In the wake of Peter Gabriel’s departure, GENESIS faced an existential question: carry on, or call it a day? Looking back 50 years, band members revisit the fraught months after their first frontman’s exit – and the creative surge that set the scene for one of rock’s most improbable second acts. “The band was meant to be dead and buried,” learns Peter Watts. “But we refused to lay down and die.”

What’s it like to be in a band at the very beginning of their career – only to leave before things take off? We ask early members of Deftones, Papa Roach, Trivium and more

Following Richey Edwards’ disappearance and the “commercial disaster” of The Holy Bible , the MANIC STREET PREACHERS were told that this is the end. Instead, they roared back with an unassailable anthem heralding one of the biggest British albums of the ’90s. Sam Richards celebrates 30 years of Everything Must Go : “It was the most spectacular feeling,” says Nicky Wire. “That period when you go over the top...”

Big Big Train cofounder Gregory Spawton on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

Want to feel old? As Super Furry Animals gear up to play their first live shows in a decade, they’ve found themselves embarking on a process that feels as close to archaeology as rock and roll. “A lot

Best known for fronting It Bites during their 80s heyday, Francis Dunnery has gone back to his Cumbrian roots on his latest solo album, England’s Tales Of The Council House Kid . Prog learns the story behind it, finds out about his future with John Payne’s Asia, and discovers his 40th-anniversary plans for It Bites.