When Mick Jagger knelt to receive his knighthood at Buckingham Palace in 2003, rock lost any pretence of being the soundtrack to revolution. But if the chief Stone is happy to become a member of the ...

A mammoth box set of Daevid Allen’s prog-rock project makes a virtue of its excesses, capturing the band’s monumental strangeness. If Gong seem as if they flew in from another world, there is some ...

Tim Hughes takes a trip to Planet Gong for a chat with the high wizard of space rock –Steve Hillage. GONG are not like other bands. While most groups are content to bang out short snappy bursts of ...

Daevid Allen, a founding member of the influential jazz outfit Soft Machine and the driving force behind the prog-rock group Gong, died on Friday following a battle with cancer. He was 77. “Daevid ...