For Young Moderns

At the end of the 1970s, bandleader Bill Nelson dissolved Be-Bop Deluxe and founded a new kind of band. Red Noise saw him embrace the burgeoning new wave movement – and although they released just one album, it paved the way for his solo career. With the recent release of the expanded Sound-On-Sound and its companion box set, Art/Empire/Industry, Nelson takes Prog on a trip back to the group’s creation.

Julian Marszalek

Possibly the greatest myth surrounding rock, pop and all points in between is that music moves in a strictly demarcated linear fashion with distinct boundaries and cut-off points. Indeed, these are the narratives that push the notion that established musical ideas and forms become obsolete the moment the Next Big Thing arrives. But as anyone with a keen eye on popular culture will attest, the development is more akin to the flow of a powerful river; while it moves ahead towards the sea, it contains within it currents, tides and patterns of flow that frequently overlap and mingle without one, single dominant force at play. So it is that there are those whose ideas might be out of kilter with prevailing trends or even looking several generations ahead. Ergo Bill…

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