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I hear much more spiritual awareness in Jon Anderson's solo work than in Yes. There's a little bit but not much compared to his solo work which is loaded with it. 

Pink Floyd explored political sociology especially with Animals which was based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
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Seventh Sojourn by the Moody Blues - all about ecology, the state of the planet, and possible future doom and gloom... was several decades ahead of its time.

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I've been thinking about which social / ideological issues the major Prog bands were especially concerned with in the '70s.
As for instance, I seem to have noticed these:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - nightmarish technocracy
Yes - spiritual awareness
Jethro Tull - poverty, organized religion
Eloy - apocalyptic themes symbolizing ?

It's quite interesting and not least because it seems to me having not so rarely much influenced not only the sound but the whole particular style of the bands.
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