Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

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

Every lover of late 20th-century rock will have been saddened by the death of Chris Rea. He sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, with massive hits such as Fool (If You Think It’s Over) and Driv

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.

‘We’re going to have a tonal centre and tap our feet, and that’s the way it is.’ Steve Reich is in full flow, talking to me from his home in New York. ‘The big break, the knife down the line, was betw

Singer/guitarist/ Time Lord Peter Capaldi on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.