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I think it would be more fair to say that the prog efforts of the 70s were inspired to a great extent by the Beatles. This is obviously a somewhat silly statement, since the Beatles were arguably the most influential act in rock history and probably directly inspired almost every artist in rock between 1965 and 1978 in some way. I think people don't realize just what a wide variety of music the Beatles recorded, and how much ground they broke in popular music.
The Beatles were to rock what Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis - together! - were to jazz.
I think this is more illustrative of the failings of labelling styles of music. After all, I find that Phish has a lot in common with prog, but labelling them as such doesn't really seem to fit. (There's jazz music which also has some affinity with prog.)
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