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This is a timeline of artists, albums, and events in progressive rock and its subgenres. This article contains the timeline for the period 1970–1979. Contents. 1970 – 1971 – 1972 – 1973 – 1974 – 1975 – 1976 – 1977 – 1978 – 1979. See also; References; 1970 Newly formed bands
- Nick Shilton
- JETHRO TULL - Aqualung (Island, 1971) The definitive Jethro Tull album. One of Tull’s strengths was their constant musical evolution, aided and abetted by a bewildering, ever-changing cast of musicians alongside leader Ian Anderson and his long-time lieutenant guitarist Martin Barre.
- YES - Close To The Edge (Atlantic, 1972) Yes’s final album with Bill Bruford suggests that the drummer’s timing was impeccable in every sense, striking out for King Crimson just as Yes reached their peak with this fifth album.
- PINK FLOYD - The Dark Side Of The Moon (Capitol, 1973) Belying the myth that prog is a minority interest, Pink Floyd’s monumental The Dark Side Of The Moon has sold in excess of 35 million copies since its release.
- EMERSON LAKE & PALMER - Brain Salad Surgery (Castle Music, 1973) ‘Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends…’ Containing the monumental Karn Evil 9 suite alongside their marvellous adaptation (or mauling, depending on your point of view) of the hymn Jerusalem, ELP’s fifth album Brain Salad Surgery is their most consistent studio release.
- Aphrodite’s Child
- Tangerine Dream
- Fragile
- Nektar
- Camel
- Kansas
- Spock’s Beard
- Sky
- Babe Ruth
- Premiata Forneria Marconi
Originally a heavy psychedelic band, the Greek band Aphrodite’s Child delivered one of prog rock’s visionary concept albums in the double epic 666, a wild mind trip loosely about a traveling circus show that plays during the apocalypse. Unsurprisingly, famed visual artist Salvador Dali was a huge fan. Aphrodite leader VangelisPapathanassiou had gra...
Along with Kraftwerk, no band did more than Tangerine Dreamto expand the possibilities of the synthesizer. During their heyday they used almost nothing else, and conjured up a remarkable set of soundscapes and atmospheres, improvising freely during live shows.
A modern band with a classic sound, the European-based Fragile worked as a Yes tribute band before they started writing their own material. Their 2022 original release Beyondis close as it gets to a lost Yes album, in the classic mold of a side-long and two half-side tracks. It’s all upped a few notches by the singing of Claire Hamill, whose resume...
Admired by Frank Zappa (who picked them as his opening band in 1973), Nektar expanded the spacier side of early Pink Floyd with a heightened sense of songcraft. Their two peak albums, A Tab in the Ocean and Remember the Future, are as tuneful as they are trippy.
The original Camelwas built around two world-class soloists – guitarist Andy Latimer and the late keyboardist Peter Bardens – and was largely a springboard for their instrumental fireworks. Over time the band became more song-oriented, Bardens departed, and a rotating cast of players came in, including a handful of ex-Caravaners. The one constant i...
Embraced by AOR radio and championed by Don Kirshner, Kansas are often pegged as the commercial side of prog rock. And while there was a lot of heartfelt music on their vintage albums (at least before the original lineup splintered in 1982), they always insisted that the singles success of “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind” were accident...
Reviving classic-model prog rock when it was mostly out of style, Spock’s Beard introduced the talents of Neal Morse, who’d go onto become one of prog’s most prolific and melodically inventive composers (and, eventually, the godfather of Christian-themed prog). The Morse lineup bowed out with its magnum opus, the double epic Snow, but later release...
What do you get when one of the world’s finest classical guitarists decides to form a rock band? You get Sky, which joined the acclaimed John Williams with a lineup including Curved Air’s keyboardist Francis Monkman, and the bassist (Herbie Flowers) who made Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” so indelible. While many prog rockers dabbled in classic...
This early 70s band was unique in a few ways: They had a strong frontwoman, they did prog rock with a strong jazz/blues slant, and their first album cover (First Base) marked the only time Roger Dean ever drew baseball players. Guitarist Alan Shacklock went onto become an 80s producer of note; he and singer Jenny Haan remain in the revived lineup.
This long-running Italian band had a relatively brief, but glorious stint making English-language albums for ELP’s Manticore label. Over those five albums they gradually transformed their gentle pastoral sound into something much harder charging. Their US live album Cook, largely recorded at a Central Park show with ELP, is one of the more explosiv...
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Stackridge: English progressive rock, pop, and folk band who have been described as precursors of Britpop; Al Stewart; Stormy Six: A politically active 1970s Italian band who later aligned with RIO ; Strawbs: British 1970s symphonic prog band with strong folk roots; Stick Men; Still: A late-1990s version of Echolyn
- The Move - Shazam. Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Pop. Critic Score. 100. 1 review. Amazon. iTunes. Music. Spotify.
- Black Widow - Sacrifice. March 0, 1970. Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock. Critic Score 90 2 reviews. Amazon.
- Warpig - Warpig. Hard Rock, Progressive Rock. Critic Score 90 1 review. Amazon.
- Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You. September 0, 1970. Hard Rock, Progressive Rock. Critic Score 90 1 review. Amazon. iTunes. Music. Spotify.
Jun 13, 2023 · Progressive rock, often shortened to prog rock, is a music genre that shot up the charts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The genre combined multiple popular styles of the time, including rock, punk, and psychedelia. The “progressive” title referred to the innovative methods of sound composition and musical styling.
Aug 21, 2013 · Prog rock wasn’t born in the 1970s, but that’s when the genre came of age and reached its commercial peak. Inspired by King Crimson ‘s late Sixties work, a whole new generation of bands such as...
