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Prog Rock Gets Some Respect In 'The Show That Never Ends'

David Weigel is primarily a political reporter, but in The Show that Never Ends he spins his love of prog rock into a detailed, affectionate history of a genre that's never completely gone away.
Source: Claire Harbage

David Weigel is known primarily as a political reporter for and a regular commentator on MSNBC. In 2012, though, he indulged in an entirely different passion for : He wrote a five-part series of essays about progressive rock called , chronicling the rise and fall of prog in the '60s and '70s. Weigel focused on the genre's major players — bands like Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro

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