Prog Rock Britannia

00:00:07 DRONING

00:04:03 to a nation still dominated by something called the BBC Light Programme.

00:07:53 If you look at the leap in terms of musical vocabulary and sophistication between

00:11:32 And I loved it.

00:15:18 With a bit of sitar chucked in.

00:19:40 MUSIC: "We Did It Again" by Soft Machine

00:23:51 you could, by the end of the sixties

00:27:44 ..then exactly the same passage, everybody playing in unison thing

00:31:11 At that time, we were making quite a large effort to be English.

00:34:35 is a good thing in art, because if you're trying

00:37:49 I was just bowled over, because everything was wrong.

00:41:38 "This once was mine!"

00:45:06 In the '60s, people walked on the moon, in the '60s, there was colour television.

00:48:28 # Not right away, not right away

00:52:19 No sex on stage, and no sex backstage.

00:55:33 that both the major and independent labels happily signed new bands

00:59:11 is now hailed as the ultimate progressive rock album.

01:03:05 The Americans...fantastic at doing that. Brits, crap.

01:06:28 We took ourselves a little serious!

01:09:33 This is the Hilton, is it?

01:12:57 Rick Wakeman may be your God, but let me tell you something - concept albums are out.

01:16:22 The next generation had arrived, determined to overthrow Daddy in the Oedipal battle for supremacy.

01:21:20 which for me, is like a King Crimson line.

01:25:25 ..was...simply because of my dependent psychology.