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‘The bathrooms were rank, but we didn’t care’: how the grimy-but-great CBGB changed rock for ever

Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track box set

The Guardian - UK

“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

Louder

“The music was very dependent on accurate timing… If it was a big stage and we were spread out, it was just murder for us”: They were a pivotal band in prog’s golden age and split in 1980, but Gentle Giant still have a rabid fanbase

With Gentle Giant’s legendary Playing The Fool receiving a remix, the band’s Gary Green reminisces about the challenges of gear and gigging in the ’70s

Guitar World

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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

Louder

“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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“The cape-wielding progressive rock behemoth was not in vogue… there was an effort to make it simpler, but our musical identity was still at stake”: Gentle Giant take a fresh look at The Missing Piece

Underrated gem or confused mess? Gary Green, John Weathers and Kerry Minnear discuss their 1977 album in the light of Steven WIlson’s remix

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Arthur Brown executed 30 years after massacre of 4 people including pregnant teen

Arthur Brown Jr, mow 52, was condemned for the June 1992 deaths in a Houston home during a drug robbery - including shooting dead a pregnant 19-year-old woman

Daily Mirror

Man executed for killing wife and her daughter tells family to ‘forgive me and move on’ in dying statement

Texas has executed Gary Green for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago

The Independent UK

Gary Green: Killer begs victim's family to forgive him moments before execution

Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection for the September 2009 deaths of Lovetta Armstead, 32, and her daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, at their home in Dallas

Daily Mirror

Gary Green executed for 2009 killing of wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter

Gary Green, 51, faced capital punishment after killing his wife, Lovetta Armstead, 32, and her daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, in Dallas, Texas, back in 2009

Daily Mirror

Texas inmate executed for killing wife and her daughter

Texas has executed an inmate for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago

The Independent UK

Death Row knifeman to be executed for killing wife and drowning her daughter, 6, in bath

Gary Green, 51, faces capital punishment after killing his wife, Lovetta Armstead, 32, and her daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, in Dallas, Texas, back in 2009

Daily Mirror

Texas executes Gary Green for 2009 murder of his wife and her 6-year-old daughter

Green’s appellate attorneys unsuccessfully argued that his intellectual impairments and mental health status made him ineligible for the death penalty.

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The Independent UK

Man faces execution in death of estranged wife, her daughter

A Texas inmate is facing a scheduled execution Tuesday evening for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago

Texas Observer

Two Executions, Many Questions about Mental Health, Innocence

Gary Green and Arthur Brown Jr. are set to be killed next week by the State of Texas.

The Independent UK

PM’s tribute to ‘daring and bravery’ of Falklands task force on 40th anniversary

It is 40 years to the day since Argentine forces surrendered, bringing the war to an end.

ABC News

Brisbane sporting clubs face massive repair bills, months of disruption after flood event

Flood damage is expected to cause disruption to sporting competitions as clubs start the huge, and expensive, task of cleaning up

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