Latest articles by Johnny Sharp
Supergroup the Dead Daisies kick back down south with uneven blues covers album
Lookin' For Trouble was recorded at Fame Studios in Alabama, home of the Muscle Shoals Sound
“The world was my oyster, but when I opened it there was a turd inside… When my wife said, ‘I want half of everything,’ I said, ‘Write me a cheque for 450 grand and you can have half the debt!’” Fish on his three-decade solo career
As the former Marillion frontman released final album Weltschmerz, he reflected on going from the depths of debt and divorce to mountainous creative peaks
Status Quo's classic Live! gets a deluxe, multi-disc makeover
Status Quo's classic live 1976 double repackaged in an eight-CD set with three full show recordings
When true rebels came out as prog fans: Five essential neo-prog albums of the 80s
The second-wave movement didn’t last long – but its bands revitalised the genre with an attitude and energy that’s still being felt today
After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever
Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá
Why Ian Anderson is leading Jethro Tull through a late career productivity burst
Why Ian Anderson is keeping Jethro Tull on a prolifically productive roll
Camel’s Nude and Pressure Points remixed
Camel’s 1981 concept studio album Nude and 1984 live set Pressure Points are remastered and presented in three-disc sets
“Chris Squire was Darth Vader.I was Obi-Wan Kenobi”: Jon Anderson’s time-travelling 1000 Hands
In 2019 he reincarnated 30-year-old demos with former Yes bandmates and a stellar supporting cast, offering positive and long-held opinions to a rapidly-changing world
The 10 best Genesis songs, as chosen by Prog readers
Over 28 years the genre giants released 15 albums, achieving over 100 million sales. It’s unfair to boil their work down to just a handful of key songs – but you did it anyway
The albums that found Ian Gillan riding NWOBHM's slipstream into the charts, together at last
Deep Purple survivor Ian Gillan’s career-reviving vehicle rides again across seven discs on 1978-1982
"I said, “We’re a band, we want to make a record.” He said, “Oi dunno much about records… If you wanted a cowshed, I could probably ’elp yer!” Pendragon's Nick Barrett looks back on their 40-plus year career...
In 2020, when Pendragon released their eleventh studio album Love Over Fear, we grilled mainman Nick Barrett in The Prog Interview
Billy Sherwood, Big Big Train and others paid it forward to help John Holden return to prog
Launching his career in middle-age, he found a huge range of kindred spirits like John Hackett, Sally Minnear and Oliver Wakeman – who understand he doesn’t need to make money, but doesn’t want to lose it either
The armed hold-up that set Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on the road to music
Sold on their older brothers’ counterculture dream of living in outer space listening to the Beatles, Coyne and bandmate Steven Drozd very nearly became full-time drug dealers instead of musicians
Mountain's 1995 collection Over The Top captures the band at their most creative
US blues-rock heavyweights’ best-of, reissued
“They turn on the switch marked ‘metal’ and summon the essence of Satan’s own belch… a new career high”: Vola mix additional textures into Friend Of A Phantom
Scandinavians expand their horizons yet again, but remain in sight of their ethereal, stargazing base
Warren Haynes craft some songs of deep-pile quality on Million Voices Whisper
Allmans/Gov’t Mule man Warren Haynes goes it alone again
An interview with Idles about music, politics, dancing and dogs
Dialling back on the aggressive approach that has helped bring Idles this far, and putting swing to the stomp, Idles' latest album is intended to make you shake a leg rather than a fist
Grand Magus serve up a chest-beating triumph on Sunraven
The tenth album from Swedish metal standard bearers Grand Magus mines some legendary themes
"These performances retain the essential raging-rebel attitude that fired the Detroit firebrands' original incarnation": The MC5's final album Heavy Lifting is a vibrant joint epitaph
The MC5's final album Heavy Lifting is a vibrant joint epitaph
Thijs van Leer reveals his only real regret as Focus roll on in their 55th year
He recalls breaking out of the Netherlands, his relationship with former guitarist Jan Akkerman, and the one album he’d like to remake
“They aim for the arena rock jugular from the outset”: Lesoir’s Push Back The Horizon
Dutch pomp-proggers’ work with storied studio team brings them close to symphonic metal at times, with each song brought to a powerful finish
Glam survivors Sweet bow out in a blaze of AOR
Full Circle is Sweet's first set of original songs since 2002's Sweetlife
Ian Anderson wishes his flute had never gone to space, and neither had William Shatner
His desire to be associated with the space race, first shared on 1970 album Benefit, resulted in disappointment
