This month in august 1986

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We’re nine songs into a dramatic, blistering set when, midway through Telekon’s touching Please Push No More, a clearly distressed Gary Numan suddenly steps back from the microphone, in tears. Turning

The tour hasn’t even happened yet, but if 2025 is remembered for one thing, it most likely will be Rush announcing they were going back out on the road, with German drummer Anika Nilles, for their R50 shows.

Don’t have a plan. Don’t be cocky. Doing drugs is dumb. He knows what it’s like to be poor. He’ll know when it’s time to quit – and will. These things and more shape his world view.

This month sees the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s death. One of the most influential and pioneering musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries. This intelligent, articulate, witty, endearingly ecce

We bid a sad but fond farewell to the musicians, producers, songwriters and more from the prog world who left us this year. Adieu.