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Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music [10] that primarily developed in the United Kingdom [1] through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid 1970s.
The Progressive Rock Files Burlington, Ontario: Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc (1998), 304 pages, ISBN 1-896522-10-6 (paperback). Gives an overview of progressive rock's history as well as histories of the major and underground bands in the genre. Macan, Edward. Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture.
The Progressive Rock Files Burlington, Ontario: Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc (1998), 304 pages, ISBN 1-896522-10-6 (paperback). Gives an overview of progressive rock's history as well as histories of the major and underground bands in the genre. Macan, Edward. Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture.
The Mellotron became a key instrument in progressive rock. King Crimson bought two Mellotrons when forming in 1969. [47] They were aware of Pinder's contributions to the Moody Blues and did not want to sound similar, but concluded there was no other way of generating the orchestral sound. [48]
Proto-prog (short for proto-progressive [1]) is the earliest work associated with the first wave of progressive rock music, [2] [3] known then as "progressive pop". [4] Such musicians were influenced by modern classical and other genres usually outside of traditional rock influences.
Marillion became an even more intriguing band when Steve Hogarth replaced former lead singer Fish. They expanded their sound, flirted with alternative rock, and in 2004 released Marbles, the best ...
Rock was the most popular genre of music in the U.S. and much of the Western world from the 1950s to the 2010s. Rock musicians in the mid-1960s began to advance the album ahead of the single as the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption, with the Beatles at the forefront of this development.
Post-progressive" is a term invented to distinguish a type of rock music from the persistent "progressive rock" style associated with the 1970s. [40] In the mid to late 1970s, progressive music was denigrated for its assumed pretentiousness, specifically the likes of Yes, Genesis, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. [41]