There’s always a reason for everything and nothing really happens for no reason. It’s some pre-ordained reality in what’s often a makeshift world and which comes into where you are for some reason and for you to understand why. It’s like, somehow, hearing the Righteous Brothers singing “Unchained Melody”, following the footsteps to where the song is playing and discovering that “Ghost” is showing on a television channel. And there’s a reason for this that goes way beyond prog

Though not living next door to Alice, but next door to the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, this hotel probably knows me better than anyone else other than my ex-wife. Convention Plaza became my new home after my wife and I decided to take a break from each other. That was over twenty years ago and much has happened during that time. And while Stevie Nicks sung how “players only love you when they’re playing”, I guess that I was a player, and certainly playing. It was kid-in-a-candy-st

“Turn off your mind and float downstream”. John Lennon sang that line on “Tomorrow Never Knows”, one of the most experimental and outré tracks built around one chord from the brilliant and sound-changing Beatles’ album “Revolver”. Everything from the album cover design by close friend, bass guitarist and designer Klaus Voorman to the sudden shifting of gears and upping the levels of creativity in their songs- the compositions, the arrangements and the studio experimentations-