work. Including Camel, Yes, Marillion and Genesis, you'll meet some of the most famous names in Prog, find out what the likes of Roger Waters are doing now and chart the 100 finest Prog albums out there.
The Prog Collection
10 Years Of PROG
CRIMSON TIDES • Just like that, Bill Bruford’s percussive toys have been consigned to the box marked ‘retired’. And yet as the only man to play for the ‘holy trinity’ of prog bands in Yes, King Crimson and Genesis, he has a fascinating story to tell, as Paul Henderson finds out.
The Office • Goodbye set-lists, hello spreadsheets.
THE HERO’S RETURN • He’s back. The man who built The Wall in 1979 and started a division between himself, his Pink Floyd bandmates and his audience, Roger Waters is reconstructing his idea, brick by brick, this time with hope in his heart. Quantity surveying: Jerry Ewing.
TURNING THE TIDE… • Gilmour! Waters! On stage together again! Could this be the shape of Floyd to come? Prog gets out the crystal ball.
Welcome Back My Friends… …to the show that never ends. • Welcome to our Emerson, Lake and Palmer feature which we produced in 2010 to celebrate not only the progmeisters’ 40th anniversary, but also the fact that Messrs Emerson, Lake and Palmer reunited and performed at the Classic Rock High Voltage Festival in London’s Victoria Park on July 25. Arguably one of the most inventive and bombastic of all the great progressive rock bands, we’ve gone some small way to honouring the band in the manner they deserve. Inside you’ll find exclusive, all-new interviews with Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, with Carl Palmer taking time out from his busy schedule to answer Prog readers’ queries.
The Piano Man • From clandestine meetings when they were members of The Nice and King Crimson to getting back together to work on a potential new album last year, Keith Emerson tells Philip Wilding how he and Greg Lake were always destined to work together.
THE MAJESTY OF ELP • The classic rock world pays homage
The Bass Man • Greg Lake’s out on the road in America with Keith Emerson and he’s sporting a shiner. Philip Wilding gets on the blower to make sure all is well in camp ELP!
THE MAJESTY OF ELP • The classic rock world pays homage
Ask Captain Carl! • Busy in the studio finishing off Asia’s Omega album, Carl Palmer agreed to answer Prog readers’ longest-held ELP questions.
THE SHOW OF THEIR LIVES • Putting two members of etherial Canterbury scenesters Caravan into a room with interesting snookerist Steve Davis turned out to be an unexpected laugh riot. Malcolm Dome takes notes.
THE BEAT GOES ON • Motorcycling, new fatherhood and film stardom. How does Neil Peart fit it all in and play in Rush too? In his first rock magazine interview in five years, Peart gives Philip Wilding his view from the drum stool on the mammoth Time Machine tour and the future of the band…
MUSO SUPERFAN! • “He made me want to practice every waking minute of the day!” Biffy Clyro’s Ben Johnston on how Neil Peart changed his life.
“OH MY GOD! IT GOES ON FOREVER!” • It was the album where Rush tore up their blueprint and made a dynamic new template for their future career. Geddy Lee gets a bit excited with Dom Lawson on the revival of Moving Pictures …
“IT’S ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS IN HISTORY!” • Manic Street Preacher Nicky Wire on the genius of Moving Pictures…
The Thrill Of The Chase • October 6, 1972: Genesis release their fourth album, Foxtrot, the record that will see their ‘theatrical rock’ tip over into bombastic costumery, Mellotron-steeped magnificence and the most feted prog suite in history, Supper’s...