“It became cool to slag off prog, but what do you think these punk musicians did when they got home? Listened to the bands they’d been having a go at”: JJ Burnel on how Caravan inspired a Stranglers track

Caravan and JJ Burnel.

In 2009 Stranglers bassist JJ Burnel dispelled the myth that punks hated prog, and illustrated his point by telling Prog how a Caravan song had come to heavily influence one of the biggest-selling punk albums of all time.

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