“In the past, Italy was always regarded as being the center of musical culture and now it would seem that it’s spreading out again. I honestly feel that, very shortly, America will start listening quite seriously to a lot of new European bands. I don’t think it will be restricted to Italy.”18 Throughout the decade, “progressive” music came to include ever-more-exploratory sounds from Europe. The British press embraced, and unfortunately named, the “Krautrock” movement of German bands that were more experimental and less wedded to old European song structures.
