The Links
I thought I should add a page collecting all the links from the other pages and some others. Here it is.
You can go directly to the following sections:
1. Online Articles
2. Interviews
3. Other bibliographies
4. Links to books pages, publishers', authors' and artists' pages, where you can order books
5. Online bookstores
6. Fun
7. Miscellanea
1. Online Articles
Here is a site featuring Prog texts (in portuguese).
Here is a Prog history and a selection of milestone recordings.
Here is Peg Aloi's „Love From The Fields. The Imagery Of Pagan Britain in The Songs Of Ian Anderson".
Here is Roger L. Anderson's „Ian Anderson's acoustic guitar in the early recordings of Jethro Tull".
"Songs from the wood. Comments on the Caswell essay" by John Benninghouse is here.
"Minstrel in the Gallery: History in the music of Jethro Tull" by Judson C. Caswell can be found here.
Several articles by Emmett Chapman, inventor of the Stick can be found here.
Several other articles about the Stick can be found here.
Here is „Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Trilogy." by John Covach.
Here is „Free Hand. The Gentle Art of Counterpoint" by John Covach.
Here is „Genesis' Selling England by the Pound." by John Covach.
Here is „Jazz-Rock? Rock-Jazz? Stylistic Crossover in Late-1970s American Progressive Rock" by John Covach.
Here is „Jethro Tull and the Long Song." by John Covach.
Here is „Progressive or Excessive? Uneasy Tales from Topographics Oceans." by John Covach.
Here is „Progressive Rock, "Close to the Edge", and the Boundaries of Style." by John Covach.
Here is „Stylistic Competencies, Musical Humor, and This is Spinal Tap" by John Covach.
Here is Jim DeRogatis' „Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Prog-Rock Underground (But Were Afraid to Ask)".
Hereis Jim DeRogatis-website with lots of articles.
Here are ELP articles and interviews.
Here are even more ELP articles and interviews.
This is Jon Green's Promenade the Puzzle, a very interesting site on "the poetic vision of Peter Sinfield" (subtitle). Here you will find all the hermetic scriptures you laughed at reading Umberto Eco's "Il pendolo di Foucault" or you grew fascinated with reading "The holy blood and the holy grail" by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. Anyway, a very interesting site for those who want to explore Sinfield's lyrics in depth.
Here is an article about "The Chapman Stick, at home in the world of progressive rock" by Greg Howard. Thanks to Ralf J. Günther.
Here is Tomás Howie's „Rhythms of Progressive Rock".
Here you will find the Jethro Tull Tour History and The Annotated 'Passion Play'.
Here „Rock in the Name of Progress" by Brian L. Knight.
"Ian's Central Theme. Aqualung revisited." by Jeroen Louis is here.
Here is André Mauro's and Breno Ninini's „Rock Germânico no Brasil".
Here is Dave Morris' „Jethro Tull, Progressive Rock and Thematic Approach".
Here is Lawrence Moseley's „Jethro Tull : Gutter Prose, Kitchen Rhymes, Art For Your Time".
Here is Celso Pucci's „Can. Unanimidade subterrânea.
Rush is not regarded as Prog here. But, Rush fans, if you like to read, start here.
Here is Neil R. Thomason's „Jethro Tull, Celtic or English?".
This is "TullScapes. Essays on the art of Jethro Tull".
Here is Jan Voorbij's „"Do You Still See Me Even Here.........?" Seven years of Virtual Jethro Tull community".
Return to top
2. Interviews
There are a lot of interviews with Progressive Rock musicians on the Innerviews site.
Here are ELP articles and interviews.
Here are even more ELP articles and interviews.
There are a couple of interviews with the Flower Kings on their website.
The official Gentle Giant website has some interviews.
The Elephant Talk website has a huge collection of interviews with King Crimson band members and alumni.
Prog4you has a lot more than only Interviews.
Interviews with Renaissance band members and alumni can be found at Northern Lights.
The Transatlantic website. Here you can find band interviews.
"And I Heard a Million Voices Singing: Texture and Color in the Music of Rick Wakeman" is an article about the orchestrational techniques
used by Rick Wakeman in the music he has created with Yes, and on his own. It also includes a brief musicological treatise on progressive rock.
Yes interviews can be found at Notes from the edge. Have a look at the Yeshoo site for links to even more Yes interviews.
Return to top
3. Other bibliographies
A source for worldwide bibliographical data: the KVK.
Here is a Pop and Rock bibliography.
Here is a HUGE Pop and Rock bibliography.
Ghostland.com's Prog books page.
There is a bibliography on the rec.music.progressive website. It also has periodical publications.
Babyblaue Seiten.de is a german website which also has information on a couple of Prog books.
The great btf.it site has a small bibliography of italian Prog books. You can also buy some of them there.
Another great Prog bibliography is here at bomp.com.
Janell Duxbury, author of 'Rockin' the Classics and Classicizin' the Rock' has another great bibliography.
Bibliographie Populäre Musik in Deutschland (inkl. DDR), compiled by Peter Wicke, author of several books on german Rock and Pop Music.
Information on Italian books can be found here.
You can also check the books section of the PFM homepage.
The Brian Eno Bibliography is here.
Here is a Peter Gabriel bibliography.
The Genesis Museum has been an important bibliographical source. I "stole" some description from there.
Here is a Pink Floyd bibliography.
Return to top
4. Links to books pages, publishers', authors' and artists' pages, where you can order books
Information on Daevid Allen's books can be found here.
Jon Anderson's opio website, where you can also find some poems.
Dag Erik Asbjørnsen: Cosmic Dreams at play.
Peter Banks & Billy James: Beyond and Before. You might also want to have a look at the golden treasures publishing website or the Flash website.
Buy Paolo Barotto's book 'Il ritorno del Pop italiano' at btf.it.
Carsten Busch's 'File under Symfo'.
Marcelo Camerlo's 'The magic land' can be ordered here.
The original scores of Campo di Marte (1973) and of the new live album will be soon on the internet. Check Enrico Rosa's website or Campo di Marte's website.
John Covach's website.
Roger Dean's website.
Janell Duxbury's website.
Buy Janete El Haouli's book 'Demetrio Stratos' at btf.it.
Information on the progress of Keith Emerson's autobiography can be found at Keith Emerson's Website.
More information about 'Keith Emerson: Interviews' can be found here.
A website for David Gallant's 'Asia. The Heat Goes On'.
Gentle Giant website.
Francis Grosse's and Bernard Gueffier's 'La discographie alphabetique du Rock Français' can be ordered here.
Bernward Halbscheffel's doctoral thesis 'Rockmusik und klassisch-romantische Bildungstradition' has been published online. You might also want to check the author's website.
Peter Hammill's books.
Vernon Joynson's 'The Tapestry of delights'.
Vernon Joynson's 'Fuzz, Acid and Flowers'.
Jean-Louis Lafiteau's 'L'Encyclopédie Des Musiques Progressives' can be ordered here.
Greg Lake's website.
Tony Levin's website.
Lost Horizons has two interesting songbooks: ELP and King Crimson.
Modern drummer publications website.
Leonardo Nahoum's 'Enciclopédia Do Rock Progressivo' can be ordered here.
Get Giancarlo Nanni's book 'Rock progressivo inglese' here.
More information and a preview of Yvonne Nicholson's book on Jethro Tull can be found at Nicholson's website.
More information on Scott Allen Nollen's book on Jethro Tull can be found here.
Mike Oldfield's website.
The german Mike Oldfield website.
Articles about Mike Oldfield can be found here.
Check the Planetgong website for Gong related releases.
Information on Robin Platts' 'Genesis: Inside & Out' can be found here.
Enrico Rosa's site is here. Also visit his Campo di Marte website.
More information on David Shaw-Parker's 'The Lemming Chronicles' can be found here.
Information on Sid Smith's King Crimson book can be found at the DGM website. You can order the book here.
Eric Tamm's website. Here you can find his books on Robert Fripp and Brian Eno.
The Tullbooks page.
Buy Franco Vassia's 'I campi della memoria, semi di beat, folk & rock.' here.
For information about Peter Vickers' 'Genesis Collectibles' ask the author himself: petervickers@hotmail.com
David Watkinson: Perpetual change.
John Wetton's website.
Return to top
5. Online bookstores
amazon.com (US)
amazon.co.uk (UK)
amazon.de (Germany)
amazon.fr (France)
internetbook.it (Italy)
Return to top
6. Fun
Shakira is a Yes fan, wanna bet?
Ken Burns' Prog Rock series.
Two ELP Comics can be found here and here.
A Yes Comic
Return to top
7. Miscellanea
The Gibraltar Encyclopaedia of Progressive Rock.
Another Progressive Rock source.
A guide to prog webradios, radioshows and archived music.
There are not too many good Neo-Progressive bands, but Big Big Train and Bright Horizon are two of them.
Visit the great ELP-history website (in German).
Visit the official Genesis website.
Information on Gentle Giant sheet Music can be found at the Gentle Giant website.
A Jethro-Tull lyrics website.
Mark Graham has a website with King Crimson-trankriptions called The FraKctured Zone. Thanks to Daniel Rheault.
The Progressive Newsletter website.
The Phillip Rauls, a former promotion manager for Atlantic Records who worked with YES and ELP and King Crimson.
Radiant Records, what a record company!
For good Progressive Rock, see also rodulfo.com.
If you are interested in the austrian author Arthur Schnitzler, check arthur-schnitzler.de.
Searchmusicnetwork.
Check out sir eel records, the record company of Marl Stanley, Farquhar, Spirit Gang, god Radio and Blazz.
For good Progressive Rock, see also Steve's Staxdrum site.
Here you can find guitar tablature for Yes, ABWH, Steve Howe, Asia and GTR.
Another great Yes site can be found here.
Return to top
The young persons' guide to Progressive Rock books.
Desiderata.
Thematically sorted lists.
Literary references in Progressive Rock.
Songbooks list.
My wants list.
Send me an e-mail: bibmaster{at}progbibliography.de.
Go back
.