BBC4 program: Prog Rock Brittania

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BBC press release at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/wk52/bbc_four.shtml#bbcfour_rock

Prog 
                  Rock Brittania – 

                  An Observation In Three Movements

        	Friday 2 January 

        	10.00-11.30pm BBC FOUR

Prog Rock Britannia is the first
comprehensive, feature-length documentary about progressive music and
the generation of bands that made it – from the international success
stories of Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson and Jethro Tull, to the
trials and tribulations of lesser-known bands such as Caravan and Egg. 

Narrated by Nigel Planer, the film is structured in three parts –
charting the birth, rise and decline of a movement famed for complex
musical structures, weird time signatures, technical virtuosity and
strange – quintessentially English – literary influences. 
 It looks at
the psychedelic pop scene that gave birth to progressive rock in the
late Sixties, the golden age of progressive music in the early
Seventies – complete with drum solos and gatefold record sleeves – and
the over-ambition, commercialisation and eventual fall from grace of
this rarefied musical experiment at the hands of punk in 1977. 
 The
documentary is a provocative, humorous but affectionate re-appraisal of
a music that was the value system of an all-too-brief period in British
popular music. 

Contributors include Robert Wyatt, Mike Oldfield, Pete Sinfield, Rick
Wakeman, Phil Collins, Arthur Brown, Carl Palmer and Ian Anderson.

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