"The borders between what gets termed prog rock and post punk were far
more porous and negligently policed than the conventional histories of
either have tended to credit. How did John Lydon transform British music
for a second time in two years? By walking backwards into his teenage
loves of prog acts such as Van der Graaf Generator and Captain
Beefheart. The Fall may have loudly scoffed at hippiedom, but they
emerged from a Hawkwind-listening, spliff-smoking, psychedelic-gobbling
counterculture in Prestwich that owed a lot to those ideals. ..."
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