Introduction Progressive rock is one of those genres that had an influence on popular music culture. Its effects gone far beyond than music culture, so it founded a new subculture. Progressive rock was born in late1960’s as a reflection to what happens in the society. Likewise the other genres progressive rock was also interconnected with society. It grabbed attention of middle class and boomed very fast. Starting from end of 1960’s till the late 1970’s music became very popular. In 1980’s it started to lose its popularity as result of creation of new genres such as: punk rock and new wave. Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Yes and ELP were the most popular successors of this genre. Roots and History Progressive rock is mixture of rock and different music genres such as: folk, jazz, classical, that is why it is hard to define roots of progressive rock. However, most of the researchers think progressive rock’s roots goes to psychedelic rock. The genre has also been called “classical rock”, “art rock” and “symphonic rock” [Kev13]. Country of origin of this genre is Britain. It was British attempt to take rock to a different artistic level of creativity. However, it crossed the bother of UK at early stages and gained popularity in France, Germany and Italy. Mostly was music of white males that belong to middle class. It was not a high or low music. It was music in between that both high and low music fans listen. There is no exact date of creation. Most of the musicians and music researchers think early musical patterns have seen in Beatles’Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that produced in 1967. However the other group of people think it started with band called Pink Floyd. The name of genre appeared as “progressive rock” in 1969. During 1969-1974 in a lot of new bands appeared such as: Genesis, Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Gentle Giant and the others. Some non-progressive bands such as Queen started to examine themselves in progressive rock. Progressive rock bands realised their most popular albums throughout these 5 years [Vin11]. We can give example of Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the moon, The Wall, Genesis’ Brain Salad Surgery, Gentle Giant’s Free Hands, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells (sold 16 million copies) albums. In Late 1970’s situation in all spheres of life changed. Hippie movement that played a huge role in popularity of progressive rock has been declined. That made progressive rock old- fashioned and it started to lose its popularity. New genres such as Punk and New Wave started to gain popularity and destroyed utopic stories of progressive rockers.. The record companies started to disappear and replaced by huge music corporations that cared more on profit rather than quality of music. That made corporations to step forward along the mainstream (Martin, 2002). A lot of progressive bands started to disappear. Musical Characteristic Progressive rock has a lot of sub-genr