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A 20-PAGE CELEBRATION

Buckle up and prepare to be taken on the ride of a lifetime. Steven Wilson is back with The Overview , an album that even he admits is prog. Comprising two tracks, the conceptual suite includes lyrics from XTC’s Andy Partridge and visuals that are out of this world. Prog visits the musician at home to get the lowdown.

With Iron Maiden celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, we talk to all the members of the band and look back over the successes, trials, tribulations, thrills, spills and genre-defining records of the longest-running and arguably greatest heavy metal band of them all.

No-shows, bomb scares, police intervention… GN’R’s Use Your Illusion tour was one of the most volatile to have ever hit Europe, and one that remained shrouded in mystery. Hammer ’s sister mag, Classic Rock , tracked down the people who were there to get the full inside story

After INXS’s first four albums, the band were ready to step up – but they were acutely aware that nobody knew quite what to make of them. They’d had one Top 30 hit in the US, 1982’s The One Thing, and