Paddy McAloon is hooting with laughter. “That’s the best question I’ve had in this entire round of interviews,” he says cheerily. “It’s so flattering and appalling at the same time.” Did you know with ...

In 1992, Prefab Sprout leader Paddy McAloon envisioned an album about God and his manifestation through music and love. He never got around to recording it with his bandmates, but this lush, ...

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.

Prefab Sprout's second album, Steve McQueen, was originally released in the U.S. under the title Two Wheels Good. Back in the summer of 1985, I was a DJ at an alternative rock station in the Baltimore ...

Since debuting in 1982 with the dreamy single “Lions In My Own Garden,” English singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon and his band Prefab Sprout have distinguished themselves from their UK contemporaries by ...