Editing Art rock (section)

===1970s–1990s===
{{See also|New wave music}}
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Art rock's greatest level of popularity was in the early 1970s through British artists including [[King Crimson]] and [[Queen (band)|Queen]].<ref name=britannica/>

[[File:David Bowie 1975.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|[[David Bowie]] photographed in 1974]]
Early in the decade, Pink Floyd released ''[[Atom Heart Mother]]'', with the 23-minute title track taking up the entire first side of the LP. This experiment with collaborator [[Ron Geesin]] yielded the longest unbroken Pink Floyd song on record, a suite divided into six parts, which required the band at times to utilise a choir and brass section on tour. The album was a commercial success, giving the band to its first number one record in the UK. It signalled a shift in their music from the psychedelic forays of their late '60s albums and into a period of renewed creativity in the form of longer and more progressive rock music.

Enthusiasm for art rock explorations waned in the mid 1970s.{{sfn|Campbell|2012|p=251}} From then to the 1990s, art rock was infused within various popular music genres.<ref name=britannica/> ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' states that its genre's tendencies were continued by some British and American [[hard rock]] and [[pop rock]] artists, and that [[Brian Eno]]'s late 1970s and early 1980s collaborations with [[David Bowie]] and [[Talking Heads]] are exemplary of "the successful infusion of art rock tendencies into other popular music genres".<ref name=britannica/> Bowie and Eno collaborated on a series of consecutive albums called the "[[Berlin Trilogy]]", characterised as an "art rock trifecta" by ''[[Consequence of Sound]]'', who noted that at the time of their release, "The experimental records weren't connecting with audiences on the scale Bowie was used to. ... [[New wave music|New Wave]] had exploded, and a generation of Bowie descendants had taken the stage."<ref>{{cite web |website=[[Consequence of Sound]]|title=Ranking: Every David Bowie Album From Worst to Best|date=8 January 2018|url=https://consequence.net/2018/01/ranking-dissected-david-bowie/ | first1=Blake | last1=Goble | first2=Cap | last2=Blackard | first3=Pat | last3=Levy | first4=Lior | last4=Phillips | first5=David | last5=Sackllah | access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref>

In the 1980s, a new generation of English art rockers took the place of 1970s bands such as [[Roxy Music]],<ref name="AM">[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p108518|pure_url=yes}} "Roxy Music > Biography"]. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Allmusic. Accessed 12 February 2020.</ref> [[Yes (band)|Yes]], [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] and [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]]. Journalist Roy Trakin said in 1981: "Of course, these stalwarts can still fill [[Madison Square Garden]] and sell a great many records, as they always have, but their days of adventurous risk-taking and musical innovation are long gone – replaced by the smug satisfaction of commercial success."<ref name="Trakin1981">{{Cite journal|last1=Trakin|first1=Roy|title=The New English Art Rock|journal=[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]|date=February 1981|issue=30|url=http://chalkhills.org/articles/Musician198102.html}}</ref>

In the early 1980s, the art rock genre influenced the emerging post-punk and new wave movements, as bands incorporated experimental and avant-garde elements that were hallmarks of art rock. Groups such as Talking Heads and Roxy Music utilized art rock’s emphasis on artistic expression and experimental sounds to push boundaries within popular music. Notably, Roxy Music's use of synthesizers and visual aesthetics, influenced by art rock, became central to their identity and inspired later genres, including synth-pop and new wave.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rathbone |first=Oregano |date=2024-06-09 |title=What Is Art Rock? A History Of Music's Most Progressive Minds |url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/in-depth-features/rock-for-arts-sake/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=uDiscover Music |language=en-US}}</ref>