The Persistence of Prog Rock

By world.pulse on 14. June 2017.   ELP, Genesis, John Cage, King Crimson, Music, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Yes  

In April, 1971, Rolling Stone reviewed the début album by a band with a name better suited to a law firm: Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The reviewer liked what he heard, although he couldn’t quite define it. “I suppose that your local newspaper might call it ‘jazz-influenced classical-rock,’ ” he wrote. In fact, a term was being adopted […]