[QUOTE] [b]Rich Tea wrote:[/b]
Very interesting article. I am friends with Captain Sensible of The Damned and he is a Queen fan and has said to me in the past Punk was a revolt against bands like Genesis, Yes and ELP and their 25 minute keyboard solos and songs about Pixies. At the end of the day the mid to late 70's in the UK were pretty dire and Punk Rock and all that followed (New Wave, Ska, New Romantics) was an inevitable consequence. The thing with Queen was they were a Rock Band and Pop Group all rolled into one but never fashionable i think it was only in the mid eighties that Queen finally got the recognition they deserved. [/QUOTE]
It was a strange time in music. I always thought that the punk ideology of sweeping away all that came before failed in that respect.
From 77 to 79 those so callled dinosaur bands all became bigger and more successful. Floyd released Animals and then The Wall. Both very much a product of the 70's and both sold in huge numbers and the live shows were over blown and everything that punk was against.
77 to 78 saw Fleetwood Mac, ELO, ELP and Led Zeppelin all become huge or in Zep's case build on the already huge success 77 saw Queen become a genuine arena headlining band who just grew and grew from there
Genesis rose from being a big arena act in the 70's to mega stardom in the 80's.
The fact is that as a commercial proposition Punk trailed all of the established big acts around the world.
The New Wave and New Romantic movement became as famous and remembered for the look as much as the music, few of those bands lasted and even less would go on to be able to headline big venues 30 years down the line.
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