The Progressive Beatles: The Art Rock Hidden in the Canon of the World's Greatest Band (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798650952817)

If the Beatles hadn't written and recorded "A Day in the Life", "I Am the Walrus", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Blue Jay Way", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and other proto-progressive songs - if they'd never cobbled together "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", applied Western tuning to a sitar on "Norwegian Wood", flipped George's guitar on "I'm Only Sleeping", or pieced together the Side Two medley on Abbey Road - then the trails of Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Kansas, ELP and so many others might never have been blazed - or, at least, would have taken far longer to discover. Progressive rock owes everything to the Beatles - everything that defines it began with the Fab Four. There is no Fragile, no Thick as a Brick, no Dark Side of the Moon in the Beatles canon, no "Tarkus", no "Heart of the Sunrise", no "Firth of Fifth" - but without the works described in this book, we'd never have had all those wonderful albums and songs...

Author: Scott Robinson
ISBN-10: 865095281X
ISBN-13: 9798650952817
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2020
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d