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Classic rock is a broad rock music category that generally refers to guitar-driven rock styles that emerged between the mid-1960s and the late 1970s. Rather than representing a single sound…
Progressive rock, often shortened to prog rock, is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the late 1960s as artists began to push beyond the traditional boundaries of popular…
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