Prog

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Mind-boggling panoply of silly era-capturing nuggets.

Nineteen seventy-one was a transitional year for British music as Yes, Genesis and Van der Graaf crystallised prog tropes on landmark albums, Marc Bolan cavorted as glam rock’s first superstar and the replacing John Peel’s radio show as the bar for fame-clinching ambition.

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