Prog 100 - Le Rock progressif des précurseurs aux héritiers
Frédéric Delâge
Le Mot Et Le Reste2018
ISBN 978-2-36054-153-9
Back cover
For many English musicians of the late 1960s, the Beatles’ *Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band* resonated as a call to savour the most complete freedom. An uninhibited generation then set out to challenge conventions and constraints, giving rise to progressive rock – a genre rich in its wide-ranging influences – rock, classical, jazz, folk – and its open-mindedness. Musicians – Robert Wyatt, Peter Hammill – and bands – Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd – established the album as the preferred format for explorations that were at times virtuosic, often poetic, and always thrilling, and which would spread throughout Europe and the United States.
From the pioneers Procol Harum and the Moody Blues to the heirs Radiohead and The Mars Volta, Frédéric Delâge does justice to the boundless energy and imagination of a genre capable of reinventing itself through often unexpected detours. From his presentation of one hundred records – one hundred facets of a kaleidoscope in perpetual motion – one thing is certain: the adventure of progressive rock is a story that continues to be written in the present.
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