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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.

The curious tale of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on tour

Melancholia is the keyboard virtuoso’s first-ever LP of self-composed instrumentals.

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.

I can’t remember exactly which list it was, but one of our ‘favourite test tracks’ rundowns recently made me all misty-eyed about Tom Waits’ signature ballad Martha. I instantly made the comparison wi

AGAINST A BACKDROP OF DISASTER AND DEVASTATION, THE LOST BUS TELLS AN UNBELIEVABLE TRUE STORY. THOSE BEHIND IT DETAIL AN INTENSE FILMMAKING MISSION