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This year’s MBUK Rider of the Year awards must have been the most star-studded yet! Legends of the sport including MTB trials pioneer Hans Rey, OG freerider Brett Tippie and downhill stars Steve Peat,

Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery embraced his more electronic side this year with Bioscope, his soundscape project with Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning. But he’s not ditching the day job: work is well underway on Marillion’s next studio album, and there’s his long-awaited collaboration with a certain Mr Hackett still to come.

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I’ve got back into mountain biking in my 40s after a couple of decades away, and how it’s changed! Back in the day, bike parks weren’t really a thing and there were a few trail centres here and there,

He’s photographed the world’s biggest rock stars and album covers, and tells Niall Hampton about his latest exhibition

There is an omission from Will Farmer’s article on music and motor sport [Pump up the volume, January]. The Radio 1 Fun Day was held at Mallory Park in May 1975 and remains the most bizarre race meeti