A New Day Yesterday
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A New Day Yesterday

UK Progressive Rock and the 1970s

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A New Day Yesterday

UK Progressive Rock and the 1970s

About this book

An entertaining, definitive and in-depth study of prog rock, with a new cover and a foreword by Steve Hackett (Genesis).Progressive rock, a genre formed out of a creative surge in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies. 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 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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Table of contents

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