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The Show That Never Ends

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by David Weigel

Plant, Robert, 148

  “Plastics Nevermore,” 151

  “Please Don’t Ask,” 215

  Please Don’t Touch (Steve Hackett), 214–15

  “Please Don’t Touch,” 214–15

  Plymouth Guildhall (Plymouth, England), 68

  Poco, 154

  Pointer, Mick, 228, 243, 255

  Point of Know Return (Kansas), 161

  Police, The, 233, 236, 249, 265

  Polygram, 148, 150, 238, 239

  Poor, Kim, 214, 215

  Porcupine Tree, 254–59, 276, 277

  Portnoy, Mike, 259–61, 270–72

  Pouncey, Edwin, 242

  Powell, Cozy, 238, 239

  “Power,” xvi, 281, 286

  Power Windows (Rush), 260

  Powis Square (London, England), 97

  Prasad, Anil, 9, 234

  Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), xvii, xviii, 153–55

  Premoli, Flavio, 153

  Pretty Things, The, 25

  Prince, 255

  Procol Harum

  and Aphrodite’s Child, 151

  “A Whiter Shade of Pale” for, 21–24

  Tony Banks on, 79

  and Deram Records, 44

  Peter Gabriel’s cover of, 224

  Kerry Livgren on, 160

  Shine On Brightly album, 32–33

  Prog (magazine), 283–84

  Progression (magazine), xvii

  Prokofiev, Sergei, 188, 189

  “Promenade,” 4, 86

  “Propositions,” 78

  Psychedelic Baby, 257

  “Pull Me Under,” 270–71

  Puttnam, David, 223

  Queen, 202

  Queen Elizabeth Hall (London, England), 128–29

  Quelli, I, 153

  Quick One, A (The Who), xv

  “Quick One, While He’s Away, A,” xv

  Quicksilver Messenger Service, 160

  Rabin, Trevor, 211, 230, 235–37, 263

  Radio London, 23

  Rainbow Takeaway (Ayers), 179–80

  Rainbow Theatre (London, England), 131

  Raisins, The, 249

  Ralfini, Ian, 26

  Ramones, 284

  Rand, Ayn, 163

  Rand, Paul, 165

  Ratledge, Mike, 8, 17, 25, 26, 129

  Ravel, Maurice, 5, 144

  Raw (magazine), 269

  RCA Corporation, 184

  Reading Festival, 80, 240–41, 258

  “Realisation,” 37

  Record Industry Association of America, 200

  Record Mirror, 88

  Red (King Crimson), 264, 267

  “Red,” 269

  Redding, Otis, 59

  Red Hooker, 176

  Red Hot Chili Peppers, xi

  Reed, Lou, 180

  Reich, Steve, 220

  Reid, Keith, 21, 32

  Reinhardt, Django, 58, 281

  Relayer (Yes), 137

  “Revealing Science of God, The (Dance of Dawn),” 113–14

  Reynolds, Simon, xi

  “Rhythm of the Heat, The,” 226

  “Rich Girl,” 183

  Riley, Terry, 9, 26

  “R.I.P. (Requiescant in Pace),” 154–55

  Rip It Up and Start Again (Simon Reynolds), xi

  “Ripples,” 177

  Rite of Spring, The (Igor Stravinsky), 5

  “Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil),” 114

  “Rivendell,” 149

  Roads, Dusty (Robert Fripp), 181

  Roche, Maggie, 195

  Roche, Suzzy, 195, 196

  Roche, Terre, 195, 196

  Roches, The, 195, 196

  Roches, The (The Roches), 196

  Rock Bottom (Robert Wyatt), 131–33

  Rocking the Classics (Edward Macan), xv–xvi

  Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, xi

  Rock Snob’s Dictionary, The (David Kamp), xi

  Rodgers, Richard, 51

  Rodríguez-López, Omar, 273

  Rolling Stone

  on . . . And Then There Were Three, 199

  Jon Anderson interview with, 105

  best albums ever lists, xi

  on Buggles-Yes hybrid, 206

  ELP interviews with, 191–92

  on Emerson, Lake & Powell, 238

  on Fragile, 93

  Robert Fripp interview with, 123, 169

  on Genesis tour, 173

  on progressive music, xii

  on Works album, 190

  Rolling Stones, The, 48–49, 101, 136, 148, 243

  “Rondo,” 27, 86

  Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club (London, England), 93–94

  Rothery, Steve, 228, 241, 245, 250–52

  Rotters’ Club, The (Jonathan Coe), 281–82

  “Roundabout,” 91–92, 102, 206

  Roussos, Demis, 151

  Roxy Music, 197, 208, 209

  Royal Albert Hall (London, England), 36, 83–85

  Royal Bath & West Showground (Shepton Mallet, England), 225

  Rudess, Jordan, 270

  Rundgren, Todd, 157–59, 176

  “Run with the Fox,” 235

  Rush

  Canadian rise of, 147–51

  in I Love You, Man, 283

  international rise of, 162–67

  Ted Leo on, 284

  and Majesty/Dream Theater, 260, 271

  and Marillion, 228

  Russell, Ken, 139

  Rutherford, Mike

  on auditioning vocalists, 176

  on Peter Gabriel, 225

  on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, 174

  in Mike + the Mechanics, 252, 274

  on post-Hackett Genesis, 198, 199

  and rise of Genesis, 81

  and success of Phil Collins/Genesis, 216, 231, 232

  on A Trick of the Tail, 177–78

  Rutsey, John, 147, 148

  Sabicas, 93

  Sacred Songs (Darryl Hall), 183–85, 194

  “Sage, The,” 86

  Sail in My Boat (Gordon Haskell), 59

  Salmon, Godfrey, 191

  Saloman, Nick (Bevis Frond), 256

  Sanchez, Claudio, 272–73

  Sanders, Rick, 187

  Santana, 154

  “Sara Smile,” 183

  “Score, The,” 238

  Scorsese, Martin, 274

  Scott, Ridley, 215

  “Script for a Jester’s Tear,” 241–42

  Scythian Suite (Sergei Prokofiev), 189

  Seal (artist), 268

  “Sea Song,” 132

  Seasons End (Marillion), 251, 252

  Second Stage Turbine Blade, The (Coheed and Cambria), 272

  “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” 118

  “Seven Is a Jolly Good Time,” 78, 109

  Sex Pistols, 163, 164, 202

  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles), xiv, 60, 79

  Shadows, The, 152

  Shame, The, 41–42

  “Sheep,” 91

  Sheffield City Hall (Sheffield, England), 162

  “Sheltering Sky, The,” 248

  Sherborne House, See International Academy for Continuous Education

  Shine On Brightly (Procol Harum), 32–33

  Ship club (London, England), 30

  Shulman, Derek, 11, 108, 201, 271

  Shulman, Phil, 108

  Shulman, Ray, 11, 112

  Sibelius, Jean, 144

  Sideras, Lucas, 151

  Signals (Rush), 161, 166

  “Silent Sun, The,” 34

  Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, 7

  Simpson, Dave, 258

  Sinatra, Frank, 176

  Sinclair, Dave, 108

  Sinclair, Richard, 107, 108, 141–42

  Sinfield, Peter

  in ELP, 135

  and founding of King Crimson, 42, 43

  on “Good Fairy” concept, 63

  and Greg Lake, 187–89

  lyrics of, 54, 61, 102

  and Photos of Ghosts, 154

  and post-Lake King
Crimson, 57–59

  on progressive music, xiv–xv

  promotion of Thrak album by, 268

  and rise of King Crimson, 49–51

  “Singing the Blues,” 12

  Sipple, John, 45–46

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 165

  666 (Aphrodite’s Child), 152

  Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (Rick Wakeman), 110–11, 116

  “Sky Moves Sideways, The,” 259

  “Sleepers Awake,” 22

  “Sleepless,” 248

  Smash Hits, 204

  Smile (Beach Boys), 44

  Smith, Judge, 45, 46

  Smith, Patti, 176

  Smith, Sid, 43, 192, 222

  Smiths, 256

  Smyth, Gilli, 131

  Soft Machine

  after Kevin Ayers, 118, 119

  Daevid Allen on Kevin Ayers and, 240

  on BBC Proms, 83–85

  Fish on, 243

  founding of, 17

  and Gong, 156

  at Marquee and UFO clubs, 19, 20

  Steve Peacock on, 129

  Mike Ratledge in, 130

  rise of, 24–27

  and Soft Machine Legacy, xix

  Dave Stewart on, 109

  and Wilde Flowers, 107

  Robert Wyatt in, 131

  Soft Machine Legacy, xix

  “Solsbury Hill,” 180

  “Someone Get Me a Ladder” tour, 185

  Something/Anything? (Todd Rundgren), 158

  “Something in 4/4 Time,” 183–84

  “Somethings’s Coming,” 31

  Song for America (Kansas), 160

  “Song of the Jazzman,” 9

  Songs of a Lifetime tour, 286

  Sonneck, O. G., 2–3

  Soundgarden, 257

  Sounds

  Jon Anderson interview with, 95

  Dave Brock interview with, 96

  Phil Collins interview with, 177

  on ELP’s Works tour, 191

  Keith Emerson interview with, 68–69

  on Foxtrot album, 83

  Robert Fripp interview with, 124

  Steve Hackett interview with, 215

  Peter Hammill interview with, 107

  Lemmy Kilmister interview with, 141

  Greg Lake interview with, 77

  Mike Oldfield interview with, 144

  Carl Palmer interview with, 75

  Neil Peart interview with, 149

  on Pictures at an Exhibition album, 87

  Mike Rutherford interview in, 199

  Rick Wakeman interview with, 91

  Alan White interview with, 110

  South Bank Show, 226

  “South Side of the Sky,” 92, 93

  Speakeasy Club (London, England), 23, 48, 55, 102

  Spin (magazine), 284

  Spirit (band), 160

  “Spirit of Radio, The,” 165

  Spock’s Beard, 264

  Spontaneous Underground series, 24

  Spooky Tooth, 40

  Springfields, 91

  Springsteen, Bruce, 176

  Squire, Chris

  on 90125 album, 235, 236

  and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, 262

  in Buggles-Yes hybrid, 203, 205, 207

  on Close to the Edge, 104

  on Cruise to the Edge, xix, xx

  firing of Brian Lane by, 208

  and formation of Yes, 30–32

  Greg Lake vs., 54

  and post-Banks Yes, 69–72

  and post-Kaye Yes, 89–93

  rebuilding of Yes by, 274

  in The Syn, 20

  on Tales from Topographic Oceans, 113

  “St. Elmo’s Fire,” 171

  “St. Stephen,” 44

  Star-Club (Hamburg, Germany), 24

  “Starless,” 211

  Starr, Ringo, 139

  “Starship Trooper,” 71–72

  “Star-Spangled Banner,” 218

  Star Trek (television series), 264

  Stevens, Cat, 23

  Stevens, Diane, 21

  Stevens, Guy, 21

  Stewart, Dave, xvii, 78, 109, 209

  Stewart, Rod, 190

  “Still . . . You Turn Me On,” 135

  Still Life (Opeth), 273

  Still Life (Van der Graaf Generator), 178

  Stobbie, Mike, 244

  Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 5–6, 133

  Stone, Steve, 271

  Storia di un Minuto (Premiata Forneria Marconi), 153, 154

  Stratton-Smith, Tony, 46, 56, 198, 200

  Stravinksy, Igor, xix, 5, 102

  Strawbs, 89, 91

  Stray (band), 162

  Strike, Don, 12

  Stump, Paul, xvii, 43, 200, 244

  Styx, 214, 236

  “Styx Enterprises,” 81

  Summary of the History and Development of Medieval and Modern European Music (C. Hubert H. Parry), 4

  Summers, Andy, 133, 249, 265

  “Summertime,” 51

  “Sunshine,” 45

  “Supper’s Ready,” 81–82, 107, 177

  “Surrey with a Fringe on Top,” 51

  Swanson Family Hotel (Melbourne, Australia), 6, 7

  “Swastika Girls,” 126

  Sweet, The, 127

  “Sweetness,” 31

  Swenson, John, 101

  Switched-On Bach (Wendy Carlos), 66

  “Switched-On Symphony” concert, 74

  Sylvian, David, 258, 266

  Symphony no. 4 in E Minor, op. 98: Allegro Giocoso (Brahms), 92

  Syn, The, 20, 25, 30

  Tait, Michael, 73

  “Take a Pebble,” 66, 68

  Tales from Topographic Oceans (Yes)

  and Fish, 243

  live playing of, xix

  recording of, 112–16

  Relayer and, 137

  Tormato vs., 204

  Rick Wakeman during, 138–39

  Talking Heads, 218, 220, 221

  Tamm, Eric, 219

  Tangerine Dream, xviii, 243

  Tarkus (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), 76–77, 85–87, 270

  “Tarkus” suite, 75–76, 136, 289

  Tarquin’s Seaweed Farm (Porcupine Tree), 254–55

  Taylor, Cecil, 8

  Tchaikovsky, Modest, 4

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 4, 87

  Television (band), 181

  “Temples of Syrinx,” 150

  “That’s All,” 231

  “That Time of the Night,” 245

  The, The, 251

  “Thela Hun Ginjeet,” 247

  Thériault, Jean-Yves “Blacky,” 263

  Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull), 99–101, 111

  Third (Soft Machine), 84

  Thorgerson, Storm, 273

  Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, The (The Nice), 27

  Thrak (King Crimson), 268

  Three Friends, xix

  Three of a Perfect Pair (King Crimson), 248

  “Three of a Perfect Pair,” 248

  “Three Score and Four,” 49

  Three Tenors, The, 88

  “Time,” 118

  Time and a Word (Yes), 70

  “Time Table,” 81

  Tippett, Keith, 56, 59

  “Tocatta,” 135

  “Tocatta con Fuoco,” 187

  Todaro, Marcello, 155

  Todd Rundgren’s Utopia (band), 157, 158

  Tolkien, J. R. R., 149, 227, 251

  Tolstoy, Leo, 137

  Tommy (The Who), 25, 32, 93, 139

  Tomorrow (band), 25, 70

  “Tom Sawyer,” 166

  Tool (band), 269

  “Too Old to Go ’Way Little Girl,” 41–42

  Top, Jannick, 156, 157

  Top Gear (radio show), 127

  Top of the Pops (television series), 133, 216

  Top Pops and Music Now, 44–45

  Tormato (Yes), 202–3, 204

  “Total Mass Retain,” 104

  Toto, 213

  Touch (band), 160

  “Touch
and Go,” 238

  Townshend, Pete, 20, 23–25, 32–33, 52

  “Travel Weary Capricorn,” 49–50

  “Treatise on Cosmic Fire, A,” 159

  “Trees,” 164

  Trespass (Genesis), 79, 80

  Trewavas, Pete, 251

  Trick of the Tail, A (Genesis), 177

  Trident Studios, 46, 79, 80

  Trilogy (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), 135

  “Troika,” 188

  “Tröller tanz (Troll’s Dance),” 157

  Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield)

  Karl Dallas’s interview about, 142

  Hergest Ridge vs., 143, 144, 146

  and Porcupine Tree, 255

  recording of, 121–23

  release of, 117

  tour for, 126–30

  “Tuesday Afternoon,” 29

  Turner, Nik, 97

  “21st Century Schizoid Man,” xvi, 49–51, 61, 75, 93

  2112 (Rush), 150–51, 162–63

  Üdü W`üdü (Magma), 157

  UEG (Union Entertainment Group), x

  UFO Club (London, England), 19–20, 23, 30

  U.K. (U.K), 210

  U.K. (band), 209–11

  Ulrich, Lars, 262

  Ummagumma (Pink Floyd), 45

  “Under Heavy Manners,” 218

  “Undertow,” 200

  Union (Yes), 263, 274

  Union Entertainment Group (UEG), x

  Union tour, 263

  “United Blacksprings International,” 81

  University of California Berkeley, 9

  Unterberger, Richie, 157

  Up the Downstair (Porcupine Tree), 258

  Uriah Heep, 170

  Uriel (band), 78

  Us (Peter Gabriel), 274

  “Us and Them,” 118

  “Utopia Theme,” 158

  Valentine, Penny, 86, 91, 110

  Vander, Christian, 156, 157

  Vander, Stella, 156

  Van der Graaf Generator (VdGG)

  and John Anthony, 79

  Farewell’s tour with, 178

  Peter Hammill in, 197, 285

  at NEARfest, 279

  Pawn Hearts album, 106–7

  rise of, 45–47

  and Rush, 149

  Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou), 137, 151–52, 222–23

  Vanity Fair, xi

  van Leer, Thijs, xvi

  VdGG, See Van der Graaf Generator

  Venture Bros., The (television series), xi

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 140

  Verne, Jules, 116

  Victoria Park (London, England), 286

  “Video Killed the Radio Star,” 203, 205, 206

  Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (Fish), 251–52

  Village Voice, 194

  “Villa Strangiato, La,” 164–65

  V.I.P.s, 19, 20

  Virgin Airlines, 117

  Virgin Records, 117, 122, 127–32, 142, 144

  Visconti, Tony, 182–83

  “Vision, A,” 260

  “Vivaldi,” 78

  Voivod, 263–64, 273

  Voyage of the Acolyte (Steve Hackett), 214, 215

  Wagner, Richard, 140

  Wainman, Phil, 18

  Wakeman, Rick

  in Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, 262, 263

  beers of the world interview of, 138

  on Close to the Edge, 103–5

  departure from Yes, 197, 202–4, 222

 

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