When I got the double-disc "Columbia Legacy" edition of Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen in the mail last week, my first thought was, "Great! One for Permanent Records!" But a few complications arose.

ATRIBUTE night in celebration of the life and works of Durham based singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon and his band Prefab Sprout, will come to Newcastle later this month in support of St Oswald’s ...

“My relationship with prog is a complex thing, which has to do with my feelings about the 70s,” muses Paddy McAloon. “That period was very, very interesting. I reject the whole typical BBC documentary ...