After leaving Yes, Rick Wakeman’s first solo work ... its enduring reputation as a high-water mark of instrumental prog rock achievement. Inspired by a biography of Henry VIII which Wakeman ...

The massive career-spanning anthology explores the Canadian band’s evolution and offers previously-unreleased tracks.

Playing with Bowie and Sabbath,. boozing with Keith Moon, hanging out with Lennon – Rick Wakeman has done it all ...

Prog-rock icon Rick Wakeman performed a rendition of his track Gone But Not Forgotten - which he also played at the memorial of former Countdown host Richard Whiteley. Wakeman said in a post on X on ...

When Prog caught up with Cousins at his home in ... How did you hook up with Rick Wakeman? We’d been asked to do a session for the John Peel show and we wanted to do a piece called The Battle, ...

I guess prog rock began with Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Then again, that was the spring of '71 and King Crimson's debut had come out in the fall of '69. Then again, the first Nice album ...

He’s a control freak’: 12 bandmates who hate each other, from Pink Floyd to Oasis - Sometimes a petty disagreement can become ...

Featuring members of Yes, ELP and King Crimson, Asia were billed as a prog rock supergroup but kept it concise, to enormous success ...

Part of what makes prog-rock albums such a delight is how forward-thinking many of them are. At least, that’s definitely the case for progressive rock albums that came out decades ago during the ...

Released in 1971, the African-tinged record pioneered what would become world music, and took prog into fresh new waters too.

Developing a unique one-finger plucking style, he combined driving rock intensity with remarkable technical precision, two vital elements that helped shape Rush’s influential approach to progressive ...

Here is the best progressive rock/metal album of each year since 1983. Given its penchant for bizarre concepts, vast track lengths and intimidatingly complex musicianship, it’s little wonder why ...