Timeline_of_progressive_rock_(1960–69)
This is a timeline of artists, albums, and events in progressive rock and its subgenres. This article contains the timeline for the period 1960–1969.
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The roots of progressive rock developed from pop groups in the 1960s, like the Beatles and the Yardbirds, who "progressed" rock and roll by exploiting new recording techniques,[1] and by merging electric blues with various other music styles such as Indian ragas, oriental melodies and Gregorian chants.[2] Hegarty and Halliwell identify the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Doors, the Pretty Things, the Zombies, the Byrds, the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd as "not merely as precursors of prog" but "essential developments of progressiveness in its early days".[3] According to musicologist Walter Everett, the Beatles' "experimental timbres, rhythms, tonal structures, and poetic texts" on their albums Rubber Soul (1965) and Revolver (1966) "encouraged a legion of young bands that were to create progressive rock in the early 1970s".[4] Dylan's poetry, the Mothers of Invention's album Freak Out! (1966) and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) were all important in progressive rock's development.[5] The productions of Phil Spector were key influences,[6] as they introduced the possibility of using the recording studio to create music that otherwise could never be achieved.[7] The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (1966), which Brian Wilson intended as an answer to Rubber Soul[8] influenced the Beatles when they made Sgt. Pepper.[9][10]
Folk rock groups such as the Byrds, based their initial sound on that of the Beatles.[11] In turn, the Byrds' vocal harmonies inspired those of Yes,[12] and British folk rock bands like Fairport Convention, who emphasised instrumental virtuosity.[13] Some of these artists, such as the Incredible String Band and Shirley and Dolly Collins, would prove influential on progressive rock through their use of instruments borrowed from world music and early music.[14]
Recordings influential on later progressive rock bands
Date of formation of bands who are later identified as progressive
- Phoenix (1962)
- Omega (1962)
- Sfinx (1963)
- Los Jaivas (1963)
- The Moody Blues (1964)
- The Wilde Flowers (1964)
- Pink Floyd (1965)
- The Syn (1965)
- Nirvana (1965)
- Barclay James Harvest (1966)
- Family (1966)
- Sam Gopal (1966)
- Soft Machine (1966)
- Stormy Six (1966)
- Touch (1966)
- Unit Delta Plus (later White Noise) (1966)
- Genesis (1967)
- Quill (1967)
- Gong (1967)
- Jethro Tull (1967)
- The Nice (1967)
- Procol Harum (1967)
- Supersister (1967)
- Traffic (1967)
- Van der Graaf Generator (1967)
Disbandments
- The Syn (1967–1969)
- The Wilde Flowers (1967–1968)
Events
- David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd in December 1967.
Newly formed bands
Albums
Disbandments
Events
- Syd Barrett leaves Pink Floyd in April 1968.
Newly formed bands
Albums
- Timeline of progressive rock: other decades: 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s – 2020s
- Timeline of progressive rock (Parent article)
- Progressive rock
- Canterbury scene
- Symphonic rock
- Avant-rock
- Rock in Opposition
- Neo-prog
- Progressive metal
- Jazz fusion
- Paul Willis (2014). Profane Culture. Princeton University Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-4008-6514-7.
- Pete Prown; Harvey P. Newquist (1997). Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-7935-4042-6.
- Paul Hegarty; Martin Halliwell (2011). Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8264-2332-0.
- Walter Everett (1999). The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 95. ISBN 0-19-512941-5.
- Martin 1998, p. 47.
- Leas, Ryan (5 August 2016). "Tomorrow Never Knows: How 1966's Trilogy Of Pet Sounds, Blonde On Blonde, And Revolver Changed Everything". Stereogum. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- Martin 1998, p. 53.
- Cotner 2001, p. 30.
- Jackson, Andrew Grant (2015). 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music. Thomas Dunne Books. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-1-250-05962-8.
- Martin 1996, p. 4.
- Hegarty & Halliwell 2011, pp. 54–55.
- Sweers 2004, p. 72,204.
- Macan 1997, p. 15,20.
- Martin 1998, pp. 39–40.
- "50 Albums That Built Prog Rock". Classic Rock (146). July 2010.
- Edward Macan, Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, pp. 19, 657; Richard Morton Jack, Galactic Ramble
- "Timeline". Pink Floyd - The Official Site. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- Povey 2008, p. 115.
- "Album Reviews" (PDF). Melody Maker. 29 November 1969. p. 19. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- Cotner, John Sidney (2001), Archetypes of progressiveness in rock, ca. 1966–1973, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Hegarty, Paul; Halliwell, Martin (2011), Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s, New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-8264-2332-0
- Macan, Edward (1997), Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-509887-0
- Martin, Bill (1996), Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock, Chicago: Open Court
- Martin, Bill (1998), Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, Chicago: Open Court, ISBN 0-8126-9368-X
- Povey, Glenn (2008) [2007]. Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd. Mind Head Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9554624-1-2.
- Sweers, Britta (2004), Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music, New York: Oxford University Press
- Tamm, Eric (1995), Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-80649-5, archived from the original on 5 December 2006
- Snider, Charles. The Strawberry Bricks Guide To Progressive Rock. Chicago, Ill.: Lulu Publishing (2008) 364 pages, ISBN 978-0-615-17566-9 (paperback). A veritable record guide to progressive rock, with band histories, musical synopses and critical commentary, all presented in the historical context of a timeline.
- Lucky, Jerry. The Progressive Rock Files Burlington, Ontario: Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc (1998), 304 pages, ISBN 1-896522-10-6 (paperback). Gives an overview of progressive rock's history as well as histories of the major and underground bands in the genre.
- Macan, Edward. Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1997), 290 pages, ISBN 0-19-509887-0 (hardcover), ISBN 0-19-509888-9 (paperback). Analyzes progressive rock using classical musicology and also sociology.