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“In pursuing my own fake band, I stumbled upon something that had real potential”: How Porcupine Tree unexpectedly grew out of Steven Wilson’s “shameless pastiches”

He only wanted a harmless distraction from No-Man – but when the debut album sold 30 times its original pressing run, he had to take things more seriously

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“Remains a perfect distillation of 80s alienation and ambition. aIts tunes are sublime”: Tears For Fears’ 40th anniversary edition of Songs From The Big Chair

The era-defining 1985 album that made stars of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith returns in extended format with Steven Wilson remixes

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The story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is on the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, which is on sale now

Prog 165 also features Peter Hammill, John Lodge, Cardiacs, Gazpacho, Steve Morse, Solstice, Atomic Rooster, Crown Lands, The Utopia Strong, Barry Palmer, Cate Le Bon, Amorphis and loads more...

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"I believe it has the potential to be something very special". Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. to be adapted for theatre stage

New stage adaptation of Steven Wilson's fourth album, Hand. Cannot. Erase. has the musician's full backing

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“It’s the moment the cracks appeared and their decline into preposterousness began. It sinks under the weight of its own self-importance”: What members of Marillion, Dream Theater, Asia and more think of Yes’ Tales From Topographic Oceans

It was the double-album that split critics, fans and the line-up who recorded it. We asked a range of prog stars for their thoughts on the 1973 release

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Yes announce 15-disc super deluxe edition of Tales From Topographic Oceans

At last! Tales From Topographic Oceans is now even bigger

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“I loved working with bands like Opeth and Marillion. I was starting to get a name for myself. But my New Year resolution was to learn to say ‘no’”: In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way

After over two decades making music, his main band had recently achieved global recognition and he’d just launched his debut solo album. Did he ever really slow down?

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“A fascinating opportunity to look under the hood of the songs and reimagine the strangeness they could conjure”: King Crimson’s In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard ultimate editions

Undervalued 1970 albums, created during period of upheaval, are presented for reinterpretation with help from Steven Wilson and David Singleton

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“Some might wonder why Steven Wilson was brought in. But the art-rock credentials are never in doubt and its songs are progressive in an anarchic way”: XTC’s Drums And Wires returns

Their 1979 commercial breakthrough benefits from Wilson’s finesse, while Steve Lillywhite’s original mix remains daisy-fresh

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Ultravox will release a Deluxe Edition of The Collection in December, featuring new Steven Wilson remixes

Ultravox also share video for new reconstruction version of Love's Great Adventure

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“There was one troll who slagged it off, but I think he was a fan from the Fish years!” Marillion’s Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning took six years to make Gentō, an album that sounds like neither of their bands

Their Bioscope debut arrived after the pair took advice from Steven Wilson, spent a week every winter exploring sounds and ideas, and borrowed Elbow’s drummer to fulfil their instrumental cinematic vision

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“I became more and more angry. Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch… It can feel so damaging when you’re in the middle of it”: Opeth and the making of Sorceress

Mikael Åkerfeldt on his violent games, hotel balcony prank, soaking a label exec in vodka, and being left to make music his own way

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“Some fans want him to make The Raven That Refused To Sing over and over again. Most know he won’t repeat himself”: Chantel McGregor admires Steven Wilson’s risky approach to music

From his dalliances with pop to taking comedians on tour, blues rock singer-guitarist believes he illustrates a perfectly progressive attitude – and he’s a nice bloke to boot

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The Who announce super deluxe version of Who Are You including 71 unreleased tracks

The news arrives with just 112 days left until Christmas

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“They asked Kate Bush, ‘Why do you write about this stuff?’ She said, ‘Well, I’m not very interesting!’ It’s the same with us”: What Sylosis learned from prog stars including Opeth, Tool and Rush

Frontman of the British metal band and his colleagues accidentally discovered a breadth of influences after feeling uninspired by their peers

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“Do I ever look at Steven Wilson and think, ‘Why is he having top-five albums and I’m not?’ No”: Tim Bowness found catharsis in exploring forced isolation on Late Night Laments

With songs for the lost and the lonely, detailing trauma and loss – but hardly ever his own – Bowness’ intensely personal sixth album is another fine addition to his impressive body of work

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“Geddy Lee once said some very nice things about me. I think it’s about time we connected, if he’s still up for doing something”: Marco Minnemann’s prog world includes Rush, ping-pong and whisky – and he has “something” to thank Queen for

The Aristocrats drummer, who’s worked with Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani, Jordan Rudess and many others, owns up to appreciating Madonna and Kylie

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“Jeff Lynne and Yes are in the music of Radiohead, Sigur Rós and Muse. It’s overlooked in theirs but not in mine. I don’t have the self-validation I’d like”: Steven Wilson is grateful for prog fans’ support, but he wishes others liked him too

Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds

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"Steven Wilson has revealed subtleties hidden for more than 50 years": Deep Purple's Made In Japan - now bigger and better than ever

Who cares if this is three years late? The 50th anniversary of Deep Purple’s very best still blows minds

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Steven Wilson and two former Marillion members walked into a band… What went wrong? The mystery of Pride Of Passion, back to try again after 40 years

The prog group established a reputation for sold-out killer shows in the 80s, but fizzled out without warning. Now the core members have returned with an EP and an album to follow

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Steven Wilson launches new prog rock radio show on SiriusXM

Intrigue: The Progressive Rock Show With Steven Wilson will air monthly on the satellite radio and online streaming service SiriusXM

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“Inventive, unconventional approach sets them apart from lazy assumptions of what prog was doing in the early 70s”: Jethro Tull’s Still Living In The Past

Reissue series revives the 1972 high-class hodgepodge in a generous, never perfunctory style

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"The whole album shimmers with a sonic gloss that's brought it to the 21st century with no loss of historic integrity..." XTC's third album Drums And Wires gets new Steven Wilson Atmos mix

XTC's third album, Drums And Wires, will be released on heavyweight vinyl and CD/Blu-ray in September

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Steven Wilson to release 10th anniversary coloured vinyl double vinyl edition of Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson's fourth solo album, 2015's Hand. Cannot. Erase. will be reissued with new audio that has been remastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios.

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"You want a smack in the face in the beginning." How Ghost Of Perdition went from a concept about Satanism to the defining Opeth anthem

Opeth might've ditched the concept record idea for Ghost Reveries, but Ghost Of Perdition still tells a story

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