THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW…

In January 2009, Bill Bruford announced his retirement from performing and recording. From Yes and King Crimson to UK and Earthworks, the highly respected drummer with an extremely distinctive sound has never allowed his career to stand still. Two decades later, Bruford has re-emerged with a six-CD career retrospective called Making A Song And Dance. He tells Prog about developing a thick skin, suffering for his art and why he doesn’t like looking backwards.

Sid Smith

When Bill Bruford settles down in front of his computer to talk to Prog, he is, of course, precisely on time. He’s sat in his home office in Surrey and his Zoom backdrop displays an undulating range of rugged fells speckled with grass and scree, nestling under a blue sky. Attired in a smartly pressed country check shirt and a practical-looking gilet, he looks very much like a doctor about to undertake a consultation with a nervous patient. It’s worryingly easy to imagine this genial 72-year-old, who was inducted into the Rock & Rock Hall Of Fame in 2017, leaning forward and starting the conversation with a polite but firm, “Now, what seems to be the trouble?” “I like to upset things though not all the time. But there will…

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