Hello, and welcome to the new issue of Prog magazine. So, what was the first prog album then? I’m sure everyone will have an opinion, and I’m equally sure those opinions are likely to wildly differ! Now we’re not saying that The Moody Blues’ Days Of Future Passed was actually the first prog album, but it was certainly one of them. A conceptual suite that introduced the idea of orchestral, symphonic rock, it certainly set The Moody Blues on a course to amazing success, selling in the region of 70 million albums over the years! In this issue we tell the story behind the groundbreaking release, which Rolling Stone originally claimed was “drowning itself in conceptual goo”, hence our coverline, but later reassessed as one of the essential albums of 1967.