As Britain claimed its role as the beating heart of ’70s prog-rock, Premiata Forneria Marconi (widely known as PFM) blazed a trail with romantic opuses steeped in genre-bending, intricately woven Italian lyricism. Spanning folk and symphonic music, their essential debut album Storia di un minuto (1972) melded graceful flute trills with meaty synth rock, while inventive swerves into avant-garde and jazz fusion on follow-up LPs—as well as the inclusion of English lyrics—brought the band international success. Still roaming prog’s sweeping realms, PFM take pride in a songbook brimming with classics.