Haken

Haken is a a young but respected London-based progressive rock band formed in 2007. This six-piece started strong, rose to the top of the progressive market, and ended up producing the 80-minute epic Aquarius in 2010. Musically Haken is many-faceted: sometimes song-oriented, sometimes avant-garde, often heavy, and always prog. Read more here. 

History of 70's British Prog Rock (documentary)

King Crimson

A documentary about the 70's british prog rock scene, which should be considered incomplete since it lacks any reference to the paradigmatic progressive rock band Gentle Giant, the heavy prog band Atomic Rooster, and more. Read more here. 

ELP live: Pictures at an Exhibition 1970

This is Emerson, Lake & Palmer's (ELP) full performance of their adaptation of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. The performance was filmed at the Lyceum Theatre in London in December 1970, but not released until 2001. Read more here. 

Neo-Progressive Rock

Marillion

Neo-Progressive rock, more commonly Neo-Prog, is a subgenre of progressive rock that originally was used to describe artists strongly influenced by the classic symphonic prog bands that flourished during the 1970's. Some asserting that Neo-Prog actually came into being with Marillion's Script for a Jester's Tear in 1983. Others contend it began with the band Twelfth Night at the dawn of the 80's, while some even earlier. Read more here. 

Jethro Tull: Live at the Hippodrome 1977

This is Jethro Tulll's concert at the London Hippodrome filmed on 10th February 1977 and broadcast on the BBC Sight & Sound program. Read more here. 

Yezda Urfa

Yezda Urfa was an American progressive rock band founded in the fall of 1973. The name Yezda Urfa comes from Yazd, the capital of Yazd Province in Iran and Urfa, a city  in south-eastern Turkey. The band recorded two albums before breaking up in the spring of 1981. They blend influences from Yes and Gentle Giant into wonderful, fast-paced, high-energy progressive rock. Read more here. 

Symphonic Prog Rock

Genesis

Symphonic Prog is the sub-genre that includes the most bands in progressive rock. For many people it's almost synonymous with classic prog, because most of the classic and/or pioneer bands released music that could be included in this sub-genre. The main characteristic of Symphonic Prog is the influence of Classical music (understood as orchestral works created from the late Gothic to Modern Classical) using normally more complex structure than other related sub-genres like Neo-Prog. Read more here. 

The Prog Rock years (documentary)

This 1998 documentary on progressive rock features Arthur Brown, The Nice, ELP, Yes, Asia, interviews with the bands' members and their solo projects. Read more here.

Uriah Heep

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and are regarded as one of the seminal hard rock acts of the early 1970's. Along with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep has become one of the top bands in the early 70s and also people like to call these four bands "The Big 4" of hard rock. Uriah Heep's heavy prog distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and (in the early years) David Byron's operatic vocals. Read more here. 

Yes: Sounding out Live & Interviews 1971

This film contains interviews of all Yes' members and excerpts of their live performance at Hemel Hempstead Pavilion, UK on 3rd October, 1971. Read more here. 

Hugh Syme's cover artwork

Rush-Gold (2006)

Hugh Syme is a Canadian Juno Award-winning graphic artist who is best known for his artwork and cover concepts for rock and metal bands. He is also a musician and has appeared in some Rush songs as a keyboard player. Syme is notably responsible for all of Rush's album cover art since 1975's Caress of Steel as well as creating Rush's famous Starman logo. Read more here. 

Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work. He is also credited with creating their name, but left the group in April 1968. In 1969, Barrett started off a brief solo career. Read more here. 

Jethro Tull Lively Arts BBC Documentary 1979

This documentary on Jethro Tull was filmed in the first half of 1979. It includes interviews and statements of all band members, as well as some rare concert footage that was filmed at the North American tour in 1979. Read more here. 

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: The Live Broadcasts

Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP) are captured on this film at the very beginning of a legendary career. Filmed at the time when the band had only just recorded their ground breaking first album, ELP had to use all of their huge individual creative talents to create a full show. Read more here. 

Heavy Progressive Rock

Heavy Prog defines progressive rock music that draws as much influence from hard rock as it does from classic prog rock. In simple terms, it is a marriage of the guitar-based heavy blues of the late 1960's and 1970's -artists such as Cream, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath- and the progressive/symphonic movement represented by King Crimson, Yes and Genesis. Read more here.  

Yes: Yessongs concert film

The Yessongs concert film was released for the first time in 1973. It documents the  performances of Yes at London's Rainbow Theatre on 15 and 16 December 1972 with added psychedelic visual images and effects. The concert was part of the band's supporting world tour for their studio album, Close to the Edge, between February and December 1972. Read more here. 

Prog Rock dismantled... just for fun

 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PROG ROCK

Progressive rock is characterized by a sacking of traditional song structure, complex rhythms, odd time signatures and a sense of inherent superiority over other rock genres. Because of this, it's pretty much never been popular... There is no clear definition of progressive rock, as it is not bounded by convention, structure, tradition or common sense. Progressive rock is like the anti-socialite of music; there are no rules or restrictions. Read more here. 

King Crimson: Live at the Melody Show 1974

This is a rare TV performance of King Crimson in 1974. They played for Melody Show, an on air music TV program in France. Read more here. 

Roger Dean: The Prog Rock album cover artist

Roger Dean is an English artist, designer, architect, and publisher. He is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, particularly for prog rock musicians, which he began painting in the late 1960s. The covers often feature exotic, fantasy landscapes. Read more here. 

Genesis in Concert: Shepperton Studios 1973

This is Genesis' famous Shepperton Studios film, performed on October 30-31, 1973 in Borehamwood, UK. This video is contained in the Genesis 1970-1975 box set of the five studio albums by Genesis featuring Peter Gabriel, released in 2008. Read more here. 

Canterbury Scene Prog Rock

The Canterbury Scene is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960's and early 1970's. Originally The Wilde Flowers, a teenage band of members living in and around Canterbury was formed in the 60's and became the seedling from which the Canterbury Scene grew. Over the years, with band membership changes and new bands evolving, the term Canterbury Scene has been used to describe a musical style, a prog rock subgenre, rather than a regional group of musicians. Read more here.  

Rush: Exit...Stage Left concert film 1981

Exit...Stage Left is a concert film released in 1982 on videocassette, laserdisc, and on DVD in 2007 by the Canadian band Rush. It documents a live concert performance by the band on their 1981 Moving Pictures tour. The concert footage was filmed March 27, 1981, at the Montreal Forum, in Montreal, Quebec.    Read more here. 

History of Progressive Rock

Progressive rock, also known as prog rock, is a rock music subgenre which originated in the United Kingdom, with further developments in Germany, Italy and France, throughout the mid to late 1960s and 1970s. Developing from psychedelic rock, progressive rock originated, similarly to art rock, as a "British attempt" to give greater artistic weight and credibility to rock music. Progressive rock intended to break the boundaries of traditional rock music by bringing in a greater and more eclectic range of influences, including free-form and experimental compositional methods, as well as new technological innovations. Read more here. 

Gentle Giant in Concert: German TV live 1974

In 1974 Christopher Nupen, the celebrated classical music director, invited the band to record this concert in a Brussels film studio to be broadcasted as a "Sunday Concert" on German TV station ZDF. Gentle Giant's virtuosic live act is documented in this concert which is contained, among other things, in the Giant on the Box DVD released in 2004. Read more here. 

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. He is one of the most loved musicians in the prog scene. After leaving Genesis, Peter Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His music has encompassed various styles ranging from progressive to pop rock and to world music. Read more here. 

Yes: Yesyears. A Retrospective (documentary)

Yes-Union tour (1991)

Yesyears is a 1991 video retrospective of the progressive rock group Yes covering the band's entire history from their 1969 debut album through their 1991 Union tour. Read more here. 

Crossover Prog Rock

Supertramp

Crossover Prog contains progressive rock music that, though it's progressive, may have a musical connection to popular music, whether it's because of the lack of emphasis on extended compositions, or an influence from mainstream music in addition to classical, jazz and folk. The defining characteristics of Crossover Prog are a pop music influence that is largely vacant in typical prog rock. Read more here. 

Camel: Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1976

This is a concert footage from the Camel performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1976, contained in the Moondances DVD released in 2007 by Camel Productions. The band here features its original line-up.  Read more here. 

L'Uovo di Colombo

Based in Rome, L'Uovo di Colombo was another of those Italian prog rock bands that just made a great    album without their record company support, so the band disappeared soon after the album release. Read more here. 

Gentle Giant: Baroque 'n' Roll Interview

This is Gentle Giant's black & white footage and interview with the Italian TV back in the '70s. The band achieved success in Italy way before in its home country, so the Italian television was very interested in them. Read more here. 

Artcane

Artcane was a mainly instrumental French progressive rock band. Very little is known about this four-piece set who released one album on Philips label at the tail end of prog's golden age and then disappeared from the map. Read more here.