Neo-progressive rock

Neo-progressive rock (or often shortened to neo-prog, not to be confused with the significantly more modern New prog) is a sub-genre of progressive rock, developed in the UK and popular in the 1980s, although it lives on today In the book "The Progressive Rock Files", author Jerry Lucky dedicates a chapter on Neo-progressive rock with the title "A Neo Beginning!", stating that this sub-genre "surfaced in late 1981, bearing testimony to the lasti... more
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