COLIN EDWIN

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon.

Where’s home? The former mill town of Apsley, part of the post-war suburban experiment that is Hemel Hempstead. What’s your earliest prog memory? I grew up in a musical family, but it was a prog-free house. I was introduced to Gong at about 14 while on holiday – I met a slightly older hippie guy who passed me his headphones and played me A Sprinkling Of Clouds. It was another world compared to anything else I’d heard at that point. What was your first prog album? Led Zeppelin’s Presence, on cassette from the local Our Price. I was at a party and someone had put it on full blast in the early hours as everyone was crashed out in the living room, wasted. I bought the album the next day.…

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