Prog Rock: A Noble, But Failed, Experiment

This twit also says:

P.S. Throw in Queen, Kiss and Mott the Hoople as well!

It's painful to see how people writes without knowing

FALSE: Rick was forced to play in ice or not play at all, because the Wembley Arena had been rented to Hollyday on Ice despite having a contract with Rick.

He just had a heart attack and was broken, he need the money for his family

FALSE: His Hammond wasn't particularly big, by the contrary, was quite small and light weighted

 

This idiot probably saw this photo:

Keith used to do this in every concert to play the keyboard backwards.

They could at least inform themselves before they write

Prog was literally formatted to death on radio, giving rise to "classic rock" stations playing just the hits from the big rock bands at the time. I remember clearly in Detroit (a mecca of progressive radio in the late 60s up to the mid-70s) we lost 3 important prog stations, WABX, WWWW and CJOM by the mid-to-late 70s, one disappearing altogether, another changing to Country-Western format, and another adopting a classic rock format. We used to mock the station's call letters, WLLZ, which we called "Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin". A fourth station WRIF, left prog for all intents and purposes and adopted more of a heavy metal format by 1980.

Taken in context, by 1980 there were fewer and fewer stations playing progressive rock (unless it was Yes's Roundabout, Tull's Aqualung or Genesis' sappy Follow You, Follow Me); add in MTV's reliance on new wave and pop crap (or big-haired metal bands later at night), there was nothing left of progressivity; at least, from a profitability standpoint. Hence Yes, Tull, Genesis and other prog bands simply tried to change with the times, and to be charitable, with mixed results.