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In all the interminable books, memoirs, articles and TV documentaries contemplating punk, there’s one thing they all seem to agree upon: punk rock killed progressive rock. “Almost overnight, after the Sex Pistols, prog rock came to a halt,” declaimed one pundit in a BBC documentary. Very well phrased – but factually totally untrue.
The fact that Johnny Rotten once wore a Pink Floyd T-shirt with the words ‘I hate’ scrawled in felt-tip above the band’s name is always held up as evidence that punk was some kind of reaction to prog. Yet Rotten (as John Lydon) was a huge fan of Hawkwind, on ice is just absurd.
