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reDiscover ‘And Then There Were Three’
It’s 1978 and Peter Gabriel had been gone for a while, in 1977 guitarist Steve Hackett left Genesis…And then there were three…which became the title of the band’s 9th studio album. …And it was a...
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A Transatlantic First For Phil Collins
It’s 31 years ago today that Phil Collins scored his first American No. 1 single as a solo artist — with a song that won him a Grammy, and might have landed an Oscar as well if it hadn’t been for...
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Van Der Graaf Generator’s BBC Sessions Anthology
A lavish compilation newly available from Universal Music Catalogue celebrates the original BBC session recordings by the pioneering musical visionaries Van Der Graaf Generator. ‘After The Flood: Van...
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reDiscover ‘Nursery Cryme’
It seems inconceivable now that Genesis ever made albums that missed the UK charts when they were first released. But as their audience grew gradually in their early days, such was the case with both...
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How Genesis Spent Their Saturdays
Do you know which Genesis release had them singing about the programme that’s just been named the longest-running TV football show in the world? Or, on another song from it, about the birds that took...
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Chris Squire R.I.P.
We’re sad to report that the death has just been confirmed of Chris Squire, the widely-respected bass player best known for his work with Yes. Chris, aged 67, had been undergoing treatment, in his...
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Steve Hackett’s 135-Song Box Set
Progressive rock guitar hero Steve Hackett will have the early years of his solo catalogue celebrated with the October 16 release of the 14-disc, Super Deluxe box set ‘Premonitions - The Charisma...
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The Modest UK Chart Debut Of Dire Straits
The old music industry adage of great things coming from modest beginnings was rarely more true than in the case of Dire Straits. In their formative months, the group had to endure plenty of...
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Daryl Stuermer Creates New Genesis Experience
Genesis touring guitarist Daryl Stuermer's trio will present a new take on the band’s catalogue this coming week. They’re playing in the Wednesday Night Acoustic Series on August 12 at the CD & ME...
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Prog Awards Recognition For Tony Banks, Chris Squire
Tony Banks and the late Chris Squire are to receive special recognition at Prog Magazine’s Orange Amplification presents Progressive Music Awards this week. The awards, which take place on Thursday...
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Prog Awards 2015
The Progressive Music Awards, that’s Prog Rock Awards to us, that are now in their fourth year, took place at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre's Underglobe last night in London and among the big winners was...
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Camel Rise To The Punk Competition
Received wisdom might suggest that punk rock had laid waste to progressive rock by the latter months of 1977. Genesis, ELP and other heavyweights will tell you otherwise, as will Camel, whose fifth...
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Steve Hackett Rehearses Genesis
Here’s a new short clip that Steve Hackett has posted showing the British guitar hero and his band in rehearsals for their ‘Acolyte To Wolflight’ tour, which begins at GLive in Guildford, Surrey on 6...
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Steve Hackett’s Touch Of Class
Released in 1978, Steve Hackett’s Please Don’t Touch was the ex-Genesis guitarist’s sophomore solo album, and his second of six Top 40 chart entries in the UK. Now reissued as part of his 14-disc box...
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uDiscover Exclusive: Steve Hackett’s Top 11 Prog
Progressive music takes many forms, and Steve Hackett – legendary guitarist, crucial part of the Genesis juggernaut throughout the 70s, and a fearless musical explorer in his own right – has broken the...
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Dancing Up The Charts With Genesis
Whereas many artists release their most commercially successful work in their early days, before finding themselves playing to a dwindling – but nevertheless fiercely devoted – fanbase in their autumn...
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reDiscover ‘Civilian’
Even by prog’s rigorous standards, prolific shapeshifters Gentle Giant were almost unassailably virtuosic. Long-serving guitarist Gary Green and multi-instrumentalist sibling founder members Phil,...
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Genesis In Pictures: 1970-1975
In the early 70s, Genesis blossomed from explorers working at the further reaches of art-rock, into progressive innovators with an all-encompassing command of both sound and vision. A string of albums,...
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Mike + The Mechanics: Beggar’s Banquet
Mike + The Mechanics may have started out as Genesis founder Mike Rutherford’s “other” band, but by the time they released their fourth album, Beggar On A Beach Of Gold, they’d enjoyed a decade’s worth...
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The Best Songs Based On Books
Going back to the dawn of civilisation, stories were songs: Homer’s celebrated epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were initially performed to lute and serve as the bedrock of the oral tradition; only...
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