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The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

The great modernist composer Luciano Berio shares his surname with a best-selling Italian brand of olive oil, which seems apt as he was a very Italian sort of modernist. He loved the singing voice, he

RIDE ON TIME BLACK BOX (DECONSTRUCTION) Was anyone, in the final months of 1989, really fooled by the full-throated vocals coming out of the mouth of Katrin Quinol when Black Box performed this huge h

Ah, 1985: heart of the decade of Cold War superpowers and Dayglo socks. The year of Marty McFly and Back to the Future – “You made a time machine – out of a DeLorean?” Dodgy Sylvester Stallone action

After the success of their Space Ritual tour, Hawkwind were keen to explore new possibilities for their music. The result was the eclectic but much-loved Hall Of The Mountain Grill , now released as a nine-disc box set including three live shows from 1974. Prog looks back on the making of a classic.

A 19th-century Milanese villa has been given a new lease of life – revamped to show the creative side of an avid art collector and his family