简介：ProgRockBritanniaisacomprehensive,feature-lengthdocumentaryaboutprogressivemusicandthegenerationofbandsthatmadeit-fromtheinternationalsuccessstoriesofYes,Genesis,ELP,KingCrimsonandJethroTull,tothetrialsandtribulationsofthelesser-knownbandssuchasCaravanandEgg. Thefilmisstructuredinthreeparts,chartingthebirth,riseanddeclineofamovementfamedforcomplexmusicalstructures,weirdtimesignatures,technicalvirtuosityandstrange–quintessentiallyEnglish–literaryinfluences. ItlooksatthepsychedelicpopscenethatgavebirthtoprogressiverockinthelateSixties,thegoldenageofprogressivemusicintheearlySeventies–completewithdrumsolosandgatefoldrecordsleeves–andtheover-ambition,commercialisationandeventualfallfromgraceofthisrarefiedmusicalexperimentatthehandsofpunkin1977. Thedocumentaryisaprovocative,humorousbutaffectionatere-appraisalofamusicthatwasthevaluesystemofanall-too-briefperiodinBritishpopularmusic (转自VERYCD)…