Art rock
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Art rock is rock music that aims to distinguish the genre from popular entertainment, with the term typically being applied as the middle ground between mainstream and experimental rock. Art rock prim
Pink Floyd performing their concept album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Brian Wilson recording Pet Sounds in the studio, 1966
David Bowie photographed in 1974
Thom Yorke performing with Radiohead in 1998
Progressive rock
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Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United States and United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style emerged f
Art rock
…music, avant-garde art, experimental music, avant-garde music, alongside classical music and jazz. The term is sometimes deployed interchangeably with "progressive rock" and to refer to some experimental rock acts. Critics have defined art rock as a "rejection" of rock music intended solely for the purpose of popular…
The Beatles rehearsing in the studio with producer George Martin, 1966
Emerson, Lake & Palmer were one of the most commercially successful progressive rock bands of the 1970s. They are seen here performing in 1992.
King Crimson's Robert Fripp believed that the prog movement had gone "tragically off course".