Rick Wakeman was a session musician on David Bowie's Space Oddity and Cat Steven's Morning Has Broken before being part of progressive rock band YES for 13 years. (cats.org.uk)
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band that helped define the early sound of progressive rock with «A White Shade of Pale,» Procol Harum has released a record of 11 new songs titled Novum. (shepherdexpress.com)
From Benedict's perspective, we could say that the soft rock of the early seventies, which included Don McLean, a suburban alternative to Bob Dylan, was more Christian than progressive rock with its psychedelic pretensions. (firstthings.com)