'Rock music that incorporates elements of traditional or classical music', surely a key art-rock principle is forging ahead, the shock of the new?
Captain Beefheart, often also known by his real name of Don Van Vliet is/was one of the greatest idiosyncratic figures in modern Californian music.
Captain Beefheart got loosey-goosey with 1972’s The Spotlight Kid, an album that took him into the US Billboard Top 200 for the first time.