Prog Rock Britannia

00:00:07 DRONING

00:04:09 MUSIC: "Summer In The City" by The Lovin' Spoonful

00:08:07 Where else can you take it except to make it more and more sophisticated

00:11:50 I was in this attic and I put on this Vivaldi record, The Four Seasons or something, and I just flipped.

00:15:49 symphonies. So we're gonna do structures and pieces that last a long time

00:20:23 and who had an Oxford degree, so therefore assumed immediate seniority.

00:24:46 It always seemed like it was a sunny day

00:28:37 MUSIC: "Ride" by Caravan

00:32:15 For us, it was a kind of escape from a totally pre-determined career choice, if you like.

00:35:24 But this was the dawning of the age of the highly-accomplished player.

00:39:10 long greasy black hair, you could smell 'em from the back row

00:42:55 and people wanted that in their music.

00:46:48 "By golly, our next record's going to take three months and a day if it kills us!"

00:50:38 His was more like a probe. An instrument of science, not sex.

00:53:56 We never used to have females come and see us.

00:57:22 Rock was just from the gut, I think.

01:01:21 A shy Oldfield couldn't deal with the attention, and took to the hills.

01:04:55 If there was something that was available

01:08:53 It was all part of what we did

01:11:56 # And wept as they led him away to a cage

01:15:25 but that wasn't what punk was about. Punk was all about NOT being musical.

01:20:01 in a story that was narrated, not even sung, became their swansong.

01:24:50 for people to keep thinking that life was easy because of that.

18:19:06 Europe's aflame, the Paris Riots.