That's a cool subject and always something I'm looking after. 10CC's The Original Soundtrack has some great progpop songs on it like One Night In Paris. Bought it recently on CD. Gino Vanelli made some fine albums in the seventies. I've got a couple of LP's, like Brother To Brother.

I also loved a lot of those so called New Wave bands that had much progressive elements in their music, like Simple Minds (New Gold Dream with even a keyboard-solo from Herbie Hancock!), Talk Talk (It's My Life, Colour Of Spring), The Fixx (produced by the great Rupert Hine), Comsat Angels (with interesting keyboard-patterns) and so on.

There're so much bands that put progressive elements in their music, but a band like Radiohead refused to admit that OK Computer was partly based on ideas directly related to the music of King Crimson etc. The whole new English movement of Coldplay etc. has that too.

One of my favorites the last couple of years is Archive.

Most of Steve Hackett's stuff POST-Defector.... Cured mostly... Highly Strung is another...

I never really liked Cured; the cover was wrong (Steve even looked sick, not cured... - I rather saw Kim Poor's beautiful stuff), the drummachine wasn't good, Steve's vocals never sounded weaker. Yeah, it's probably the less proggy Hackett, although he also produced some blues-like stuff. Highly Strung was good though (more back to prog), so was Bay Of Kings, which was almost classical.