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“I got three whacks with the cane for lying and skipping school. So I blame The Beatles for me being in the music business. I also blame them for getting a whacking!” Derek Shulman’s path to Gentle Giant

Singer and future A&R icon recalls what the Fab Four meant to him, why Hendrix made him break up his first big band, and the truck stop where he met Syd Barrett, Eric Clapton and others

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“He’s full of warmth for those they befriended on their rise, and full of ire for those who crossed them”: Derek Shulman takes aim at Syd Barrett, the Beach Boys, the Eagles and others in his not-very-gentle memoir Giant Steps

Former Gentle Giant vocalist who became an A&R bigwig provides an refreshingly undiplomatic account of his career on stage and off it

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We pay tribute to Supertramp and founding member Rick Davies in the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Prog 164 also features Rick Wakeman, Gentle Giant, Barclay James Harvest, Lunatic Soul, Arjen Lucassen, Jo Quail, The Emerald Dawn, Spriggan Mist and loads more...

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“We put full-sized speakers at the back of the hall for quadraphonic sound. Someone walked off with one! I’ve no idea how – it’s not like they put it in a pocket”: The story of Gentle Giant’s only live album, Playing The Fool

Presenting their concert experience on record was a steep challenge in 1976. Now they’ve reconstructed the tapes to make it feel like you’re there, complete with heckling

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Black Sabbath had no idea they were being "ripped off" in the 1970s until prog legends Gentle Giant exposed the truth

Gentle Giant frontman Derek Shulman recalls the fraught 1972 meeting that ended with Ozzy Osbourne throwing a bottle at management

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"All he asked for was a six-pack of beer. He was awesome!" How Derek Shulman got Jethro Tull playing with Men Without Hats

How Ian Anderson ended up playing flute on Canadian 80s synth band Men Without Hats 1987 album Pop Goes The World

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Gentle Giant's Derek Shulman to publish career-spanning memoir, Giant Steps, in October

Giant Steps traces Derek Shulman's career from Simon Dupree & The Big Sound through Gentle Giant to record executive working with Bon Jovi, Dream Theater, AC/DC and more...

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“I don’t worry about labels and I’ve ended up in the premier prog band of all time. If I’d listened to haters I’d have stopped after my first record”: Billy Sherwood’s journey to Yes started with the wayward World Trade

By the time he reunited his 80s group for third album Unify, he’d replaced Chris Squire and started fronting Asia. None of it would have happened without Toto and Gentle Giant

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We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now, and also featuring Richard Sinclair, Gentle Giant, Peter Baumann, Katatonia

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“It was one of the most vibrant and exciting live albums of its day. The new version raises the bar”: Gentle Giant’s Playing The Fool – The Complete Live Experience is an exceptional work

The real-life running order is reinstated, audience sound is returned and Derek Shulman’s song introductions are heard in souped-up version of 1977 classic

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Gentle Giant's Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience will be released in May

Gentle Giant's classic 1977 live album has been reimagined, remixed and remastered

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“The only way of getting back on track was to regain control of just about every facet of the band”: When Mike Portnoy quit Dream Theater for the first time, the shakeup led to epic double-album Metropolis Pt. 2

1999 modern prog masterpiece – their first record with Jordan Rudess – came after the dismissal of Derek Sherinian, the demise of internal “fake democracy” and fights with their label and the media

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“We were torn between trying to make it big and making our music more crossover, but failing… that happened because we became conscious of what we were doing”: The Power And The Glory signalled the beginning of the end for Gentle Giant

They’d reasserted themselves after a line-up change and enjoyed the results – but the surprisingly polarised response to their sixth album led them to start second-guessing their own work.

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“Tchaikovsky was a sort of mentor; if it was good, ABBA or whatever, we didn’t shut anything out”: When Gentle Giant revisited seventh album Free Hand

The reissue, complete with Steven Wilson remixes, was the band’s chance to look back on what the band had liked about 1975 release, and what they hadn’t

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“Others’ expectations kept me from taking it seriously for a long time… Some will say, ‘What is this old prat on about?’ but I don’t give a damn”: Why Ian Anderson took the risk of making Thick As A Brick 2

In exploring what could have happened to Gerald Bostock – the child prodigy of the 1972 Jethro Tull album – he explored where else his own life might have taken him

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“Half streamlined, half baroque, it wasn’t for everybody – but it hits the spot now”: Gentle Giant’s The Missing Piece gets the Steven Wilson varnish

Side one gravitates to the new era of 1977, but side two reverts to prog. It’s a reminder of how unique the band always were

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“I don’t remember saying I’d never heard Led Zeppelin. It’s beyond stupidity to say that!”: did Kingdom Come really sound like Zeppelin? Not according to singer Lenny Wolf

Kingdom Come released their divisive debut album on March 1, 1988. Original singer Lenny Wolf looks back on success, struggle and those infamous comparisons

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Gentle Giant to reissue remixed version of eighth album Interview

Gentle Giant's 1976 concept album Interview will be reissued in June. Watch a video trailer for the release here...

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