We are in a place steeped in history, where the classic "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was created: Abbey Road Studio 2. A large, high room where Giles Martin invited us in mid-April to present his arrangement, which he had tinkered with for almost a year and which proves to be a real sound miracle. The mono treasure, which appeared on 1 June 1967, is now a fully-fledged stereo epic that has been breathed new, dynamic life into with the help of state-of-the-art technology - without harming it in any way. On the contrary: "Sgt. Pepper's" never sounded so intense, so rousing and contemporary. An approach that will also inspire future generations and will probably find far more buyers than the 30 million who have bought it so far.

So far the British Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman and Lee Pomeroy with the South African Trevor Rabin and the US-American star drummer Lou Molino III have sailed close to Germany since their new formation about two years ago. After a US tour last fall, an extensive UK tour and one gig each in Holland and Belgium in spring, we caught the band shortly after the end of a successful Japan off-shoot, their first tour under the name Yes feat. Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman.

eclipsed: Why did you change the band name to Yes feat. ARW now?

Dweezil Zappa is headliner of Zappanale #28. On the occasion of his only German guest appearance this year, eclipsed spoke with the 47-year-old US-American about his father's legacy, the meaning of "Freak Out!" and the dispute in the Zappa Family Trust.

eclipsed: This year you are headliner of the Zappanale, a festival dedicated to the musical legacy of your father since its foundation in 1990. How are your feelings before the show in Bad Doberan?

Dweezil Zappa: Since the beginning of my touring project, I have endeavoured to share a wide selection of my father's music with the public, emphasising his work as a composer and guitarist. That's why I'm particularly looking forward to the Zappanale. I know that the audience in Bad Doberan is very familiar with the amazing qualities of this music. I am sure that there will be an intense connection between me and the audience of this year's Zappanale.

When a band like Depeche Mode moves their stage from the stadium to an intimate auditorium, this is a special situation. On March 17, Depeche Mode will present songs from their new album "Spirit" to several hundred guests in the broadcast hall of the old GDR Funkhaus in Berlin's Nalepastraße and garnish them with older songs. The closeness that the band allows is highly unusual. But it's revealing.

Progressive, soulful pop at its best is what Mike Rutherford and his Mechanics present at their latest studio work "Let Me Fly". The Genesis-bassist/guitarist Rutherford (66) and singer Andrew Roachford (52) are also in a splendid mood when they talk about the current work.

eclipsed: Mechanics has been around for 32 years. The eighth album has just been released. How has this project initiated by you changed over the decades?

THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA - Something Mysterious (4:07)
Album: Amber Galactic (2017)
Label/Distribution: Nuclear Blast/Warner
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In the late seventies/early eighties, The Night Flight Orchestra would have filled arenas and stadiums with their songs. Today "Amber Galactic" is a passionate bow to Journey, Foreigner and (as in the case of "Something Mysterious") Survivor. The piano even brings a little Billy Joel into play.

Twenty Sixty Six And Then existed from 1970 to 1972, a very short period only in the long musical career of singer Geff Harrison. The history and fortunes of 2066AT are highlighted in the eclipsed issue 05/2017. But this is about Geff Harrison, who started with music in the early 60s, moved to Germany and still lives in Hamburg today. His German has a British accent, but is otherwise perfect. It is significant that there is a German Wikipedia entry about him, but no English Wikipedia entry.

Again and again Harrison apologizes in conversation that he may be telling too much. But not a trace of it - highly entertaining, what he gives for the best, and highly sympathetic, how he gives for the best. The result is a portrait of a man who lives music and cannot let it go.

eclipsed: Your Wikipedia entry specifies two possible birth cohorts. 1947 or 1948. You now have the opportunity to tell the truth.

"My flared jeans fluttered as if I were standing outside in the wind," Alex Wilson remembers the effect of his first Black Sabbath concert in November 1969 in Dumfries, Scotland. After that his life would have changed, says the Brit, because he had never heard such heavy powerriffs before. The contemporary witnesses of Sabbath's first gigs in Germany report similar things. Although the jazz part of the group was still immense at that time and Tony Iommi unpacked the flute, it was his ominous guitar riffs that brought heavy metal to the provinces, be it Dumfries, Göppingen, Schorndorf or Schwäbisch Hall.