 Many of the British musicians and bands that had embraced psychedelia moved into creating the progressive rock genre in the 1970s.King Crimson's album "In the Court of the Crimson King" (1969), has been seen as an important link between psychedelia and progressive rock.While some bands such as Hawkwind maintained an explicitly psychedelic course into the 1970s, most bands dropped the psychedelic elements in favour of embarking on wider experimentation.