Joseph Stanley Williams is an American singer, songwriter and film score composer, best known for his work with rock band Toto, as their lead singer from 1986 to 1988, 2010 to 2019 and again from 2020. He is the son…
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Steve Lukather – I Found the Sun Again
After the excellent Transition from 2012, there is now its successor I Found the Sun Again, already the eighth studio album by Steve Lukather, best known as the founder/guitarist/composer/singer of the incredibly successful American band Toto. The album will be…
View More Steve Lukather – I Found the Sun AgainNeedlepoint – Walking Up That Valley
During the interview I had with Needlepoint founder/composer/singer/guitarist Bjørn Klakegg in 2018, around the release of The Diary Of Robert Reverie, Klakegg indicated that he had only heard of Caravan and the Canterbury Scene at a late stage. He also…
View More Needlepoint – Walking Up That ValleyCrack The Sky – Tribes
Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia in the early 1970s. In 1975, Rolling Stone named their first album ‘Debut Album of the Year’, and the 1978 Rolling Stone Record Guide even compared…
View More Crack The Sky – TribesPerfect Storm
The band Perfect Storm, hailing from the north of Holland, has just released an excellent debut album, entitled No Air. TPA’s Alex Driessen chats with some of the band members about this surprising new album – founder/guitarist Gert-Jan Schurer, keyboardist…
View More Perfect StormPerfect Storm – No Air
When I was asked to write the review of the debut album by Dutch band Perfect Storm, I had to scratch my head: I had never heard of this group before. But the weblink to the collective’s first single quickly…
View More Perfect Storm – No AirGreg Lake – Lucky Man: The Autobiography
In 2017, the long-awaited autobiography of singer/bassist/composer/producer Greg Lake was finally released. Unfortunately, too late for the protagonist to experience himself: “Gregory Stuart Lake died of cancer on Wednesday December 7, 2016 at the age of 69, a few months…
View More Greg Lake – Lucky Man: The AutobiographyGreg Lake – The Anthology: A Musical Journey
Anthology literally means ‘selection’, the best an artist has to offer. Usually a tribute to the artist and, more often, after his/her death. Unfortunately, that is also the case with Greg Lake’s The Anthology: A Musical Journey. It is the…
View More Greg Lake – The Anthology: A Musical JourneyMartin Barre – 50 Years of Jethro Tull
Martin Lancelot Barre (now 74) has been known for years as the guitarist and trustworthy companion of founder/singer/flutist Ian Anderson with the English folk/prog rock band Jethro Tull. It came like a bolt from the blue for the loyal right…
View More Martin Barre – 50 Years of Jethro TullGreg Spawton – Big Big Train
The whole world is turned upside down and the pandemic has had a huge impact on the world of entertainment as well. Much has changed since I last spoke to Greg Spawton, founder, composer and bassist of Big Big Train,…
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