1971 – Year of the Prog

Today is the last installment of music from 1971, my fourth. What a year for music! This last podcast deals specifically with what became progressive rock. The seeds of prog began in the mid- to late-1960’s, as “psychedelic” music expanded the horizon of music (or, maybe they just kept playing the same song forever because they forgot how to end a song). There is also a classical influence, as young musicians who were classically trained turned to rock (like Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman).

The apex of the progressive rock movement is pretty much tied to the 1971-1973 era, and 1971 certainly had many defining albums, including Pink Floyd’s Meddle and Jethro Tull’s Aqualung, which was a very grand concept album. Getting an hour’s worth of music was easy to do, so let’s go back 45 years and hear tunes from Focus, Can, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, Curved Air, and Yes.

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