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133-606: A Momentary Lapse of Reason is the 13th studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd , released in the UK on 7 September 1987 by EMI and the following day in the US on Columbia . It was recorded primarily on the converted houseboat Astoria , belonging to the guitarist, David Gilmour . A Momentary Lapse of Reason was the first Pink Floyd album recorded without the founding member Roger Waters , who departed in 1985. The production

266-525: A concept album . It includes writing contributions from outside songwriters, following Gilmour's decision to include material once intended for his third solo album. The album was promoted with three singles: the double A-side " Learning to Fly " / " Terminal Frost ", " On the Turning Away ", and " One Slip ". A Momentary Lapse of Reason received mixed reviews; some critics praised the production and instrumentation but criticised Gilmour's songwriting, and it

399-549: A public address system , and the resulting mix was then recorded in surround sound. The sessions were interrupted by the escalating disagreement between Waters and Pink Floyd over who had the rights to the Pink Floyd name. O'Rourke, believing that his contract with Waters had been terminated illegally, sued Waters for £25,000 of back-commission. In a late-1986 board meeting of Pink Floyd Music Ltd (Pink Floyd's clearing house for all financial transactions since 1973), Waters learnt that

532-466: A "Gilmour solo album in all but name". In 2016, Nick Shilton chose A Momentary Lapse of Reason as one of the "Top 10 Essential 80s Prog Albums" for Prog . He wrote: "While it's not a patch on the Floyd masterworks of the 70s, it merits inclusion here. The ironically titled 'Signs of Life' is an instrumental prelude for 'Learning to Fly' which showcases Gilmour's guitar, while the pulsating 'The Dogs of War'

665-484: A European, and especially British, phenomenon. Few American bands engaged in it, and the purest representatives of the genre, such as Starcastle and Happy the Man , remained limited to their own geographic regions. This is at least in part due to music industry differences between the US and Great Britain. Cultural factors were also involved, as US musicians tended to come from a blues background, while Europeans tended to have

798-528: A bank account had been opened to deal exclusively with all monies related to "the new Pink Floyd project". He immediately applied to the High Court to prevent the Pink Floyd name from being used again, but his lawyers discovered that the partnership had never been formally confirmed. Waters returned to the High Court in an attempt to gain a veto over further use of the band's name. Gilmour's team responded by issuing

931-406: A change from previous Pink Floyd albums was mostly recorded with a 32-track ProDigi digital recorder apart from the drum tracks, which were recorded with a 24-track analogue machine. This trend of using new technologies continued with the use of MIDI synchronisation, aided by an Apple Macintosh computer. Ezrin suggested incorporating rap , an idea dismissed by Gilmour. After agreeing to rework

1064-474: A clause that prevented him rejoining the band, and "consequently we had to be careful about what constituted being a member". A Momentary Lapse of Reason was released in the UK and US on 7 September 1987. It went straight to number three in both countries, held from the top spot in the US by Michael Jackson 's Bad and Whitesnake 's self-titled album . It spent 34 weeks on the UK Albums Chart . It

1197-399: A continuous aesthetic movement between formalism and eclecticism ". Cotner also says that progressive rock incorporates both formal and eclectic elements, "It consists of a combination of factors – some of them intramusical ('within'), others extramusical or social ('without')." One way of conceptualising rock and roll in relation to "progressive music" is that progressive music pushed

1330-443: A diversity of loosely associated style codes. When the "progressive" label arrived, the music was dubbed " progressive pop " before it was called "progressive rock", with the term "progressive" referring to the wide range of attempts to break with standard pop music formula. A number of additional factors contributed to the acquired "progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic; technology was harnessed for new sounds; music approached

1463-615: A following. Only Marillion and Saga experienced international success. Neo-prog bands tended to use Peter Gabriel -era Genesis as their "principal model". They were also influenced by funk , hard rock and punk rock . The genre's most successful band, Marillion, suffered particularly from accusations of similarity to Genesis, although they used a different vocal style, incorporated more hard rock elements, and were very influenced by bands including Camel and Pink Floyd . Authors Paul Hegarty and Martin Halliwell have pointed out that

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1596-599: A foundation in classical music. North American progressive rock bands and artists often represented hybrid styles such as the complex arrangements of Todd Rundgren's Utopia and Rush , the eclectic psychedelia of Spirit , the hard rock of Captain Beyond , the Southern rock -tinged prog of Kansas , the jazz fusion of Frank Zappa and Return to Forever , and the eclectic fusion of the all-instrumental Dixie Dregs . British progressive rock acts had their greatest US success in

1729-702: A gross audience of 4.25 million fans, and box office receipts of more than £60 million (not including merchandising). The tour included a free performance on a barge floating on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Note Pink Floyd Additional personnel Technical personnel Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog )

1862-636: A handful of groups purposely emulated or referenced classical music. Writer Emily Robinson says that the narrowed definition of "progressive rock" was a measure against the term's loose application in the late 1960s, when it was "applied to everyone from Bob Dylan to the Rolling Stones ". Debate over the genre's criterion continued to the 2010s, particularly on Internet forums dedicated to prog. According to musicologists Paul Hegarty and Martin Halliwell, Bill Martin and Edward Macan authored major books about progressive rock while "effectively accept[ing]

1995-409: A harder sound in the style of arena rock . Few new progressive rock bands formed during this era, and those who did found that record labels were not interested in signing them. The short-lived supergroup U.K. was a notable exception since its members had established reputations; they produced two albums that were stylistically similar to previous artists and did little to advance the genre. Part of

2128-452: A high degree of commercial success during the early 1970s. Between them, the bands Jethro Tull , ELP , Rush , Yes , and Pink Floyd had four albums that reached number one in the US charts, and sixteen that reached the top ten. Mike Oldfield 's Tubular Bells (1973), an excerpt of which was used as the theme for the film The Exorcist , sold 16 million copies. Progressive rock came to be appreciated overseas, but it mostly remained

2261-398: A later interview, Waters said the album had "a couple of really nice tunes" and chord sequences and melodies he would have retained had he been involved. In Q , Phil Sutcliffe wrote that it "does sound like a Pink Floyd album" and highlighted the two-part "A New Machine" as "a chillingly beautiful vocal exploration" and a "brilliant stroke of imagination". He concluded: " A Momentary Lapse

2394-677: A line in the chorus of " One Slip ". For the first time since 1977's Animals , designer Storm Thorgerson was employed to work on a Pink Floyd studio album cover . His finished design was a long river of hospital beds arranged on a beach, inspired by a phrase from " Yet Another Movie " and Gilmour's vague hint of a design that included a bed in a Mediterranean house, as well as "vestiges of relationships that have evaporated, leaving only echoes". The cover shows hundreds of hospital beds assembled in July 1987 on Saunton Sands in North Devon , where some of

2527-563: A long time in the future, and it'll probably be more for, just because of feeling of some obligation that we ought to do it, rather than for any enthusiasm. Nick Mason, In the Studio with Redbeard (1994) After drummer Nick Mason attended one of Waters' London performances in 1985, he found he missed touring under the Pink Floyd name. His visit coincided with the release in August of his second solo album, Profiles , on which Gilmour sang. With

2660-493: A meeting in Hampstead he was recruited as a paid musician on a weekly wage of $ 11,000. Gilmour said in an interview that Wright's presence "would make us stronger legally and musically". However, his contributions were minimal; most of the keyboard parts had already been recorded, and so from February 1987 Wright played some background reinforcement on a Hammond organ , and a Rhodes piano , and added vocal harmonies. He also performed

2793-516: A meeting in November 1986, told Gilmour and Ezrin that the music "doesn't sound a fucking thing like Pink Floyd". By the end of that year, Gilmour had decided to make the material into a Pink Floyd project, and agreed to rework the material that Ralbovsky had found objectionable. You can't go back ... You have to find a new way of working, of operating and getting on with it. We didn't make this remotely like we've made any other Floyd record. It

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2926-433: A new project. Months previously, keyboardist Jon Carin had jammed with Gilmour at his Hook End studio , where he composed the chord progression that became " Learning to Fly ", and so was invited onto the team. Gilmour invited Bob Ezrin (co-producer of 1979's The Wall ) to help consolidate their material; Ezrin had turned down Waters' offer of a role on the development of his new solo album, Radio K.A.O.S. , saying it

3059-494: A newfound sophisticated musicality and ambitious lyricism in black pop. Among these musicians were Sly Stone , Stevie Wonder , Marvin Gaye , Curtis Mayfield , and George Clinton . In discussing the development, Bill Martin cites 1970s albums by Wonder ( Talking Book , Innervisions , Songs in the Key of Life ), War ( All Day Music , The World Is a Ghetto , War Live ), and

3192-411: A nurse making one of the beds. To emphasise that Waters had left the band, the inner gatefold featured a photograph of just Gilmour and Mason shot by David Bailey . Its inclusion marked the first time since Meddle (1971) that a group photo had been used in the artwork of a Pink Floyd album. Wright was represented only by name, on the credits. According to Mason, Wright's leaving agreement contained

3325-434: A prescient notion of new wave and punk. New wave, which surfaced around 1978–79 with some of the same attitudes and aesthetic as punk, was characterised by Martin as "progressive" multiplied by "punk". Bands in the genre tended to be less hostile towards progressive rock than the punks, and there were crossovers, such as Fripp and Eno's involvement with Talking Heads , and Yes' replacement of Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson with

3458-428: A press release affirming that Pink Floyd would continue to exist; however, Gilmour told a Sunday Times reporter: "Roger is a dog in the manger and I'm going to fight him, no one else has claimed Pink Floyd was entirely them. Anybody who does is extremely arrogant." Waters twice visited Astoria , and with his wife had a meeting in August 1986 with Ezrin, who later suggested that he was being "checked out". As Waters

3591-422: A progressive idea ... Ironically, and quite paradoxically, 'progressive rock', the classic era of the late 1960s through the mid- and late 1970s, introduces not only the explosive and exploratory sounds of technology ... but traditional music forms (classical and European folk) and (often) a pastiche compositional style and artificial constructs ( concept albums ) which suggests postmodernism ." In 1966,

3724-454: A publication typeset in the style of Schott's Miscellany . In 2015, The History of Rock (using a title previously used for an Orbis Publishing partwork) was launched as a spin-off from Uncut . The new magazine would cover the key events in rock history by year, starting in 1965 and continuing to the present day (though the series was never completed). The History of Rock reproduced contemporary articles that had originally appeared in

3857-483: A re-formed Yes released the relatively mainstream 90125 (1983), which yielded their only US number-one single, " Owner of a Lonely Heart ". One band who remained successful into the 1980s while maintaining a progressive approach was Pink Floyd, who released The Wall late in 1979. The album, which brought punk anger into progressive rock, was a huge success and was later filmed as Pink Floyd – The Wall . Punk and progressive rock were not necessarily as opposed as

3990-497: A sampling machine began playing a sample of laughter, which Gilmour thought sounded like a dog's bark. " Terminal Frost " was one of Gilmour's older demos, which he decided to leave as an instrumental. Conversely, the lyrics for " Sorrow " were written before the music. The song's opening guitar solo was recorded in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena . A 24-track mobile studio piped Gilmour's guitar tracks through

4123-445: A second generation of neo-prog bands, emerged in the 1990s. The use of the term "progressive" to describe groups that follow in the style of bands from ten to twenty years earlier is somewhat controversial, as it has been seen as a contradiction of the spirit of experimentation and progress. These new bands were aided in part by the availability of personal computer-based recording studios , which reduced album production expenses, and

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4256-483: A shared love of aviation, Mason and Gilmour were taking flying lessons and together bought a de Havilland Dove aeroplane. Gilmour was working on other collaborations, including a performance for Bryan Ferry at 1985's Live Aid concert, and co-produced the Dream Academy 's self-titled debut album . In December 1985, Waters announced that he had left Pink Floyd, which he believed was "a spent force creatively". After

4389-416: A solo in "On the Turning Away", which was discarded, according to Wright, "not because they didn't like it ... they just thought it didn't fit". Gilmour later said: "Both Nick and Rick were catatonic in terms of their playing ability at the beginning. Neither of them played on this at all really. In my view, they'd been destroyed by Roger." Gilmour's comments angered Mason, who said: "I'd deny that I

4522-407: A split live album with Gong offshoot Here & Now . The term " post-progressive " identifies progressive rock that returns to its original principles while dissociating from 1970s progressive rock styles, and may be located after 1978. Martin credits Roxy Music 's Brian Eno as the sub-genre's most important catalyst, explaining that his 1973–77 output merged aspects of progressive rock with

4655-466: A style derivative of English bands. The "Kosmische music" scene in Germany came to be labelled as " krautrock " internationally and is frequently cited as part of the progressive rock genre or an entirely distinct phenomenon. Krautrock bands such as Can , which included two members who had studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen , tended to be more strongly influenced by 20th-century classical music than

4788-431: A wider palette than that drawn on by the most popular 1970s bands. Progressive rock is varied and is based on fusions of styles, approaches, and genres, tapping into broader cultural resonances that connect to avant-garde art, classical music and folk music , performance and the moving image. Although a unidirectional English "progressive" style emerged in the late 1960s, by 1967, progressive rock had come to constitute

4921-452: A writ for copyright fees for use of the Pink Floyd flying pig ; Pink Floyd responded by attaching a huge set of male genitalia to the balloon's underside to distinguish it from Waters' design. By November 1987, Waters had given up, and on 23 December a legal settlement was reached at a meeting on Astoria . The Momentary Lapse tour beat box office records in every US venue it booked, and was

5054-487: Is Gilmour's album to much the same degree that the previous four under Floyd's name were dominated by Waters … Clearly it wasn't only business sense and repressed ego but repressed talent which drove the guitarist to insist on continuing under the band brand-name." Recognising the return to a more music-oriented approach, Sounds said the album was "back over the wall to where diamonds are crazy, moons have dark sides, and mothers have atom hearts". Conversely, Greg Quill of

5187-565: Is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid 1970s. Initially termed " progressive pop ", the style was an emergence of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz , folk , or classical music . Additional elements contributed to its " progressive " label: lyrics were more poetic, technology

5320-670: Is commonly believed. Both genres reject commercialism, and punk bands did see a need for musical advancement. Author Doyle Green noted that post-punk emerged as "a kind of 'progressive punk ' ". Post-punk artists rejected the high cultural references of 1960s rock artists like the Beatles and Bob Dylan as well as paradigms that defined rock as "progressive", "art", or "studio perfectionism". In contrast to punk rock, it balances punk's energy and skepticism with art school consciousness, Dadaist experimentalism, and atmospheric, ambient soundscapes. World music , especially African and Asian traditions,

5453-543: Is conceptual by definition, due to its prominent theme of questioning the values of Christianity. Its guttural vocals are sometimes used by bands who can be classified as progressive, such as Mastodon , Mudvayne and Opeth . Symphonic metal is an extension of the tendency towards orchestral passages in early progressive rock. Progressive rock has also served as a key inspiration for genres such as post-rock , post-metal and avant-garde metal , math rock , power metal and neo-classical metal . New prog describes

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5586-407: Is considerably darker, and the uplifting 'On the Turning Away' simply sublime." A Momentary Lapse of Reason was reissued in 1988 as a limited-edition vinyl with posters and a guaranteed ticket application for Pink Floyd's upcoming UK concerts. It was digitally remastered and rereleased in 1994. A tenth-anniversary edition was issued in the US in 1997. In December 2019, A Momentary Lapse of Reason

5719-460: Is implied by unsympathetic critics." In early references to the music, "progressive" was partly related to progressive politics , but those connotations were lost during the 1970s. On "progressive music", Holm-Hudson writes that it "moves continuously between explicit and implicit references to genres and strategies derived not only from European art music, but other cultural domains (such as East Indian, Celtic, folk, and African) and hence involves

5852-495: Is sometimes limited to a stereotype of long solos, long albums, fantasy lyrics, grandiose stage sets and costumes, and an obsessive dedication to technical skill. While the genre is often cited for its merging of high culture and low culture , few artists incorporated literal classical themes in their work to any great degree, and only a handful of groups, such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Renaissance , purposely emulated or referenced classical music. The genre coincided with

5985-498: The Toronto Star wrote: "Something's missing here. This is, for all its lumbering weight, not a record that challenges and provokes as Pink Floyd should. A Momentary Lapse of Reason , sorry to say, is mundane, predictable." Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote: "You'd hardly know the group's conceptmaster was gone – except that they put out noticeably fewer ideas." In 2016, AllMusic critic William Ruhlmann described it as

6118-572: The Internet , which made it easier for bands outside of the mainstream to reach widespread audiences. Record stores specialising in progressive rock appeared in large cities. The shred music of the 1980s was a major influence on the progressive rock groups of the 1990s. Some of the newer bands, such as the Flower Kings , Spock's Beard and Glass Hammer , played a 1970s-style symphonic prog, but with an updated sound. A number of them began to explore

6251-647: The Momentary Lapse remixes will be dramatic enough to sway the band's critics, they add clarity to what Gilmour was trying to achieve." Pink Floyd toured for A Momentary Lapse of Reason before it was complete. Early rehearsals were chaotic; Mason and Wright were out of practice, and, realising he had taken on too much work, Gilmour asked Ezrin to take charge. Gilmour and Mason funded the start-up costs; Mason, separated from his wife, used his Ferrari 250 GTO as collateral. Matters were complicated when Waters contacted several US promoters and threatened to sue if they used

6384-425: The hippie counterculture in favour of a modernist , avant-garde approach. Similarities between the two terms are that they both describe a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility. However, art rock is more likely to have experimental or avant-garde influences. "Prog" was devised in the 1990s as a shorthand term, but later became a transferable adjective, also suggesting

6517-451: The new wave of British heavy metal – most notably Iron Maiden – onwards displayed progressive rock influences. Progressive metal reached a point of maturity with Queensrÿche 's 1988 concept album Operation: Mindcrime , Voivod 's 1989 Nothingface , which featured abstract lyrics and a King Crimson-like texture, and Dream Theater 's 1992 Images and Words . Progressive rock elements appear in other metal subgenres. Black metal

6650-851: The popular song began signalling a new possible means of expression that went beyond the three-minute love song , leading to an intersection between the "underground" and the "establishment" for listening publics. Hegarty and Halliwell identify the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Doors , the Pretty Things , the Zombies , the Byrds , the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd "not merely as precursors of progressive rock but as essential developments of progressiveness in its early days". According to musicologist Walter Everett ,

6783-452: The " Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon " on Chicago II . Jazz influences appeared in the music of British bands such as Traffic , Colosseum and If , together with Canterbury scene bands such as Soft Machine and Caravan . Canterbury scene bands emphasised the use of wind instruments, complex chord changes and long improvisations. Martin writes that in 1968, "full-blown progressive rock"

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6916-594: The Beach Boys and the Beatles  ... [They] brought expansions in harmony , instrumentation (and therefore timbre ), duration , rhythm , and the use of recording technology . Of these elements, the first and last were the most important in clearing a pathway toward the development of progressive rock. – Bill Martin Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper , with their lyrical unity, extended structure, complexity, eclecticism, experimentalism, and influences derived from classical music forms, are largely viewed as beginnings in

7049-495: The Beatles , Elvis Costello , the Kinks , Fleetwood Mac and more. Uncut underwent a radical redesign in May 2006, as a result of which the magazine no longer catered for books and reduced its film content. Jones writes a regular monthly column, recounting stories from his long career in music journalism. Uncut ' s monthly circulation dropped from over 90,000 in 2007 to 47,890 in

7182-557: The Beatles and the Yardbirds . The Beatles' Paul McCartney said in 1967: "we [the band] got a bit bored with 12 bars all the time, so we tried to get into something else. Then came Dylan, the Who , and the Beach Boys. ... We're all trying to do vaguely the same kind of thing." Rock music started to take itself seriously, paralleling earlier attempts in jazz (as swing gave way to bop , a move which did not succeed with audiences). In this period,

7315-469: The Beatles did, it is fair to assume that there would have been no progressive rock." In the aftermath of Sgt. Pepper , magazines such as Melody Maker drew a sharp line between "pop" and "rock", thus eliminating the "roll" from " rock and roll " (which now refers to the 1950s style). The only artists who remained "rock" would be those who were considered at the vanguard of compositional forms, far from "radio friendly" standards, as Americans increasingly used

7448-557: The Beatles' "experimental timbres, rhythms, tonal structures, and poetic texts" on their albums Rubber Soul (1965) and Revolver (1966) "encouraged a legion of young bands that were to create progressive rock in the early 1970s". Dylan's poetry, the Mothers of Invention 's album Freak Out! (1966) and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) were all important in progressive rock's development. The productions of Phil Spector were key influences, as they introduced

7581-550: The British magazine Prog to honour the genre's established acts and to promote its newer bands. Honorees, however, are not invited to perform at the awards ceremony, as the promoters want an event "that doesn't last three weeks". In 2019, The Prog Report, named Mike Portnoy and Neal Morse artists of the decade for 2010-2019. During this time, Portnoy released 40 albums, 24 of them with Morse, while Morse released an additional 5 albums of his own. Uncut (magazine) Uncut

7714-467: The British progressive rock bands, whose musical vocabulary leaned more towards the Romantic era . Many of these groups were very influential even among bands that had little enthusiasm for the symphonic variety of progressive rock. Concurrently, Black American popular musicians drew from progressive rock's conceptual album-oriented approach. This led to a progressive-soul movement in the 1970s that inspired

7847-513: The Byrds' vocal harmonies inspired those of Yes , and British folk rock bands like Fairport Convention , who emphasised instrumental virtuosity. Some of these artists, such as the Incredible String Band and Shirley and Dolly Collins , would prove influential through their use of instruments borrowed from world music and early music . Many groups and musicians played important roles in this development process, but none more than

7980-508: The Fall and Talking Heads have been featured, with updated and expanded versions of earlier guides also released as Deluxe Editions (for example Lennon: 80th Birthday Edition or PJ Harvey 's guide which came out again as a '30th Anniversary Edition' in June 2021). In 2021, Uncut launched more spin-offs including The Complete Bob Dylan and The Beatles – Miscellany & Atlas , the latter being

8113-484: The Isley Brothers ( 3 + 3 ), while noting that the Who's progressive rock-influenced Who Are You (1978) also drew from the soul variant. Dominic Maxwell of The Times calls Wonder's mid-1970s albums "prog soul of the highest order, pushing the form yet always heartfelt, ambitious and listenable". Political and social trends of the late 1970s shifted away from the early 1970s hippie attitudes that had led to

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8246-483: The London scene and recorded with a band of English musicians, initiated the trend towards guitar virtuosity and eccentricity in rock music. The Scottish band 1-2-3, later renamed Clouds , were formed in 1966 and began performing at London clubs a year later. According to Mojo 's George Knemeyer: "some claim [that they] had a vital influence on prog-rockers such as Yes, The Nice and Family." Symphonic rock artists in

8379-484: The Moody Blues, Procol Harum and Pink Floyd all contained elements of what is now called progressive rock, but none represented as complete an example of the genre as several bands that formed soon after. Almost all of the genre's major bands, including Jethro Tull, King Crimson , Yes , Genesis , Van der Graaf Generator , ELP , Gentle Giant , Barclay James Harvest and Renaissance , released their debut albums during

8512-501: The Moon and Wish You Were Here were successful "not just because of Roger's contributions, but also because there was a better balance between the music and the lyrics [than on later albums]". Waters said of A Momentary Lapse : "I think it's very facile, but a quite clever forgery ... The songs are poor in general; the lyrics I can't quite believe. Gilmour's lyrics are very third-rate." Wright said Waters' criticisms were "fair". In

8645-519: The New York City art scene of the early 1960s. The trend of bands with names drawn from literature, such as the Doors , Steppenwolf and the Ides of March , were a further sign of rock music aligning itself with high culture. Dylan also led the way in blending rock with folk music styles. This was followed by folk rock groups such as the Byrds, who based their initial sound on that of the Beatles. In turn,

8778-713: The Nice's Ars Longa Vita Brevis . The latter, along with such tracks as " Rondo " and " America ", reflect a greater interest in music that is entirely instrumental. Sgt. Pepper's and Days both represent a growing tendency towards song cycles and suites made up of multiple movements . Focus incorporated and articulated jazz-style chords, and irregular off-beat drumming into their later rock-based riffs, and several bands that included jazz-style horn sections appeared, including Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago . Of these, Martin highlights Chicago in particular for their experimentation with suites and extended compositions, such as

8911-458: The Pink Floyd name. Some promoters were offended by Waters' threat, and several months later 60,000 tickets went on sale in Toronto , selling out within hours. As the new line-up (with Wright) toured throughout North America, Waters' Radio K.A.O.S. tour was sometimes close by. Waters forbade the members of Pink Floyd to attend his concerts, which were generally in smaller venues. Waters also issued

9044-441: The adjective "progressive" for groups like Jethro Tull , Family , East of Eden , Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson . According to AllMusic : "Prog-rock began to emerge out of the British psychedelic scene in 1967, specifically a strain of classical/symphonic rock led by the Nice , Procol Harum , and the Moody Blues ( Days of Future Passed )." The availability of newly affordable recording equipment coincided with

9177-422: The avant-garde since the mid-1970s. The term "progressive rock" is synonymous with " art rock ", "classical rock" (not to be confused with classic rock ), and "symphonic rock". Historically, "art rock" has been used to describe at least two related, but distinct, types of rock music. The first is progressive rock as it is generally understood, while the second usage refers to groups who rejected psychedelia and

9310-626: The band members worked on solo projects. Guitarist David Gilmour expressed feelings about his strained relationship with Waters on his second solo album, About Face (1984), and finished the accompanying tour as Waters began touring to promote his debut solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking . Although both had enlisted a range of successful performers, including in Waters' case Eric Clapton , their solo acts attracted fewer fans than Pink Floyd; poor ticket sales forced Gilmour to cancel several concerts, and critic David Fricke felt that Waters' show

9443-459: The characterization of progressive rock offered by its critics. ... they each do so largely unconsciously." Academic John S. Cotner contests Macan's view that progressive rock cannot exist without the continuous and overt assimilation of classical music into rock. Author Kevin Holm-Hudson agrees that "progressive rock is a style far more diverse than what is heard from its mainstream groups and what

9576-421: The condition of "art"; some harmonic language was imported from jazz and 19th-century classical music ; the album format overtook singles ; and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening, not dancing. One of the best ways to define progressive rock is that it is a heterogeneous and troublesome genre – a formulation that becomes clear

9709-634: The creative process that had previously belonged to the artists, and established acts were pressured to create music with simpler harmony and song structures and fewer changes in meter. A number of symphonic pop bands, such as Supertramp , 10cc , the Alan Parsons Project and the Electric Light Orchestra , brought the orchestral-style arrangements into a context that emphasised pop singles while allowing for occasional instances of exploration. Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant and Pink Floyd opted for

9842-579: The decline. Music critics, who often labelled the concepts as "pretentious" and the sounds as "pompous" and "overblown", tended to be hostile towards the genre or to completely ignore it. After the late 1970s, progressive rock fragmented in numerous forms. Some bands achieved commercial success well into the 1980s (albeit with changed lineups and more compact song structures) or crossed into symphonic pop , arena rock , or new wave . Early groups who exhibited progressive features are retroactively described as " proto-prog ". The Canterbury scene , originating in

9975-450: The fact that we had a contract with CBS Records and that part of the contract could be construed to mean that we had a product commitment with CBS and if we didn't go on producing product, they could a) sue us and b) withhold royalties if we didn't make any more records. So they said, 'that's what the record company are going to do and the rest of the band are going to sue you for all their legal expenses and any loss of earnings because you're

10108-423: The failure of his About Face tour, Gilmour hoped to continue with the Pink Floyd name. The threat of a lawsuit from Gilmour, Mason and CBS Records was meant to compel Waters to write and produce another Pink Floyd album with his bandmates, who had barely participated in making The Final Cut ; Gilmour was especially critical of the album, labelling it "cheap filler" and "meandering rubbish". They threatened me with

10241-501: The genre fragmented from the late 1970s onwards. In Robert Fripp 's opinion, once "progressive rock" ceased to cover new ground – becoming a set of conventions to be repeated and imitated – the genre's premise had ceased to be "progressive". The era of record labels investing in their artists, giving them freedom to experiment and limited control over their content and marketing ended with the late 1970s. Corporate artists and repertoire staff exerted an increasing amount of control over

10374-410: The genre into greater complexity while retracing the roots of romantic and classical music. Sociologist Paul Willis believes: "We must never be in doubt that 'progressive' music followed rock 'n' roll, and that it could not have been any other way. We can see rock 'n' roll as a deconstruction and 'progressive' music as a reconstruction." Author Will Romano states that "rock itself can be interpreted as

10507-490: The genre's development and popularity. The rise in punk cynicism made the utopian ideals expressed in progressive rock lyrics unfashionable. Virtuosity was rejected, as the expense of purchasing quality instruments and the time investment of learning to play them were seen as barriers to rock's energy and immediacy. There were also changes in the music industry, as record companies disappeared and merged into large media conglomerates . Promoting and developing experimental music

10640-451: The genre's legacy in this period was its influence on other styles, as several European guitarists brought a progressive rock approach to heavy metal and laid the groundwork for progressive metal . Michael Schenker , of UFO ; and Uli Jon Roth , who replaced Schenker in Scorpions , expanded the modal vocabulary available to guitarists. Roth studied classical music with the intent of using

10773-458: The genre's major acts released debut albums between 1983 and 1985 and shared the same manager, Keith Goodwin, a publicist who had been instrumental in promoting progressive rock during the 1970s. The previous decade's bands had the advantage of appearing during a prominent countercultural movement that provided them with a large potential audience, but the neo-prog bands were limited to a relatively niche demographic and found it difficult to attract

10906-427: The genre. These groups retained some of the song complexity and orchestral-style arrangements, but they moved away from lyrical mysticism in favour of more conventional themes such as relationships. These radio-friendly groups have been called "prog lite". Genesis transformed into a successful pop act, the prog supergroup Asia (consisting of members of Yes, King Crimson, and ELP) scored a number-one album in 1982, and

11039-442: The group and asking them to release him from his contractual obligations. He also dispensed with the services of Pink Floyd manager Steve O'Rourke and employed Peter Rudge to manage his affairs. This left Gilmour and Mason, in their view, free to continue with the Pink Floyd name. In 2013, Waters said he regretted the lawsuit and had not understood English jurisprudence . In Waters' absence, Gilmour had been recruiting musicians for

11172-472: The guitar in the way that classical composers used the violin. Finally, the Dutch-born and classically trained Alex and Eddie Van Halen formed Van Halen , featuring ground-breaking whammy-bar, tapping and cross-picking guitar performances that influenced " shred " music in the 1980s. By the early 1980s, progressive rock was thought to be all but dead as a style, an idea reinforced by the fact that some of

11305-590: The late 1960s had some chart success, including the singles " Nights in White Satin " (the Moody Blues, 1967) and " A Whiter Shade of Pale " (Procol Harum, 1967). The Moody Blues established the popularity of symphonic rock when they recorded Days of Future Passed together with the London Festival Orchestra . Classical influences sometimes took the form of pieces adapted from or inspired by classical works, such as Jeff Beck 's " Beck's Bolero " and parts of

11438-612: The late 1960s, denotes a subset of progressive rock bands who emphasised the use of wind instruments , complex chord changes and long improvisations. Rock in Opposition , from the late 1970s, was more avant-garde , and when combined with the Canterbury style, created avant-prog . In the 1980s, a new subgenre, neo-prog , enjoyed some commercial success, although it was also accused of being derivative and lacking in innovation. Post-progressive draws upon newer developments in popular music and

11571-573: The latest Ultimate Genre Guide was published, a title devoted to Goth which featured articles on the Cure, Nick Cave and cover star Siouxsie. In late 2005, editor Allan Jones and publishing director Andrew Sumner launched a spin-off of the main movies and music magazine, that focused its attention on DVD releases of classic movies. Billed as "the only great movie magazine", Uncut DVD was designed to compete with such established titles as Ultimate DVD , DVD Review and DVD Monthly . Despite strong reviews in

11704-472: The level of social and artistic correspondence among British and American rock musicians dramatically accelerated for bands like the Beatles , the Beach Boys and the Byrds who fused elements of cultivated music with the vernacular traditions of rock. Progressive rock was predicated on the "progressive" pop groups from the 1960s who combined rock and roll with various other music styles such as Indian ragas , oriental melodies and Gregorian chants , like

11837-506: The limits of the CD in the way that earlier groups had stretched the limits of the vinyl LP. Progressive rock and heavy metal have similar timelines. Both emerged from late-1960s psychedelia to achieve great early-1970s success despite a lack of radio airplay and support from critics, then faded in the mid-to-late 1970s and experienced revivals in the early 1980s. Each genre experienced a fragmentation of styles at this time, and many metal bands from

11970-458: The magazine includes a free CD , which may include both new and older music. Special Issues have covered U2 , Radiohead , Bob Dylan , Bruce Springsteen , the Byrds , David Bowie , Demon Records , Eric Clapton , John Lennon , Pink Floyd , Queen , Martin Scorsese , Motown Records , Morrissey , George Harrison , Jimmy Page , Led Zeppelin , the Beach Boys , Paul McCartney , Neil Young ,

12103-567: The majority of titles that followed were produced by magazine editor Chris Hunt ), followed by magazines entirely devoted to Radiohead, Kurt Cobain , U2, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and John Lennon (with the Lennon magazine being produced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the former member of the Beatles). Since the series was rebranded as The Ultimate Music Guide , artists such as Kraftwerk , Wilco , Creedence Clearwater Revival ,

12236-430: The material that Ralbovsky had found objectionable, Gilmour employed session musicians such as Carmine Appice and Jim Keltner . Both drummers replaced Mason on several songs; Mason was concerned that he was too out of practice to perform on the album, and instead busied himself with its sound effects. Some drum parts were also performed by drum machines . In his memoir, Mason wrote: "In hindsight, I really should have had

12369-411: The mid-1960s economic boom that allowed record labels to allocate more creative control to their artists, as well as the new journalistic division between "pop" and "rock" that lent generic significance to both terms. It saw a high level of popularity in the early-to-mid-1970s, but faded soon after. Conventional wisdom holds that the rise of punk rock caused this, but several more factors contributed to

12502-457: The middle of the night." The bitterness of the row between Waters and Pink Floyd was covered in a November 1987 issue of Rolling Stone , which became the magazine's best-selling issue of that year. The legal disputes were resolved out of court by the end of 1987. Careful consideration was given to the album's title, with the initial three contenders being Signs of Life , Of Promises Broken and Delusions of Maturity . The final title appears as

12635-588: The moment we leave behind characterizations based only on the most visible bands of the early to mid-1970s – Paul Hegarty and Martin Halliwell Critics of the genre often limit its scope to a stereotype of long solos, overlong albums, fantasy lyrics, grandiose stage sets and costumes, and an obsessive dedication to technical skill. While progressive rock is often cited for its merging of high culture and low culture, few artists incorporated literal classical themes in their work to any great degree, and only

12768-573: The most successful US tour that year. Tours of Australia, Japan, and Europe followed, before two more tours of the US. Almost every venue was sold out. A live album, Delicate Sound of Thunder , was released on 22 November 1988, followed in June 1989 by a concert video. A few days later, the live album was played in orbit, on board Soyuz TM-7 . The tour eventually came to an end by closing the Silver Clef Award Winners Concert , at Knebworth Park on 30 June 1990, after 200 performances,

12901-672: The music publications of IPC Magazines, with articles from Melody Maker and the NME (used for the period 1965 to 1990) joined by articles from Vox and Uncut in later issues. Another spin-off to Bandlab's Ultimate Music Guide is the Ultimate Genre Guide , which takes an in depth look at a particular music style. Magazines in this series include 2021's Ultimate Genre Guide to Shoegaze which features articles about The Jesus and Mary Chain , Lush and My Bloody Valentine , as well as issues devoted to Punk, Glam and Soul In July 2023,

13034-475: The neo-prog bands were not so much plagiarising progressive rock as they were creating a new style from progressive rock elements, just as the bands of a decade before had created a new style from jazz and classical elements. Author Edward Macan counters by pointing out that these bands were at least partially motivated by a nostalgic desire to preserve a past style rather than a drive to innovate. A third wave of progressive rock bands, who can also be described as

13167-551: The one that's preventing the band from making any more records.' They forced me to resign from the band because, if I hadn't, the financial repercussions would have wiped me out completely. Roger Waters, Uncut (June 2004), explaining why he stopped his legal challenge According to Gilmour, "I told [Waters] before he left, 'If you go, man, we're carrying on. Make no bones about it, we would carry on ' , and Roger replied: 'You'll never fucking do it.'" Waters had written to EMI and Columbia declaring his intention to leave

13300-444: The point at which the LP record emerged as a creative format whose importance was equal to or greater than that of the single. Bill Bruford , a veteran of several progressive rock bands, said that Sgt. Pepper transformed both musicians' ideas of what was possible and audiences' ideas of what was acceptable in music. He believed that: "Without the Beatles, or someone else who had done what

13433-590: The point when "all English bands in the genre should have ceased to exist". More of the major bands, including Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant and U.K. , dissolved between 1978 and 1980. Many bands had by the mid-1970s reached the limit of how far they could experiment in a rock context, and fans had wearied of the extended, epic compositions. The sounds of the Hammond , Minimoog and Mellotron had been thoroughly explored, and their use became clichéd. Those bands who continued to record often simplified their sound, and

13566-549: The pop duo the Buggles . When King Crimson reformed in 1981, they released an album, Discipline , which Macan says "inaugurated" the new post-progressive style. The new King Crimson line-up featured guitarist and vocalist Adrian Belew , who also collaborated with Talking Heads, playing live with the band and featuring on their 1980 album Remain in Light . According to Martin, Talking Heads also created "a kind of new-wave music that

13699-552: The possibility of using the recording studio to create music that otherwise could never be achieved. The same is said for the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (1966), which Brian Wilson intended as an answer to Rubber Soul and which in turn influenced the Beatles when they made Sgt. Pepper . Dylan introduced a literary element to rock through his fascination with the Surrealists and the French Symbolists , and his immersion in

13832-466: The principal progressive groups had developed a more commercial sound. ... What went out of the music of these now ex-progressive groups ... was any significant evocation of art music. – John Covach Some established artists moved towards music that was simpler and more commercially viable. Arena rock bands like Journey , Kansas , Styx , GTR , ELO and Foreigner either had begun as progressive rock bands or included members with strong ties to

13965-524: The progressive rock genre and as turning points wherein rock, which previously had been considered dance music, became music that was made for listening to. Between Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper , the Beach Boys released the single " Good Vibrations " (1966), dubbed a " pocket symphony " by Derek Taylor , the band's publicist. The song contained an eclectic array of exotic instruments and several disjunctive key and modal shifts. Scott Interrante of Popmatters wrote that its influence on progressive rock and

14098-505: The project had been difficult without Waters. A Momentary Lapse of Reason was recorded in several studios, mainly Gilmour's houseboat studio Astoria , moored on the Thames ; according to Ezrin, "working there was just magical, so inspirational; kids sculling down the river, geese flying by...". Andy Jackson was brought in to engineer. During sessions held between November 1986 and February 1987, Gilmour's band worked on new material, which in

14231-505: The psychedelic movement "can't be overstated". Martin likened the song to the Beatles' " A Day in the Life " from Sgt. Pepper , in that they showcase "the same reasons why much progressive rock is difficult to dance to". Although Sgt. Pepper was preceded by several albums that had begun to bridge the line between "disposable" pop and "serious" rock, it successfully gave an established "commercial" voice to an alternative youth culture and marked

14364-481: The readers further away from me", specifically referring to the then dominant Britpop genre. According to IPC Media, 86% of the magazine's readers are male and their average age is 37 years. Uncut' s contents include lengthy features on old albums, interviews with film directors, music and film news, and reviews of all major new album, film and DVD releases. Its music features tend to focus on genres such as Americana , rock and alternative country . Each month,

14497-501: The rise of a London underground scene at which the psychedelic drug LSD was commonly used. Pink Floyd and Soft Machine functioned as house bands at all-night events at locations such as Middle Earth and the UFO Club , where they experimented with sound textures and long-form songs. Many psychedelic, folk rock and early progressive bands were aided by exposure from BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel . Jimi Hendrix , who rose to prominence in

14630-464: The same geographic areas in which British heavy metal bands experienced their greatest popularity. The overlap in audiences led to the success of arena rock bands, such as Boston , Kansas , and Styx , who combined elements of the two styles. Progressive rock achieved popularity in Continental Europe more quickly than it did in the US. Italy remained generally uninterested in rock music until

14763-508: The scenes for Pink Floyd – The Wall were filmed. The beds were arranged by Thorgerson's colleague Colin Elgie. A hang glider in the sky references "Learning to Fly". The photographer, Robert Dowling, won a gold award at the Association of Photographers Awards for the image, which took about two weeks to create. Some versions of the cover do not feature the hang glider, and other versions feature

14896-746: The second half of 2015. In 2019, TI Media, successor to IPC, sold NME and Uncut to Singaporean company BandLab Technologies. BandLab Technologies became the Caldecott Music Group in 2021 and split itself into three sub-units called BandLab Technologies, Vista Musical Instruments and NME Networks, with the latter group continuing to publish Uncut . In May 2023, NME Networks sold Uncut's print and digital assets to Kelsey Media, publisher of car magazines like Car Mechanics , Motorsport News and Fast Car , and farming titles like Crop Production Magazine , Practical Pigs and The Smallholder . The first copy of Uncut published under Kelsey Media

15029-408: The self-belief to play all the drum parts. And in the early days of life after Roger, I think David and I felt that we had to get it right, or we would be slaughtered." During the sessions, Gilmour was asked by the wife of Pink Floyd's former keyboardist, Richard Wright , if he could contribute. A founding member of the band, Wright had left in 1981, and there were legal obstacles to his return; after

15162-452: The sound of Gilmour's boatman Langley Iddens rowing across the Thames. Iddens' presence at the sessions became vital when Astoria began to lift in response to the rapidly rising river, which was pushing the boat against the pier on which it was moored. " The Dogs of War " is a song about "physical and political mercenaries", according to Gilmour. It came about through a mishap in the studio when

15295-742: The strong Italian progressive rock scene developed in the early 1970s. Progressive rock emerged in Yugoslavia in the late 1960s, dominating the Yugoslav rock scene until the late 1970s. Few of the European groups were successful outside of their own countries, with the exceptions of Dutch bands like Focus and Golden Earring who wrote English-language lyrics, and the Italians Le Orme and PFM , whose English lyrics were written by Peter Hammill and Peter Sinfield , respectively. Some European bands played in

15428-613: The wave of progressive rock bands in the 2000s who revived the genre. According to Entertainment Weekly ' s Evan Serpick, "success stories like System of a Down and up-and-comers like the Dillinger Escape Plan , Lightning Bolt , Coheed and Cambria , and the Mars Volta create incredibly complex and inventive music that sounds like a heavier, more aggressive version of '70s behemoths such as Led Zeppelin and King Crimson." The Progressive Music Awards were launched in 2012 by

15561-521: The years 1968–1970. Most of these were folk-rock albums that gave little indication of what the bands' mature sound would become, but King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) and Yes' self-titled debut album (1969) were early, fully formed examples of the genre. Most of the genre's major bands released their most critically acclaimed albums during the years 1971–1976. The genre experienced

15694-519: Was certified silver and gold in the UK on 1 October 1987, and gold and platinum in the US on 9 November. It went double platinum on 18 January the following year, triple platinum on 10 March 1992, and quadruple platinum on 16 August 2001, greatly outselling The Final Cut . Gilmour presented A Momentary Lapse as a return to an older Pink Floyd sound, citing his belief that under Waters' tenure, lyrics had become more important than music. He said that their albums The Dark Side of

15827-470: Was "a petulant echo, a transparent attempt to prove that Roger Waters was Pink Floyd". Waters returned to the US in March 1985 with a second tour, this time without the support of CBS Records , which had expressed its preference for a new Pink Floyd album; Waters criticised the corporation as "a machine". At that time, certainly, I just thought, I can't really see how we can make the next record or if we can it's

15960-454: Was "far easier for Dave and I to do our version of a Floyd record". Ezrin arrived in England in mid-1986 for what Gilmour later described as "mucking about with a lot of demos". At this stage, there was no commitment to a new Pink Floyd release, and Gilmour maintained that the material might become his third solo album. CBS representative Stephen Ralbovsky hoped for a new Pink Floyd album, but in

16093-478: Was also a major influence. Progressive rock's impact was felt in the work of some post-punk artists, although they tended not to emulate classical rock or Canterbury groups but rather Roxy Music , King Crimson, and krautrock bands, particularly Can. Punishment of Luxury 's music borrowed from both progressive and punk rock, whilst Alternative TV , who were fronted by the founder of the influential punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue Mark Perry , toured and released

16226-461: Was catatonic. I'd expect that from the opposition, it's less attractive from one's allies. At some point, he made some sort of apology." Mason conceded that Gilmour was nervous about how the album would be perceived. "Learning to Fly" was inspired by Gilmour's flying lessons, which occasionally conflicted with his studio duties. The track also contains a recording of Mason's voice during takeoff . The band experimented with samples , and Ezrin recorded

16359-441: Was derided by Waters. It reached number three in the UK and US, and outsold Pink Floyd's previous album, The Final Cut (1983). It was supported by a successful world tour between 1987 and 1989, including a free performance on a barge floating on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. After the release of Pink Floyd's 1983 album The Final Cut , viewed by some as a de facto solo record by bassist and songwriter Roger Waters ,

16492-424: Was different systems, everything. David Gilmour Gilmour experimented with songwriters such as Eric Stewart and Roger McGough , but settled on Anthony Moore , who was credited as co-writer of "Learning to Fly" and "On the Turning Away". Whereas many prior Pink Floyd albums are concept albums , Gilmour chose a more conventional approach of a collection of songs without a thematic link. Gilmour later said that

16625-425: Was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of " art ", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity , which often involved creating music for listening rather than dancing. Progressive rock is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, involving a continuous move between formalism and eclecticism . Due to its historical reception, the scope of progressive rock

16758-413: Was launched in May 1997 by IPC as "a monthly magazine aimed at 25- to 45-year-old men that focuses on music and movies", edited by Allan Jones (former editor of Melody Maker ). Jones has stated that "[t]he idea for Uncut came from my own disenchantment about what I was doing with Melody Maker . There was a publishing initiative to make the audience younger; I was getting older and they wanted to take

16891-405: Was marred by legal fights over the rights to the Pink Floyd name, which were not resolved until several months after release. It also saw the return of the keyboardist and founding member Richard Wright , who was fired by Waters during the recording of The Wall (1979). Wright returned as a session player. Unlike most of Pink Floyd's preceding studio records, A Momentary Lapse of Reason is not

17024-510: Was not part of the marketing strategy for these large corporations, who focused their attention on identifying and targeting profitable market niches . Four of progressive rock's most successful bands – King Crimson, Yes, ELP and Genesis – went on hiatus or experienced major personnel changes during the mid-1970s. Macan notes the September 1974 breakup of King Crimson as particularly significant, noting that Fripp (much later) referred to 1974 as

17157-407: Was not yet in existence; however, albums were released by three bands who would later come to the forefront of the music: Jethro Tull , Caravan and Soft Machine. The term "progressive rock", which appeared in the liner notes of Caravan's 1968 self-titled debut LP , came to be applied to bands that used classical music techniques to expand the styles and concepts available to rock music. The Nice,

17290-462: Was reissued again as part of the Later Years box set. It was updated and remixed by Gilmour and Jackson, with restored contributions from Wright and newly recorded drum tracks from Mason to "restore the creative balance between the three Pink Floyd members". Rolling Stone described this version as "more tasteful ... [It] doesn't drown in eighties reverb the way the original did ... Although none of

17423-542: Was still a shareholder and director of Pink Floyd Music, he was able to block any decisions made by his former bandmates. Recording moved to Mayfair Studios in February 1987, and from February to March – under the terms of an agreement with Ezrin to record close to his home – to A&M Studios in Los Angeles: "It was fantastic because ... the lawyers couldn't call in the middle of recording unless they were calling in

17556-429: Was the September 2023 issue (Take 317) in August, with the magazine still being sold in shops with its Now Playing compilation CD. Uncut often produces themed spin-off titles celebrating the career of one artist. This series is now known as The Ultimate Music Guide , but was initially known as Uncut Legends . The series started in 2003 with an inaugural issue devoted to Bob Dylan, edited by Nigel Williamson (though

17689-635: Was the perfect synthesis of punk urgency and attitude and progressive-rock sophistication and creativity. A good deal of the more interesting rock since that time is clearly 'post-Talking Heads' music, but this means that it is post-progressive rock as well." A second wave of progressive rock bands appeared in the early 1980s and have since been categorised as a separate " neo-prog " subgenre. These largely keyboard-based bands played extended compositions with complex musical and lyrical structures. Several of these bands were signed by major record labels, including Marillion , IQ , Pendragon and Pallas . Most of

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