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Re: Prog Britannia
Dec 29, 2008, 22:52
Cut 'n pasted from the BBC4 website...

Prog Rock Brittania: An Observation in Three Movements
NEXT ON:
02 Jan 2009, 22:00 on BBC Four
SYNOPSIS:
Documentary about progressive music and the generation of bands that were invloved, from the international success stories of Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson and Jethro Tull to the trials and tribulations of lesser-known bands such as Caravan and Egg.
The film is structured in three parts, charting the birth, rise and decline of a movement famed for complex musical structures, weird time signatures, technical virtuosity and strange, and quintessentially English, literary influences.
It looks at the psychedelic pop scene that gave birth to progressive rock in the late 1960s, the golden age of progressive music in the early 1970s, complete with drum solos and gatefold record sleeves, and the over-ambition, commercialisation and eventual fall from grace of this rarefied musical experiment at the hands of punk in 1977.
Contributors include Robert Wyatt, Mike Oldfield, Pete Sinfield, Rick Wakeman, Phil Collins, Arthur Brown, Carl Palmer and Ian Anderson.

Must admit the program title's appropriate !

And prior to the doc itself....

Prog at the BBC
NEXT ON:
02 Jan 2009, 21:00 on BBC Four
SYNOPSIS:
Compilation of some of the greatest names in progressive rock, filmed live in the BBC studios in the 1970s. Includes Yes, Genesis, ELP, Caravan, Barclay James Harvest, Gentle Giant, Family, Atomic Rooster and more.

Heaven and hell in a hour one package by the looks of it.
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