The Show That Never Ends - The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

Informationen zum Autor David Weigel is a national reporter for the Washington Post . He has written for Bloomberg Businessweek , Slate , Reason , GQ , Esquire , USA Today , Rolling Stone , Politico , and many other journals. He lives in Washington, DC. Klappentext The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock, epitomised by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Emerson Lake & Palmer, and their successors Rush, Styx and Asia. With inside access to all the key figures, The Washington Post national reporter David Weigel tells the story with the gusto and insight Prog Rock's fans (and its haters) will relish. Along the way, he explains exactly what was "progressive" about Prog Rock, how it arose from psychedelia and heavy metal, why it dominated the pop charts but then became so despised that it was satirised in This Is Spinal Tap and what fuels its resurgent popularity today. Zusammenfassung The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts—and has divided listeners ever since.

Product details

• Authors: David Weigel, Weigel David
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780393242256
• ISBN: 978-0-393-24225-6
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 3 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, 20th Century, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Pop Music, Popular Music