Category: Around Prog
Around Prog is a space reserved for editorials concerning the main progressive artists of the 70s, inside it can contain complete biographies, articles on specific topics, anecdotes and curiosities or particular events related to the genre and the period.
[Around Prog #9] Le Orme
Le Orme are one of the main groups of Italian Progressive Rock and one of the best known also abroad….
[Around Prog #14] Gong pt. II
THE CONSECRATION Between 1973 and 1974, with the contribution of the new guitarist Steve Hillage, they recorded the trilogy “Radio…
[Around Prog #13] Gong pt. I
Gestation and Pre-Gong [1961-1967] Daevid Allen, founder and leading member of Gong, was born in Melbourne, Australia on January 13,…
[Around Prog #12] Uriah Heep pt. II
The Post-Byron With the release of the two elements Wetton and Byron, it was necessary to find substitutes, in the…
[Around Prog #11] Uriah Heep pt. I
[The Origins] It all began in 1967 when guitarist Mick Box, aged just 19, decided to form a band called…
[Around Prog #7] Caravan
In 1964 Richard Sinclair, only 16 years old, together with the brothers Brian and Hugh Hopper, formedĀ The Wilde Flowers, the…
[Around Prog #6] Procol Harum
Procol Harum was born from the ashes of Paramount, a Rhythm’n’Blues band from the 1960s, disbanded in 1966. The leader…
[Around Prog #4] Birth Control
Birth Control was formed in 1966 in Berlin, from the ashes of two other bands: The Earls and The Gents….
[Around Prog #3] Renaissance
The English band was founded in 1969 by the dissolution of the Yardbirds, when Keith Relf and Jim Mccarthy formed…
[Around Prog #1] Atomic Rooster
After the split-up of the Psychedelic Rock band “The Crazy World of Arthur Brown” in 1969, Vincent Crane (Keyboards) and…