query: genre john lees 
supports: Mel Pritchard (20 January 1948  28 January 2004) was the drummer with the British progressive rock band, Barclay James Harvest. Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band. They were founded in Oldham, in September 1966 by guitarist/vocalist John Lees (b. 1947), bassist/vocalist Les Holroyd (b. 1948), keyboardist/vocalist Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme (19472010), and drummer/percussionist Mel Pritchard (19482004). Manchester is a major city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 514,414 . It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.55 million. Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council. Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972; and designated a City Region on 1 April 2011. Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. Together with several smaller surrounding towns, it is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, of which it is the administrative centre. John Lees ( born 13 January 1947 , Oldham , Lancashire ) is an English musician who founded the rock band Barclay James Harvest . Educated at Robin Hill Secondary Modern and Breeze Hill School , Lees had no formal musical education , but took up playing the guitar when he was fourteen . Lees went on to study at Oldham School Of Art , where he met Stuart ' Woolly ' Wolstenholme in 1964 . They played together in The Sorcerers , playing Eddie Cochran - style rock and roll , and in The Blues Keepers , before forming Barclay James Harvest in 1967 . He recorded a solo album , A Major Fancy , in 1972 , but the release of this was tied up when the band changed record label . It was not released until 1977 . He also recorded a solo single for Polydor in 1974 , a cover of The Eagles track `` Best of My Love '' . In 1998 , musical differences saw the members of Barclay James Harvest agree to take a sabbatical . Lees again met up with Wolstenholme and formed Barclay James Harvest Through The Eyes of John Lees , and this band became John Lees ' Barclay James Harvest . Lees worked as a music technician at Crompton House Church of England High School , involved with the production of the GCSE and A Level students ' music and music technology coursework from 2006 until 2012 , when he retired . He was often involved in musical productions . Lees also enjoys reading , his favourite books being Graham Greene 's A Burnt - Out Case , science fiction novels ( especially those of Ray Bradbury ) and poetry . His hobbies include photography and amateur radio . Lees currently lives in Saddleworth , a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham with his wife , Olwen , and they have two children , Esther Jane ( born 28 July 1980 ) and John Joseph ( who shares his father 's birthday , being born on 13 January 1986 ) , plus various pets including an African grey parrot called Fritz . Progressive rock (shortened as "prog"; sometimes "art rock", "classical rock" or "symphonic rock") is a broad subgenre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its "progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening, not dancing.
candidates: art classical music government harvest james music pop progressive rock rock rock music urban
answer: pop