As part of Prog’s 10th birthday celebrations, we lovingly put together this second volume of articles compiled from the pages of the world’s greatest progressive music magazine to salute the genre’s icons, cult heroes and new generation of geniuses. Inside, you’ll find the stories behind such landmark albums as Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, Rush’s A Farewell To Kings, and Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, in-depth interviews with Ian Anderson, King Crimson, Opeth and more, plus the 100 Greatest Prog Anthems – as voted by you.
The Prog Collection (Volume 2 Sixth Revised Edition)
Editor’s Note
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE • Discover 146 pages of classic albums reappraised by rock’s greatest writers and ranked according to votes cast by Classic Rock magazine’s readers. Did your favourite make the cut?
The Icons • As the 60s gave way to the 70s, a wave of maverick musicians began to twist rock music into weird new shapes: King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and more. Join us as we celebrate the bands who built prog…
Game of Thrones • King Crimson’s big break came just six months after they’d formed in a remarkable support show to The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park in July 1969. And, according to Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, John Wetton, David Cross, Jamie Muir and Keith Tippett, the Good Fairy was to cast her influence over prog’s most inscrutable outfit in a way that no-one could resist for the next five years…
Ian McDonald • “I felt it was comeuppance for leaving in ‘69…”
Keith Tippett • “I’d have only joined King Crimson for the money – and I had too much respect for them for that.”
David Cross • “I could have died when I saw Jamie’s onstage persona the first time.”
Jamie Muir • “I was as surprised as the rest of the band with what I got up to on stage.”
John Wetton • “I’d never been in a band like it – it was almost telepathic.”
CELEBRATE THE GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME • Uncover four decades of dirty deeds, riff raff and rock ’n’ roll damnation from the makers of Classic Rock magazine. From the mystery of Bon Scott’s death to behind the scenes anecdotes, this is the complete AC/DC story
“ You Gotta Get An Album Out…” Did Wish You Were Here rip apart Pink Floyd? • Wish You Were Here marked the beginning of the end for Pink Floyd. Released in September 1975, their ninth album remains one of their most loved works and its genteel, glacial grandeur sounds as contemporary today as it did when it was first heard over 40 years ago.
The Band Is Just Fantastic • Five Classic Wish You Were Here Moments
Choppy Waters • For such a heartfelt, poetic and occasionally romantic lyricist, in Welcome To The Machine and Have A Cigar, Wish You Were Here contains two of Waters baldest attacks on the hand that fed him. Here are five more of Waters’ vinegary vignettes…
Life Is A Long Song… • A maverick, a mogul and the maestro of his own destiny, Ian Anderson has approached his career as a conductor would his orchestra, bringing together disparate elements to create astonishing results. As he was annointed Prog God the Progressive Music Awards in 2013, the man himself sat down with Prog to look back on his life and ahead to his future, with or without Jethro Tull…
The Minstrel In His Gallery • The Maestro goes solo…
The Minstrel In His Gallery • The Maestro goes solo…
“It’s a series of snapshots about… us.” • Anderson’s new solo album explores humanity, ‘from the Ice Age to the future’.
The Minstrel In His Gallery • The Maestro goes solo…
Only Solitaire? • With talk of a new solo album and tour, what of the future of Jethro Tull?
The Minstrel In His Gallery • The Maestro goes solo…
The Minstrel In His Gallery • The...