by David Weigel
17Ibid.
18Roy Carr, “You Laugh at da Italian Rock, You Sleep-a wit’ da Fishes,” NME, April 5, 1975.
19David McKenna and Ludovic Merle, “ ‘Magma, c’est moi’: Christian Vander Interview Pt 2,” translated by David McKenna, Rockfort, http://rockfort.info/content.aspx?cid=160, accessed January 2016.
20Daevid Allen, interview by Richie Unterberger, RichieUnterberger.com, http://www.richieunterberger.com/allen.html, accessed October 2015.
21Todd Rundgren, interview by the author, summer 2015.
22Ibid.
23Ibid.
24Geoff Brown, “Rundgren: Rock Is Dead!” Melody Maker, July 12, 1975.
25Rundgren, interview, summer 2015.
26Max Bell, “Kansas: Kansas,” New Musical Express, April 26, 1975.
27“Kerry Livgren (Kansas, AD & solo fame),” Progressor: Interviews of Prog, July 1, 2002, http://www.progressor.net/interview/kerry_livgren.html.
28Bruce Pollock, “Kerry Livgren of Kansas,” May 1984, Songfacts, http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/kerry_livgren_of_kansas.
29Frost, “Rush: A Canadian Rush.”
30Paul Morley and Paul Rambali, ”The Rush Phenomenon,” New Musical Express, June 11, 1977.
31Paul Elliot, “Q Classic’s Pink Floyd & the Story of Prog Rock,” July 2005, Power Windows, http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20050700qclassicprogspecial.htm.
32Barry Miles, “Is Everybody Feelin’ All Right? (Geddit . . . ?)” New Musical Express, March 4, 1978.
33Ibid.
34Ibid.
35Paul Morley, ”Power, Pomp, Purity, Pretention, Popularity . . . : The Rush Problem,” New Musical Express, June 24, 1978.
36Geoff Barton, “Rush: This Man Has Nightmares,” Sounds, September 30, 1978.
37Elliot, “Q Classic’s Pink Floyd.”
38Popoff, Contents under Pressure, 88.
39Ibid., 102.
40Ibid.
41Ibid., 103.
CHAPTER EIGHT: FRIPPERIES
1Robert Partridge, “Why I Killed the King: An Interview with Robert Fripp,” Melody Maker, October 5, 1974, ETWiki, http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_in_Melody_Maker_(1974).
2Ibid.
3Ian Dove, “Fripp: After King Crimson, the Apocalypse,” Rolling Stone, December 19, 1974, ETWiki, http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_in_Rolling_Stone.
4Partridge, “Why I Killed the King.”
5Chris Salewicz, “Uriah Heep: Ex-Crimson Bass Man Seduced,” New Musical Express, March 22, 1975, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/uriah-heep-ex-crimson-bass-man-seduced.
6Glenn O’Brien, “Eno at the Edge of Rock,” Interview, June 1978, 31.
7Ian MacDonald, “Before and After Science: Thinking about Music with Brian Eno,” New Musical Express, November 26, 1977, EnoWeb, http://www.eno-web.co.uk/interviews/nme77a.html.
8“Lester Bangs Interviews Eno,” Musician, 1979, EnoWeb, http://www.eno-web.co.uk/interviews/musn79.html.
9“Gurdjieff’s Aphorisms,” Gurdjieff International Review, April 1, 2000, http://www.gurdjieff.org/aphorisms.htm.
10“Robert Fripp Prt 2 Interviewed by Bas Andriessen July 13 1999,” YouTube, October 5, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHdRci7Kqzk.
11Jimmy James, “Kevin Ayers Interview,” Perfect Sound Forever, May 1998, http://www.furious.com/perfect/kevinayers.html.
12Stephe Pritchard and Thos. Brooman, “Interview with Robert Fripp for Recorder Three,” ETWiki, http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_by_Stephe_Pritchard_and_Thos._Brooman_for_Recorder_Three, accessed June 2015.
13Eric Tamm, Robert Fripp: From King Crimson to Guitar Craft (Faber and Faber, 1990), 85.
14Richard Cromelin, “Genesis: Short on Hair, Long on Gimmicks,” Rolling Stone, March 28, 1974, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/genesis-short-on-hair-long-on-gimmicks.
15Chris Welch, “Genesis: The New Face of Gabriel,” Melody Maker, October 26, 1974, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/genesis-the-new-face-of-gabriel.
16Ibid.
17Spencer Bright, Peter Gabriel: An Authorized Biography (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988), 61.
18Kevin Holm-Hudson, Genesis and the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Ashgate, 2008), 2.
19Bright, Peter Gabriel, 63.
20Peter Gabriel, “Gabriel Out of Genesis; Looking Back It Was a Good Decision,” Musical Brick, July 30, 2015, www.musicalbrick.com/gabriel-out-of-genesis-looking-back-it-was-a-good-decision.
21Max Bell, “Former Genesis Star Braves Humiliation of Nude Stunt,” NME, December 27, 1975.
22Paul Myers, A Wizard, a True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio (Jawbone, 2010), 180.
23Karl Dallas, “Here Beginneth the Second Chapter of Genesis,” Melody Maker, September 27, 1975.
24Ibid.
25Barbara Charone, “Genesis: Chapter II,” Sounds, February 14, 1976.
26Tony Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007), 169.
27Ibid., 170.
28Karl Dallas, “Re-generation,” Melody Maker, August 2, 1975.
29Jim Christopulos and Phil Smart, Van der Graaf Generator, the Book: A History of the Band Van der Graaf Generator, 1967 to 1978 (“Phil and Jim,” 2005), Kindle ed., loc. 1875.
30Daevid Allen, interview by the author, November 2013.
31Ibid.
32Ibid.
33Mike Atkinson, “Interview: Kevin Ayers,” Stylus, October 23, 2007, http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/interview/kevin-ayers.htm.
34Jean-Gilles Blum, “The Anti-dinosaur,” Best, January 1979, More Dark than Shark, http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_best-jan79.html.
35Jean-Gilles Blum, “Interview with Robert Fripp in Best,” trans. Louis Courteau, January 1979, ETWiki, http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_in_Best.
36Larry Fast, interview by the author, January 2014.
37Tony Levin, Beyond the Bass Clef (Papa Bear Records, 1998), 52.
38Ibid., 52–54.
39Jon Pareles, “Music without Frontiers: Peter Gabriel,” Musician, October 1980.
40Robert Fripp, “Exposure Re-issues,” Discipline Global Mobile, http://www.dgmlive.com/archive.htm?show=1096, accessed summer 2015.
41Sid Smith, In the Court of King Crimson (Helter Skelter, 2001), 208.
42“Robert Fripp Gets the Call from David Bowie: #LadyChamps15,” YouTube, October 8, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlyJ-v871Og.
43Allan Jones, “Riding on the Dynamic of Disaster: An Interview with Robert Fripp,” Melody Maker, April 28, 1979, ETWiki, http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_in_Melody_Maker_(1979).
44Ibid.
45Richard Buskin, “Classic Tracks: Heroes,” Sound on Sound, October 2004, http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct04/articles/classictracks.htm.
46David Sheppard, On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno (Chicago Review Press, 2009), 256.
47Chris Dahlen, “Daryl Hall: Interview,” Pitchfork, August 21, 2007, http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6673-daryl-hall.
48Tamm, Robert Fripp, 91.
49Blum, “Interview with Robert Fripp.”
50Dahlen, “Daryl Hall: Interview.”
51Ira Robbins, “David Bowie: Heroes (RCA),” Crawdaddy!, January 1978.
52Daryl Easlea, Without Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel (Omnibus, 2014), 176.
53Jim O’Connor, “ELP Split for Solo Exploits,” Circus, November 1974.
54Keith Emerson, Pictures of an Exhibitionist (John Blake, 2004), 275.
55Ibid., 280, 281.
56Charles M. Young, “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Go Broke,” Rolling Stone, July 14, 1977.
57Emerson, Pictures, 291.
58“Greg Lake: Still He Turns Them On,” Ladies of the Lake, http://ladiesofthelake.com/cabinet/musicscene.html, ac
cessed June 2015.
59Peter Sinfield, interview by the author, May 2012.
60Emerson, Pictures, 299.
61Sinfield, interview, May 2012.
62Emerson, Pictures, 296.
63Conversations: Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Trouser Press, 1978).
64Sinfield, interview, May 2012.
65Emerson, Pictures, 187.
66Barbara Charone, “The $2m Show That Never Ends: Emerson, Lake & Palmer,” Sounds, July 2, 1977, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-2m-show-that-never-ends-emerson-lake--palmer.
67Emerson, Pictures, 306.
68Ibid., 307.
69Charley Walters, “Album Reviews: Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Works, Vol. 1,” Rolling Stone, June 2, 1977, http://web.archive.org/web/20071110210624/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/emersonlakepalmer/albums/album/133206/review/5941527/works_vol_1.
70Jason Heller, Richard Gehr, and Dan Epstein, “Emerson, Lake and Palmer: 10 Essential Songs,” Rolling Stone, March 11, 2016, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/emerson-lake-and-palmer-10-essential-songs-20160311/fanfare-for-the-common-man-1977-20160311.
71Al Rudis, “Guess Who’s Back with an Orchestra and 35 Tons of Equipment?” Sounds, May 21, 1977.
72Gordon Reid, “Keith Emerson’s Keyboard Clearout: Exploration,” Sound on Sound, May 1995, http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1995_articles/may95/keithemerson.html.
73Young, “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Go Broke.”
74Charone, “The $2m Show.”
75Ibid.
76Young, “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Go Broke.”
77Emerson, Pictures, 310.
78Smith, In the Court, 208–9.
79Ibid.
80Blum, “Conversation.”
81John Piccarella, “Robert Fripp Thrives on a Loop,” Village Voice, February 13, 1978.
82Ibid.
83Terre Roche, interview by the author, September 2014.
84Suzzy Roche, interview by the author, September 2014.
85Ibid.
86Ibid.
87“Robert Fripp—The Complete Boffomundo Interview 1979,” YouTube, June 24, 2015, https://youtu.be/k96zkPrXQh4.
CHAPTER NINE: DEATH KNELL
1Tony Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007), 332.
2Hugh Fielder, “Then There Were Three,” Sounds, October 22, 1977.
3Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse, 189.
4Ibid., 201.
5“Michael Bloom” Rolling Stone, August 10, 1978.
6Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse, 332.
7Paul Stump, The Music’s All That Matters: A History of Progressive Rock (Quartet Books, 1997), 242.
8Andrea Swensson, “40 Years of Album Sales Data in Two Handy Charts,” Local Current Blog, February 20, 2014, http://blog.thecurrent.org/2014/02/40-years-of-album-sales-data-in-one-handy-chart.
9“Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull Rare 1980 Interview,” YouTube, April 6, 2009, https://youtu.be/Cmjeip14VEE.
10Derek Shulman, interview by the author, September 2013.
11Greg Lake, interview by the author, July 2012.
12Ibid.
13Chris Welch, Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes (Omnibus, 1999), 178–79.
14Ibid., 180.
15Ibid., 194.
16Ibid., 189.
17Fred Deller, “Horn Buggles,” Smash Hits, February 21, 1980.
18Welch, Close to the Edge, 195.
19Ibid., 196.
20Tim Morse, Yesstories: Yes in Their Own Words (St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 71.
21Welch, Close to the Edge, 189.
22Robert Palmer, “Rock: Yes Plays Trio at Garden,” New York Times, September 7, 1980.
23John Mendelsohn, “Yes: The Band That Punks Say Is a ‘No,’ ” Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1980.
24David Fricke, “The New Yes: Still Living in the Past,” Rolling Stone, November 27, 1980.
25Welch, Close to the Edge, 193–94.
26Ibid.
27Ibid., 198.
28Ibid.
29Ibid.
30Ibid.
31Ibid., 200.
32Kim Dancha, My Own Time: The Authorized Biography of John Wetton (Northern Line, 1997), 64.
33Ibid., 65.
34Bill Bruford, When in Doubt, Roll! (Foruli Classics, 1998), 38.
35Anil Prasad, “Creating Imaginary Backdrops,” Innerviews, January 15, 1993, https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114441/http://www.therealallanholdsworth.com/allansinterviewinner.htm.
36Bruford, When in Doubt, Roll!, 102.
37Ibid., 101.
38Dancha, My Own Time, 64.
39Bruford, When in Doubt, Roll!, 39.
40Eddie Jobson, interview by the author, June 2014.
41Bruford, When in Doubt, Roll!, 38.
42Prasad, “Creating Imaginary Backdrops.”
43Olga Potekhina, “John Wetton (King Crimson, UK, Asia),” Progressor: Interviews of Prog, November 21, 2009, http://www.progressor.net/interview/john_wetton.html.
44Dancha, My Own Time, 80.
45Ibid.
46Ibid., 83–84.
47Ibid., 84.
48Shawn Perry, “The Carl Palmer Interview,” Vintage Rock, http://www.vintagerock.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60, accessed June 2014.
49John Wetton, interview by the author, October 2013.
50“Backstage Pass: A Trip to Asia and Beyond with Steve Howe,” Goldmine, January 16, 2010, http://www.goldminemag.com/article/backstage-pass-a-trip-to-asia-and-beyond-with-steve-howe#sthash.TFIoWLV6.dpuf.
51Boo Browning, “Heavenly Pap Out of ‘Asia,’ ” Washington Post, April 23, 1982.
52Jon Pareles, “Rock: Asia Plays Forest Hills,” New York Times, August 22, 1983.
53Dancha, My Own Time, 84.
54Sylvie Simmons, “What This Bloke Is Doing Now,” Sounds, April 15, 1978.
55Steve Hackett, interview by the author, September 2013.
56Rob Hoerburger, “Phil Collins Beats the Odds,” Rolling Stone, May 23, 1983, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-beats-the-odds-19850523.
57Lynden Barber, “Phil Collins: Facing Up to New Values,” Melody Maker, February 7, 1981.
58Ray Coleman, Phil Collins: The Definitive Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1997), 108.
59Polly Dunbar, “Phil Collins’ Ex-wife Breaks Her Silence 35 Years after Split That Inspired Hit ‘In the Air Tonight’ to Deny That She Ran Away with the Decorator . . . and Says He’s Still Cashing in on That False Version of Their Separation,” Daily Mail, April 18, 2015, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3045045/No-Phil-didn-t-run-away-decorator-broke-vows-cashing-divorce-Genesis-star-s-wife-breaks-silence-35-years-split.html.
60Phil Sutcliffe, “Genesis: Help!” Mojo, April 2007, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/genesis-help.
61Rick Wakeman and Steve Hackett, Gastank (TV show), 1983, https://www.reddit.com/r/progrockmusic/comments/3jawf5/rick_wakeman_and_steve_hackett_gastank_tv_session.
62Ibid.
63Hackett, interview, September 2013.
64Dick Tooley, “Interview with Robert Fripp,” August 9, 1979, ETWiki, http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_by_Dick_Tooley.
65Robert Fripp, God Saves the Queen/Under Heavy Manners (Polydor Records, 1980), liner notes.
66Michael Davis, “Records: Bobby Go Loop-de-Loop, Terry Go Loop-de-Li: Robert Fripp, God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners; Terry Riley, Shri Camel,” Creem July 12, 1980.
67Karl Dallas, “Caught in the Act: Robert Fripp, ICA, London,” Melody Maker, October 4, 1980.
68Eric Tamm, Robert Fripp: From King Crimson to Guitar Craft (Faber and Faber, 1990), 105, 106.
69Kurt Loder, “Performance: Robert Fripp Returns to Form—His First Band since King Crimson: The League of Gentlemen, Irving Plaza, New York City,” Rolling Stone, September 4, 1980.
70Adrian Belew, interview by the au
thor, September 2015.
71Richard Grabel, “King Crimson: Robert Fripp’s Chocolate Cake Discipline,” Creem, February 1982.
72Sid Smith, In the Court of King Crimson (Helter Skelter, 2001), 216.
73Ibid., 217.
74Ibid., 219.
75Grabel, “King Crimson.”
76“Jon Anderson Recount’s [sic] His First Meeting with Vangelis and Sings ‘I’ll Find My Way Home,’ ” YouTube, June 20, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItV5h3Arl5M.
77Mark J. T. Griffin, Vangelis: The Unknown Man: An Unauthorised Biography (Griffin, 1994), Kindle ed., loc. 1157.
78Ibid., loc. 1351.
79Daevid Allen, interview by the author, November 2013.
80Ibid.
81Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse, 222.
82Larry Fast, interview by the author, January 2014.
83Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse, 231.
84Daryl Easlea, Without Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel (Omnibus, 2014), 211.
85Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse, 220.
86Ibid., 221.
87Easlea, Without Frontiers, 225.
88Gavin Martin, “Peter Gabriel: Four (Charisma),” New Musical Express, September 11, 1982.
89“Peter Gabriel South Bank Show 1983,” YouTube, September 30, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o21nJYvyZaM.
90Easlea, Without Frontiers, 216.
CHAPTER TEN: NEO-PROG
1Phil Bell, “Marillion: The Dial Inn, Glasgow,” Sounds, May 20, 1982, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/marillion-the-dial-inn-glasgow.
2Ibid.
3Ibid.
4Jon Collins, Marillion/Separated Out: The Complete History of the Band and Its Fans, 1979–2002 (Helter Skelter, 2003), 15.
5“Steve Rothery Interview,” April 5, 2013, Tone World blog, https://web.archive.org/web/20140111120721/http://www.toneworld.co.uk/blog/2013/04/steve-rothery-interview.
6Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 11.
7Ibid., 19.
8Koldo Barroso, “Interview—Diz Minnitt of Marrillion,” Marquee Club, August 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20080724184948/http://themarqueeclub.net/interview-diz-minnitt-of-marillion.
9Paul Morley, “Marillion: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back into the Water,” New Musical Express, April 28, 1984, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/marillion-just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-into-the-water.