domingo, 14 de junio de 2009

Prog Rock Britannia


At last, I could accomplish some code to embed the full documentary about progressive rock broadcasted some time ago by British BBC Four TV channel and which I stated in this blog on September 2008.

Prog Rock Britannia claims to be the first comprehensive, feature-length documentary about progressive music and the generation of bands that made it – from the international success stories of Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson and Jethro Tull, to the trials and tribulations of lesser-known bands such as Caravan and Egg.

Narrated by Nigel Planer, the film is structured in three parts – charting the birth, rise and decline of a movement famed for complex musical structures, weird time signatures, technical virtuosity and strange – quintessentially English – literary influences.

It looks at the psychedelic pop scene that gave birth to progressive rock in the late Sixties, the golden age of progressive music in the early Seventies – complete with drum solos and gatefold record sleeves – and the over-ambition, commercialisation and eventual fall from grace of this rarefied musical experiment at the hands of punk in 1977.

Contributors include Robert Wyatt, Mike Oldfield, Pete Sinfield, Rick Wakeman, Phil Collins, Arthur Brown, Carl Palmer and Ian Anderson.



There's another version on YouTube of same programme divided in three parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8T904BrY_k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Xt4D8ANGc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh4P-LMfQ8o

Also it is preserved at ProgRock.ning Network and here is a chance to get the full document in one piece and watch it quietly on your PC or television set.

© bbc.co.uk/musictv/progbritannia/

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