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Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue: Roy Harper . Since the mid-60s, the progressive folk singer-songwriter has enjoyed a successful solo career that’s also found him collaborating with everyone from Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel to Kate Bush and Ian Anderson. But he’s never quite reached the commercial heights of his peers. As his Final Tour: Part Two fast approaches, he looks back over highlights from his career so far and teases a brand-new album.

Has anyone enjoyed as many lives as YUSUF CAT STEVENS ? From ’60s pop star to ’70s singer-songwriter, religious convert and now sagacious elder statesman. But what connects all these different threads of his life? “People who don’t change are stuck,” Nick Hasted finds out

Steve Hackett : “Being in Genesis was like joining the upper ranks of the diplomatic corps…”

ALL’S BEEN QUIET for several years on Jake E. Lee’s proverbial Western Front. The guitarist has taken extended breaks before, like the one after the demise of his beloved Badlands in 1993. Still, afte

The Thunder guitarist on the band’s future, his solo career and new album, playing with the Quireboys, songwriting…

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.