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Citizens of Hope and Glory - The Story of Progressive Rock (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Citizens of Hope and Glory - The Story of Progressive Rock (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Discovery Miles 4 610
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Created in the late 1960s, fashionable in the early 1970s and hated
in the 1980s, Progressive Rock has a colourful and eventful story.
Many of the genre's main protagonists, including Genesis, Yes, King
Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, remain as popular as ever,
while lesser-known names like Camel, Caravan, Renaissance, Van der
Graaf Generator and Gentle Giant retain cult status. In this
completely revised and updated edition, Stephen Lambe guides the
reader through the early years as the music developed out of the
British Progressive Music boom of the late 1960s into its own
genre, and reached full maturity in the early 1970s. He also
discusses how the music was received and developed outside the UK,
particularly in the USA and Europe. Received wisdom has it that
punk swept Progressive Rock away in the late 1970s, yet the genre
never died. An early 1980s revival, spearheaded by major label
signings Marillion, IQ and Pallas, burned brightly but fell away
sharply later in the decade. However, in the early 1990s, the
movement began to re-establish itself, largely below the radar, led
by Swedish band The Flower Kings and American group Spock's Beard.
The rise of the internet and the decline of the worldwide pop
industry allowed niche music - as Progressive Rock had now become -
to flourish once again in the new millennium. Stephen Lambe has
been co-promoter of the Summer's End Progressive Rock festival
since 2006. He helps promote Welsh band Magenta, and is Secretary
of the Classic Rock Society, whose patrons include Steve Hackett
and Roger Hodgson. He writes regularly for the magazine Rock
Society.
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