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Legendary keyboard player Rick Wakeman has announced that his upcoming run of shows in the Americas will be his last American shows.

Voyager guitarist Scott Kay says his dad initially got him interested in Prog Rock. Voyager come under the term ‘Progressive Metal’ today but the genre evolved out of Progressive Rock in the late 60s, early 70s with bands like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson and Pink Floyd.

Francis Monkman, a founding member of prog-rock group Curved Air and classical/rock band Sky, has died at age 73.

Alan White, the drummer for Yes as well as John Lennon’s Imagine album and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, has died at age 72 after a short illness.

Dave Grohl has hinted Foo Fighters will make an “insane prog-rock record” next.

Gordon Haskell, who was the bassist and vocalist in King Crimson in the 70s and featured on their second and third albums, has sadly passed away.

Steve Hackett’s Australian tour will now happen in May 2021.

Former Foreigner singer Lou Gramm is the voice of the new Alan Parson track ‘Sometimes”.

Newly minted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Yes seem to be giving the Grateful Dead a run for the money for the title of classic artist with the most live albums.

Drum legend and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bill Bruford, best known for his work with Yes, King Crimson, Genesis and his prolific solo career, is releasing the definitive boxed set Bruford 1977-1980: Seems Like A Lifetime Ago.

Legacy Recordings is expanding the Alan Parsons Project’s 1982 album Eye in the Sky in celebration of its 35th anniversary of release. The new edition will be out on November 17.

With the 2016 deaths of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, it is now up to Carl Palmer to represent the legacy of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Big man, pig man, ha ha, charade you are, You well heeled big wheel, ha ha, charade you are.

Roger Waters will release his first solo studio album in twenty-five years, Is This the Life We Really Want? on June 2 and, on Sunday, he released the audio for the song, Déjà Vu.

Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett will perform an informal show for a few hundred fans at the Melbourne Guitar Show in August.

Greg Lake, bassist and guitarist for Emerson, Lake and Palmer and a founding member of King Crimson, died on Wednesday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 69.

Genesis will release the 3CD anthology collection ‘R-Kive’ on September 22nd on Virgin EMI / Universal Music Catalogue.

Dream Theater will return to Australia in October for shows in Sydney and Melbourne.

He really should need no introduction, and in a perfect world, Todd Rundgren would be a household name.

Ian Anderson has never been a ‘normal’ rock star. His erstwhile band were named after the inventor of the seed drill and he is generally more interested in ‘Country Life’ than sex drugs and Rock & Roll but he is an enormously charismatic performer and his music has always had real depth and meaning.

Rick Wakeman will return to one of his greatest triumphs, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, via a series of 2014 concerts with the English Rock Ensemble and the Jules Verne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

The Alan Parsons Project will play a series of shows in Europe next month with singer Kip Winger fronting the band.

It only took fans four days to get Pink Floyd’s entire catalogue on the Spotify service.

Jethro Tull will release their career-spanning DVD set Around the World Live on June 25 via Eagle Rock Entertainment.

The body of Peter Banks, the original guitarist for Yes who died two weeks ago, is still being held by the coroner but that is finally about to change.