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Beyond the Thames: The Story of British Progressive Rock: From Genesis and Yes to King Crimson and Pink Floyd - The Essential Guide to the Golden Age

Beyond the Thames: The Story of British Progressive Rock: From Genesis and Yes to King Crimson and Pink Floyd - The Essential Guide to the Golden Age

Stone, Marcus

Paperback

Series: Beyond the Sound: The Essential Progressive Rock, Book 2

British HistoryPop/RockMusic Reference

ISBN13: 9798183981629
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Beyond the Thames: The Story of British Progressive Rock
Beyond the Sound: The Essential Progressive Rock Series - Volume 2
Second edition, revised and corrected

While progressive rock became a global movement, its most ambitious revolution began along the banks of the Thames.

In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, British musicians redefined the possibilities of rock music. Blending classical composition, jazz improvisation, poetic lyricism, and studio innovation, they created a genre that would influence generations of artists across the world.

Beyond the Thames is a comprehensive and historically grounded exploration of the British progressive rock phenomenon - from its underground origins to its arena-filling peak and lasting legacy.

From the symphonic grandeur of Genesis and Yes to the dark experimentation of King Crimson, the virtuosity of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and the conceptual ambition of Pink Floyd, this volume traces the albums, movements, and cultural forces that shaped progressive rock's most influential scene.

Rather than a fan memoir, this book offers a structured historical and musical perspective - combining narrative clarity with analytical insight, accessible to dedicated fans and serious music readers alike.

A note on this second edition. This edition was rebuilt on a stated method. Every date, line-up, label, catalogue number and chart position was checked against a source before it was written. British chart positions come from the official archive and from nowhere else. Where the sources disagree, the disagreement is reported rather than settled. The book names what the first edition got wrong - 1,313 statements re-examined one at a time, 162 of them found to be false - and sets out, in full, the method built to stop it happening again.

Inside this volume, you will discover:

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