Even Geoff Downes' and Steve Howe's post-Yes supergroup Asia blazed a trail of radio friendly stadium rock, it seemed like all the old prog bands were, well, progressing. There can be no coincidence that in the late '70s and early '80s several of the big names of prog's first wave - Emerson, Lake and Palmer or Gentle Giant for instance - split up, whilst others, like Genesis and Rush, moved further away stylistically and musically from their traditional sound, embracing new sounds and new technologies you adapt to survive. By 1983 punk and new wave had fizzled out and the new Romantics and electro outsiders ruled the charts and, with MTV making huge waves, the emphasis on style over content was starting to enter the language of the era causing huge detrimental effects on those artists who had always been substance over style. ![]() Three years is a long time in music, when Yes had last released a new album John Lennon was still alive and Led Zeppelin hadn't split up.
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