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A key figure in 70s pub rock is back with more songs “about politics or idiots with fingers on buttons”.

The band’s original 80s singer returns with a new line-up and the same drive and ambition.

With solo projects, other bands and a massive Creed reunion between them, there were whispers that Alter Bridge might be on the way out. Instead they regrouped, faced the dark side of our times, put their foot on the gas and recorded a brilliant new album.

With Status Quo now history and Francis Rossi enjoying his An Audience With tours, a new album was far from his mind. But one thing led to another, and…

BY THE SUMMER of 1974, King Crimson had reached critical mass. Albums like In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973) and Starless and Bible Black (early 1974) had seen th