The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon.

Thirty years after its release, Billy Corgan looks back at the making of The Smashing Pumpkins ’ era-defining big, bold, bombastic masterpiece Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness .

When I turned 14 in 1977, I became a punk and loved bands such as The Slits, 999 and the Sex Pistols. We didn’t really like The Jam – we were very sniffy about them because they were latecomers and we

In 1970, I worked for the first and only time with Peter Bowles in The Ambassador, part of a TV series called Happy Ever After – no, no, not the comedy with Terry Scott and June Whitfield – but a dram

Praise be! Prog’s most devout figure, Neal Morse, gets the gang back together, dials back the sermonising and reaches for the stars on his band’s sparkling first album in five years.

Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE