JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD

For the Manic Street Preachers frontman prog means Rush, Pink Floyd, Russian Circles, and a lost classic album by fellow Welsh rockers, Man.

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“For me prog starts with Rush, when I was about 17. [Manics bassist] Nicky Wire and his brother were already gigantic fans, and – like a lot of people coming late to them – my in was The Spirit Of Radio, the album Moving Pictures and songs like Limelight, where they were almost at an interface with The Police. Pink Floyd’s Meddle had a little influence on our album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours [1998], and I’m a big fan of Russian Circles, Chicago Transit Authority and John McLaughlin – especially on Mahavishnu Orchestra’s The Inner Mounting Flame. And then there’s Man. I was working as a barman in the Newbridge Miners Institute in the 80s and a version of Man played there, and I remember it being a big…

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