Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Across Time and Genre

441 Pages·2021·17.663 MB·English

by  Paul Hegarty, Martin Halliwell

Beyond and Before, Updated and
Expanded Edition

Beyond and Before, Updated and
Expanded Edition
Progressive Rock across Time and Genre
Paul Hegarty and Martin Halliwell
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Names: Hegarty, Paul, author. | Halliwell, Martin, author.
Title: Beyond and before: progressive rock across time and genre / Paul Hegarty and Martin Halliwell.
Description: Updated and expanded edition. | New York : BloomsburyAcademic, 2021. | Includes
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
Illustration Credits vii
Introduction: Progressive Rock across Time and Genre 1
Part I Before and During
1 Extended Form 21
2 The Roots of Progressive Rock 35
3 Out of the Garden 54
4 The Concept Album 76
5 Myth and Modernity 103
Part II Transitions
6 Progressive Fusion 129
7 Performance and Visuality 151
8 Social Critique 171
9 Responses to Punk 198
10 Neo-Progressive 219
Part III Beyond
11 The Female Voice 253
12 Post-Progressive 280
13 The Return of Folk 302
14 The Metal Progression 329
15 The Concept beyond Concept 360
Coda: The Future Now 383
Discography 393
Videography 403
Bibliography 404
Index 415
Acknowledgements
The roots of this project lie in the mid-1990s, when we were both living in
Nottingham, facing one of the lowest points in the critical reception of progressive
rock. The realization of the first edition of Beyond and Before in 2011 was a long
time coming, but it benefitted from a number of important studies published in
the late 1990s and from the dramatic resurgence of progressive rock albums and
performances, in their many guises and forms, since the millennium. For this
ten-year edition we have also benefitted from an additional decade of listening
to and thinking about progressive rock across an expanded sound palette, which
gives added musical texture and cultural range to this updated 2021 publication
of Beyond and Before, especially to our third section ‘Beyond’, to which we have
added a new chapter.
We would particularly like to thank Leah Babb-Rosenfeld at Bloomsbury
for being such a supportive and accommodating editor, our universities in
Nottingham and Leicester, and all the artists and bands whose artwork and stills
feature in this book for being so generous with permissions. We would both
like to thank Ben Andrews, Colin Harrison and Michael Hoar for helping sow
the seeds for Beyond and Before in the 1990s, and we want to thank, separately,
a number of friends and colleagues who have helped, either tangibly or
tangentially, to bring both the first and second editions to fruition. Martin would
like to thank Kristen Brill, Nick Everett, Sarah Louise Ewing, Zalfa Feghali,
Pete Groshl, Mark Halliwell, Jonathan Heath, Andrew Johnstone, Rob Jones II,
George Lewis, Catherine Morley, Andy Mousley, Laraine Porter, Joel Rasmussen,
Mark Rawlinson, Phil Shaw, Adam Siviter, Mark Wilkinson and Alex Zagaria.
Paul would like to thank Sarah Hayden, Patrick Crowley, Gary Genosko,
Greg Hainge, Jim Horgan, Kevin Kennedy, Vicky Langan, Dave Murphy, Rory
O’Brien, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Mick O’Shea, Romain Perrot, Alex Rose, Stephen
Roggendorff, Declan Synnott, David Tibet, Albert Twomey and Steven Wilson.
Also Rest and Ten Past Seven.
Illustration Credits
Chapter 2
Still from Pink Floyd: London 1966/1967 (2005) © Peter Whitehead.
Cover of The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord (1968). Artwork
by Phil Travers © The Moody Blues.
Chapter 3
Ian Anderson and Clive Bunker of Jethro Tull performing at the Isle of
Wight Festival, 30 August 1970. Photograph by David Redfern/
Redferns/Getty Images.
The original line-up of Pentangle performing in 1967. Photograph by
Brian Shuel/Redferns/Getty Images.
Chapter 4
Cover art for King Crimson, The Court of the Crimson King: An
Observation (1969). Artwork by Barry Godber © Robert Fripp.
Courtesy of DGM Ltd on behalf of King Crimson.
Marvin Gaye at Golden West Studios, Los Angeles, June 1973.
Photograph by Jim Britt/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images.
Peter Gabriel as the Slipperman, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
tour, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 February 1975. Photograph by
Jorgen Angel/Redferns/Getty Images.
Chapter 5
Cover of Rush, A Farewell to Kings (1977). Art direction and graphics ©
Hugh Syme.
Cover of Hawkwind, Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975). Art direction
Comte Pierre D’Auvergne and Eddie Brash © Hawkwind.
Chapter 6
Miles Davis performing at the Isle of Wight Festival, 29 August 1970.
Photograph by David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images
viii Illustration Credits
Soft Machine outside the Albert Hall, London, 12 August 1970.
Photograph by Keystone/Getty Images
Chapter 7
Adrian Maben directing the four band members for Pink Floyd: Live at
Pompeii, Studio Europasonor, Paris, December 1971. Photograph
by Icon/Getty Images
Chapter 8
Genesis, Selling England by the Pound (1973). Painting by Betty
Swanwick © Genesis
Yes recording Fragile at Advision Studios in London, 20 August 1971.
Photograph by Michael Putland/Getty Images
Rush recording Permanent Waves in Le Studio, Quebec, October 1979.
Photograph by Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images
Kraftwerk performing at the DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen,
27 February 2015. Photograph by PYMCA/Avalon/Universal
Images Group via Getty Images
Chapter 9
Atlantic Records publicity still of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, c. 1970.
Photograph by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Cover of King Crimson, Discipline (1981). Knot logo by Steve Ball ©
Robert Fripp. Courtesy of DGM Ltd on behalf of King Crimson
Chapter 10
Cover art for Marillion, ‘Assassing’ single (1984) © Mark Wilkinson,
www .the -masque .com /shadowplay
Cover art for Marillion, Script for a Jester’s Tear (1983) © Mark
Wilkinson, www .the -masque .com /shadowplay
Cover of IQ, The Wake (25th Anniversary Edition, 2010). Artwork by
Peter Nicholls © IQ
Chapter 11
Kate Bush performing live at the Carré Theatre, Amsterdam, 29 April
1979. Photograph by Rob Verhorst/Redferns/Getty Images
Illustration Credits ix
Chapter 12
Cover of Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden (1988) © James Marsh,
www .jamesmarsh .com
Cover of Talk Talk, Laughing Stock (1991) © James Marsh,
www .jamesmarsh .com
Chapter 13
Cover art for Big Big Train, Folklore (2016) © Sarah Louise Ewing
Cover art for Big Big Train, Grimspound (2017) © Sarah Louise Ewing
Cover of Midlake, The Courage of Others (2010) © Midlake
Cover art for Joanna Newsom, Ys (2006) © Benjamin Vierling
Chapter 14
Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater performing at Fields of Rock,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 17 June 2007. Photograph by Paul
Bergen/Redferns/Getty Images
Cover of Porcupine Tree, Fear of the Blank Planet (2007) © Carl Glover
Chapter 15
Cover of Pendragon, Passion (2011) © Killustrations/Björn Gooßes
Cover art for Monomyth, Monomyth (2013) © Maarten Donders
Poster of Fish’s planned Weltschmerz tour (2020) © Mark Wilkinson
Cover of Elder, Reflections of a Floating World (2017) © Adrian Dexter
Coda
Porcupine Tree performing at Radio City Music Hall, New York,
24 September 2010. Photograph by Claudia Hahn © Porcupine Tree
Cover of Steven Wilson, The Future Bites (2021) © Steven Wilson