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“An obvious smash in hindsight, given its chart-friendly tale of a gardener who refuses to grow up because he’d rather push his lawnmower around”: Genesis’ 10 best songs with Peter Gabriel

The band’s first phase features a charming, very English sense of melancholy and melodrama – matched with wilful prog complexity

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“Every time my parents went out, Supper’s Ready went on the turntable so I could listen uninterrupted”: Long before Gary Kemp joined Nick Mason’s band, he ensured prog infiltrated Spandau Ballet

Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd were the guitarist’s early purchases – making more sense of his presence in Saucerful Of Secrets than it may have seemed

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“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind, harsh and cruel … It was very upsetting to have someone you admire being so nasty about your work”: Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull’s War Child, and 1974

Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year

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Here's how you can win a $7,500 vintage Minimoog signed by Peter Gabriel

Proceeds from the Bob Moog Foundation's raffle will support its elementary school education project Dr. Bob's SoundSchool

MusicRadar

“I’ve seen a lot of things. Supernatural things. I’ve seen the place between heaven and hell”: The outrageous life of King Diamond, the occult metal icon Metallica love and Gene Simmons wanted to sue

Hauntings, heart attacks, exorcisms and lawsuits – King Diamond looks back on 40 years as Satan’s Little Helper

Metal Hammer

“I had to threaten them. If they weren’t going to include all of my ideas on it, I was off. No one was expecting me to be quite so forthright”: Genesis’ Selling England By The Pound wore a smile over hidden depths

By the time they’d toured their 1973 album, they’d had a sit single, proved Phil Collins could deliver lead vocals, and offered a hint at what would come after Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel left

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“The Rolling Stones gig is the culmination of my childhood dreams – I figure now that I've played with Miles, Sting, Herbie Hancock, Peter Gabriel, and Madonna, I've pretty much covered it”: Darryl Jones looks back at the path that led him to the very top

The Rolling Stones bassist is a force of nature, with a stage and session career second to none

Guitar World

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“I took off my apron. My manager said, ‘You’ve got tables to serve,’ and I said, ‘I’m talking to Peter Gabriel!’” How actor Adrian Lukis was talked out of signing a music contract by his Genesis hero

After connecting with fellow public schoolboys, he went on to admire Pink Floyd’s intellectualism, appreciate Curved Air’s sexiness, and get lost in Jean-Luc Ponty while on acid

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"It was a watershed moment for the band, with our existence very much under threat": Steve Hackett on The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and keeping the Genesis flame alight

Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett's latest 'themed' tour enables him to visit "the best of both worlds"

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“It’s hard to be angry young men at our age, but there are some pretty heavy duty lyrics here. Sometimes you’ve got to speak up”: When Marillion defied expectations (again) with Sounds That Can’t Be Made

The band deliberately – but doubtfully – pushed boundaries with the subjects they explored on their 17th studio album

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“It was early days for the band. We’d gone out on a limb… it was by no means certain that the response would be positive”: Genesis’ early fears for Foxtrot

Barely planned, recorded in fits and starts and complete with one of King Crimson’s Mellotron, their 1972 album was, they believe, the moment they began to be taken seriously

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“I never mind faking it. I had a filthy cold on the night, so vocals were grabbed from other shows. It’s only artifice when you pretend it’s something it isn’t”: Peter Gabriel explains his passion for the video medium

Nearly 30 years after Sledgehammer cleaned up at the MTV Awards, he was pushing boundaries again with his Back To Front concert movie

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“It’s amazing to see Adrian Belew and Steve Vai playing together. My temptation is to pick up the camera! I have to remind myself to stick to my job playing bass”: For the King Crimson-channeling Beat tour, Tony Levin is a virtuoso among virtuosos

The bass icon on how he’s being challenged by parts he wrote, changing classic tracks –and when his Funk Fingers will make their next appearance

Guitar World

“I’d be playing the synth, thinking, ‘Peter, do you see this? Sting is playing that part – and you don’t mind when Sting does it!’” Tony Levin explains the origins of his Funk Fingers appendages – and the friendly rivalry they sparked with Peter Gabriel

The bass icon says the Funk Fingers are at the heart of an ongoing argument about the performance of Big Time

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"I wanted to be the person who came up with the ideas and made grandiose visionary albums." How TV soap opera director Phideaux became a prog sensation

The story of Phideaux's 2018 album Infernal, the final part of his dystopian prog trilogy

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Messy kitchens, work-life balance and chronic lateness: relationship experts on the one argument they can’t stop having with their partners

From the marriage therapist to the matchmaker, what are their strategies for coping with petty grievances?

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Channel your inner Phil Collins with Solid State Logic's new GateVerb non-linear reverb plugin

Recreate the iconic gated reverb sound that defined the '80s

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Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett pay tribute to former Genesis tour manager Richard Macphail

Former Genesis and Peter Gabriel tour manager and "sixth-member" Richard Macphail has died aged 73

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“He’s so playful and cheeky… nothing he ever does sounds muso. I recognise the punk-rock chancer that I am in his playing”: What Guy Pratt learned from Tony Levin

Pink Floyd and Saucerful of Secrets bassist hails his friend and counterpart for inspired work with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and much more

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“We were trying to get to that level of the music we really loved… It’s always slightly out of reach, but my God, you can have fun trying to get there”: Tears For Fears on their mystical purpose

A King Crimson show in 1981 kickstarted the duo’s partnership, powered by all kinds of prog and never completely destroyed by their battles

The Guardian - UK

‘Peter Gabriel’s cover of The Book of Love bought me a house’: the Magnetic Fields on 69 Love Songs

‘The album expressed a position on heteronormativity. I’d sing a male part or lesbian part. It’s normal now, but 25 years ago it felt electrifying’

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“It’s the silliest name since Genesis did a track called Squonk. But The Beatles is a silly name, if you think about it”: The world according to Squackett, prog’s great forgotten supergroup

Late Yes bassist Chris Squire, ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, some old Led Zeppelin and pints of vodka – this was one-off prog supergroup Squackett

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“Peter Gabriel got all the credibility, and I got the money – ha!” Phil Collins on his role as Genesis’ class clown and their only contact with the outside world

How the “junior member” broke into the band’s songwriting clique, his embarrassment over his solo success, and how the Sex Pistols influenced his choice of record label

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“It’s the irony of ironies – paying Zuckerberg to show people songs that are denouncing him”: Church Of The Cosmic Skull’s Bill Fisher puts politics in prog as he explores How To Think Like A Billionaire

He took inspiration from Steely Dan, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel to take a shot at space-race moguls via what he calls “yacht doom” music

Louder

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers might have based their entire career on it": Steven Wilson's 20 favourite British rock albums

Porcupine Tree mainman, solo star and prog remix king Steven Wilson on 20 British albums that blew his mind

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