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A New Day Yesterday

Name: A New Day Yesterday
Author: Mike Barnes

UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s

Mike Barnes,

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A New Day Yesterday

UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s

Mike Barnes,

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Progressive rock, a genre formed out of a creative surge in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies, originated and flowered most spectacularly in the UK. Made by young musicians for a young audience, prog music looked towards new horizons by synthesising rock, jazz, folk, classical and other styles.While prog has always divided critical opinion, in its heyday it had a large and devoted fanbase, and the era's biggest acts from Pink Floyd to Genesis went on to enjoy long-lasting international and commercial success. Although the scene fragmented in the late Seventies, new generations of young listeners continue to discover the unique sounds of prog today.Examining the myths and misconceptions surrounding the genre, music journalist Mike Barnes (Mojo, The Wire, Prog, and author of the acclaimed biography Captain Beefheart) paints a vivid, colourful picture of the Seventies based on his own interviews with the musicians, music business insiders, journalists and DJs, and the personal testimonies of fans of that extraordinary decade.Offering something new for even the keenest of prog enthusiasts, A New Day Yesterday is an entertaining and in-depth study of both the music itself and the cultural conditions and attitudes that fed into, and were affected by, this remarkable musical phenomenon.

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Publisher

Omnibus Press

Year

2020

ISBN

9781787591769

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Music History & Criticism

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: It’s All Too Beautiful: Psychedelia and the British Psyche
Chapter 2: Notes from the Underground
Chapter 3: Hyde Park Incident: King Crimson Part One
Chapter 4: The Drive to 1974: King Crimson Part Two
Chapter 5: Orchestral Variations 1967–74
Chapter 6: Suburban Spacemen: Pink Floyd
Chapter 7: And Did Those Feet…: Ladies and Gentleman – Lemerpal, Aker & Son
Chapter 8: Kick out the Jams to Jerusalem: Genesis
Chapter 9: Swings and Roundabouts: Yes
Chapter 10: Stand up and Be Counted: Jethro Tull
Chapter 11: From a Whisper to a Scream (Including Lighthouses): Van Der Graaf Generator
Chapter 12: “Plus… Tubular Bells!”: Mike Oldfield & Virgin Records
Chapter 13: Sock in Opposition: Henry Cow
Chapter 14: Knights in Beige Terylene on Acid: The Moody Blues
Chapter 15: The Moody Poor Man’s Blues: Barclay James Harvest and Renaissance
Chapter 16: Divertimento No.1: Notes on Drugs
Chapter 17: In Search of Space: Arthur Brown and Kingdom Come
Chapter 18: In the Garden of England: The Birth of the Canterbury Scene
Chapter 19: Can a Wyatt Man Sing the Blues?: Rock Bottom & Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
Chapter 20: Pilgrims’ Progress: Caravan
Chapter 21: Counting out Time: Egg
Chapter 22: All Roads Lead to Homerton: Hatfield And The North and National Health
Chapter 23: The ‘What I Was Doing Was Too Simple for Them and What They Were Doing Was Too Complicated for Me’ Blues: Kevin Ayers and Soft Machine Post-Wyatt
Chapter 24: Divertimento No.2: Notes on Fashion and Youth Tribalism
Chapter 25: Surrey Super Novas: A Brief History of Gracious
Chapter 26: What’s Sauce for the Goose: Camel
Chapter 27: So-Called Journalists: Seventies Rock in the Media
Chapter 28: Divertimento No.3: Funny Foreigners
Chapter 29: A Jazzy Collection of Antiques, Curios and Battered Ornaments: Colosseum, Greenslade, Pete Brown and Centipede
Chapter 30: All You Need to Do Is Sit Back and Acquire the Taste: Gentle Giant
Chapter 31: Ray Charles, the Godfather of Progressive Rock?: Procol Harum, Traffic and Family
Chapter 32: Come All You Rolling Minstrels: Seventies Folk Rock
Chapter 33: Divertimento No.4: Notes on “It”
Chapter 34: She’s a Rainbow: Sonja Kristina and Curved Air
Chapter 35: The Cats in the Grove: Hawkwind, Quintessence, Third Ear Band and the Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill Freak Scene
Chapter 36: Divertimento No.5: Notes on Politics
Chapter 37: Electrick Gypsies: Steve Hillage and Gong
Chapter 38: The Art School Dance Goes on Forever: Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Quiet Sun and 801
Chapter 39: Divertimento No.6: Notes on Festivals
Chapter 40: 1974 – the Tipping Point
Chapter 41: There’s Gonna Be a Storm: UK Punk
Chapter 42: The End of the Century
Acknowledgements
Author’s Source Notes
Bibliography
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