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This week in 1974: progressive rock group Yes scored their first UK #1 album with the double-LP set, Tales From Topographic Oceans, on Atlantic Records; the four-piece work of symphonic length & scope was based on the Shastric scriptures, as found in a footnote within Paramahansa Yoganandas book Autobiography of a Yogi; the songs symbolised the concepts of Truth, Knowledge, Culture & Freedom; on release, it received notably hostile reviews - Rolling Stone (for one) described it as psychedelic doodling; the album became a whipping boy for what some considered to be the self-indulgent excesses of the mid-70s prog rock era & served as a rallying point for what would become punk rock...
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 04:20:19 +0000

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