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In this update we feature: • Stephen Hanley & Olivia Piekarski – Life Inside The Fall • Mike Barnes – A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s • Ed Vulliamy – When Words Fail Stephen Hanley &…

Chris Salewicz – Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

The problem with most biographies is that ultimately any insight they give is mere speculation. Unless the biographer is or was particularly close to their subject, that speculation is just another opinion to be taken no more or less seriously…

Stephen Lambe – Yes On Track

As an offshoot of their Sonicbond music label, Summer’s End Festival supremos Huw Lloyd Jones and Stephen Lambe have recently initiated Sonicbond Publishing, their current crop of releases including a variety of film and sound related titles, including this edition…

Richard Macphail – My Book Of Genesis

I remember, long, long ago, being curious as to the purpose of the happy looking chap in the top hat on the inside cover of Foxtrot, the very first Genesis album I bought, probably around 1974 or ’75. Named Richard…

THRAK by King Crimson – The Complete Scores

Former King Crimson member Trey Gunn has partnered with Gabriel Riccio to create a set of full-band transcriptions of the band’s 1995 release THRAK. They do a good job not only of transferring those recorded performances into written form (working…

Phil Collins – Not Dead Yet

Time and public perception have been neither kind nor entirely fair to Phil Collins. A hugely impressive song-writer, musician, performer and (to a lesser extent) actor, his prolific success in the mid ’90s made him an almost perpetual presence on…

Paul Morley – The Age of Bowie

Back in the days of the tabloid-sized music weeklies, or “inkies” as they were known, for a period from the mid ’70s until the early ’80s the NME was my music Bible. It was The Guardian to the Melody Maker’s…

Opeth – Book of Opeth

Here’s something a little different for TPA. As part of their twenty-fifth anniversary, Opeth embarked on putting together a book, an inside look at the band from the perspective of the people who were there. Now if you’ve followed Opeth…

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