Procol Harum started off as a session group to record the Gary Brooker (ex-The Paramounts) and Keith Reid (an ex-legal clerk) composed song A Whiter Shade…
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Rush began playing hard rock/heavy metal in Toronto bars. After financing a debut LP themselves, Neil Peart (an ingenious lyricist) replaced the band’s original drummer,…
Named after a German town, Sindelfingen were a British prog rock band who played only a handful of gigs and released a solitary privately-pressed album…
Soft Machine formed in Canterbury, Kent, in 1966 with a line-up of Daevid Allen (guitar), Mike Ratledge (keyboards), Kevin Ayers (bass) and Robert Wyatt (drums).…
Dutch band Supersister’s heady brand of prog owed much to the Canterbury Scene. Their debut LP, Present From Nancy (1970), was freaky, percussive and epic – like Soft…
The 1968 self-titled album by Touch – featuring Don Gallucci (ex-Kingsmen organist and future Stooges producer) – was a wild and glorious explosion of keyboard-led proto-prog that foreshadowed…
Formed in 1967, Peruvian band Traffic Sound – an exalted name in psych and prog rock circles – recorded four stunning albums in their short but brilliant…
Uriah Heep formed in 1970 with keyboard player Ken Hensley, guitarist Mick Box, and vocalist David Byron. Byron and Box had previously been with the…
One of the most intense and extreme groups of the 70s Prog Rock era, Van Der Graaf Generator were ever on the verge of collapse. Constant tensions…
Wishbone Ash formed in London in 1969 and released their self-titled debut album in 1970. By 1971 they were Melody Maker’s brightest hopes for the coming…
Art-rock group Yes formed in 1968 with Jon Anderson on vocals, Peter Banks on guitar, Tony Kaye on organ, Chris Squire on bass and Bill…