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Proto-prog groups

  • The BeatlesIn November 1956, a sixteen-year-old John Lennon formed a skiffle group with friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool.
  • Pink FloydIn 1965, four architecture students gathered in a tearoom basement at the London Polytechnic to play music under the name Sigma 6.
  • The Beach BoysOn the 20th of June 1958, Brian Wilson turned sixteen inside a bedroom he shared with his brothers Dennis and Carl in their family home in Hawthorne…
  • The DoorsOn a hot July day in 1965, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek crossed paths on Venice Beach. Both men had attended the UCLA School of Theater, Film and…