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“It’s ludicrous a song like that would go on an album at the height of our fame, but it got the most notice because it was so bizarre”: The Police’s Andy Summers on success, psychedelia and working with difficult people

The multi-faceted guitarist looks back on a career including stints with Robert Fripp, John Cale, Kevin Ayers and others

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Stewart Copeland adds more "in conversation" live dates for 2025

Stewart Copeland brings his Have I Said Too Much? – The Police, Hollywood, and other Adventures back to the UK in September and October next year

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“There are two experiences on offer here – jam band or practitioners of exquisitely-arranged songs”: Curved Air’s Rarities Series box set

Six out-of-print discs span decades, with offerings for completists alongside a particularly pleasing 1972 live performance

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Jon Anderson graces the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus IQ, Alan Parsons Project, Leprous, Pure Reason Revolution, Meer, Dave Foster Band and loads more...

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Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’

As the Police’s biggest hit album Synchronicity is reissued, their drummer answers your questions on punk, his CIA dad and Sting’s ‘magnificent’ pecs

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Curved Air announce six-disc Rarities box set to be released in September

Curved Air's The Rarities Box Set collects their out of print Rarities releases

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“He got all these twists and turns that I thought only John Wetton was capable of”: How Geoff Downes assembled his new Asia line-up

US tour with Focus, Martin Turner and Curved Air presents possibility of completing songs left unfinished after original singer’s death

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“I’m 16 and they were my heroes… They started to laugh because I was also playing the echo parts. I didn’t know they were a special effect”: Obsessive attention to detail was always Eddie Jobson’s superpower

From a backstage performance for Curved Air to being dragged onstage by Frank Zappa and out-complicating King Crimson, the UK violinist has managed to ignore distractions from making music

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"It was very mixed – we could get some lovely nuns as well as rockers": The story of Sky, the least rock’n’roll band of all time

A unique insight into the short career of Sky, a band of musos more interested in their chops than chopping out lines

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"I felt a rage towards him that has taken decades to subside": The mysterious case of the fake Fleetwood Mac

Critically acclaimed and loved by their contemporaries, Stretch were perhaps doomed from the start by their involvement in one of the strangest chapters in music history

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“The rise of a fledgling group, but a collapse of an old one… A forensic timeline of how prog turned into punk”: Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries

Memoir offers eyewitness view as Curved Air and Soft Machine members lived through a changing of the musical guard

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“The media built up this mutual hatred between prog and punk, but really I don’t think it existed”: Sonja Kristina on Curved Air’s impact - and the time she nearly quit

Singer became a sex symbol and inspired Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux... but she also pretended to sleep to avoid interaction at parties

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Curved Air appeal for new guitarist on social media

UK prog rockers make appeal for new six string star on their Facebook page

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Francis Monkman obituary

Multi-instrumentalist with Curved Air and Sky who composed the soundtrack to The Long Good Friday

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Francis Monkman: Film composer and Curved Air co-founder

Monkman was a major figure in the world of popular music, bringing his skills in composition to rock fans and movie-goers alike

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Curved Air founder and film composer Francis Monkman dies at 73

Monkman was described as ‘a significant figure in the world of both popular and classical music’.

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Curved Air and Sky founder Francis Monkman has died, aged 73

Former band mates pay tribute the Curved Air founding member Francis Monkman, who passed away on Friday aged 73

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