Gentle Giant Home Page

Welcome to the official Gentle Giant Web Site! Combining diverse elements from rock, classical, jazz, soul, blues, and the avante-garde, and playing more than 30 instruments, Gentle Giant created some of the greatest music of the 1970s progressive rock era. If you are unfamiliar with Gentle Giant, we hope this web site will encourage you to sample their unique music. To old fans and friends: step inside and share some memories of old days.

News

• 2020-12-25: A recently discovered backstage interview from 1980!
• 2020-10-04: My neuroscientist wife has a new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, a collection of short essays about that amazing gray blob between your ears. Her previous book was on the secret life of the brain, titled How Emotions are Made. Very proud husband!
• 2020-09-06: Official t-shirts are available at GentleGiantBand.com.
• 2020-07-15: The Gentle Giant virtual reunion happened!
• 2020-07-08: Watch for a Gentle Giant virtual reunion on July 15, 2020!
• 2020-05-21: A new book, Gentle Giant: Every Album, Every Song, is due to be published on June 25, 2020.
• 2020-05-09: Fifty years ago today, GG played their very first gig! (At the Student Union of Portsmouth Polytechnic.)
• 2020-04-21: The website is now mobile friendly.
• 2020-04-20: The website has moved to gentlegiantmusic.com (was blazemonger.com) on a faster server.
• Older announcements

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