ABSTRACT
By 1975 the inevitable had happened: never a homogenous genre of music to begin with, rock was not only fracturing into myriad substyles but also evolving into numerous fusion styles. The future was wide open, it seemed, for all kinds of experimentation; with the introduction of easy-to-operate synthesisers, a musician suddenly did not need skills to play or arrange a host of instruments or to hire a studio full of outside musicians. All conceivable sounds were at his or her fingertips. Moreover, musical influences from all over the world were now free for sampling and endless recycling.
