The mojo interview

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.

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.

On his latest solo album, Jakko MJakszyk has embarked on a very personal journey after a period of self-doubt. Son Of Glen is a companion piece of sorts to his acclaimed memoir, Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? , on which he explores themes of identity and familial bonds. He tells Prog about “the proggiest thing” he’s ever done and what the future might hold for King Crimson.

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

D avid Bowie’s first album of the 1980s was a milestone record for many reasons. It was his last to be co-produced with collaborator Tony Visconti for more than 20 years, his swansong for RCA and for

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