Japan by the Palmer Guitar Company Around 19861988 State of the Art

English progressive rock band

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The band in Toronto, 1978
Background information
Origin	Croydon, London
Genres	Progressive rock art rock[1]
Years active	1970–1979 1990–1999 2010–2019
Labels	Island Cotillion Atlantic Manticore Sanctuary Rhino Shout! Manufactory Victor Sony Music Orizzonte Razor & Tie Victory Eagle
Associated acts	Emerson, Lake & Powell 3 The Nice Diminutive Rooster King Crimson Asia
Website	emersonlakepalmer.com
Past members	Keith Emerson Greg Lake Carl Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in Apr 1970.^{[2] [three]} The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (vocals, bass, guitar and producer) and Carl Palmer (drums and percussion). With nine RIAA-certified gold tape albums in the Usa,^[four] and an estimated 48 1000000 records sold worldwide,^[5] they were one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock bands in the 1970s,^{[6] [7]} with a musical sound including adaptations of classical music with jazz and symphonic rock elements, dominated by Emerson'due south flamboyant apply of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and piano (although Lake wrote several audio-visual songs for the group).^[viii]

The band came to prominence following their performance at the Island of Wight Festival in August 1970. In their first yr, the grouping signed with East.G. Records (who distributed the band's records through Island Records in the Britain, and Atlantic Records in North America), and released Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970) and Tarkus (1971), both of which reached the UK elevation 5. The band'due south success continued with Pictures at an Exhibition (1971), Trilogy (1972), and Brain Salad Surgery (1973, released on ELP's own Manticore Records label). After a three-year break, Emerson, Lake & Palmer released Works Volume 1 (1977) and Works Volume 2 (1977). Later on Beloved Beach (1978), the group disbanded in 1979.

The band reformed partially in the 1980s equally Emerson, Lake & Powell featuring Cozy Powell in place of Palmer, who was by then, a member of Asia. Robert Drupe so replaced Lake while Palmer returned, forming three. In 1991, the original trio reformed and released two more albums, Black Moon (1992) and In the Hot Seat (1994), and toured at diverse times betwixt 1992 and 1998. Their final operation took place in 2010 at the High Voltage Festival in London to commemorate the band's 40th anniversary. Both Emerson and Lake died in 2016,^{[9] [x] [11]} leaving Palmer as the only surviving member of the band.

History [edit]

1969–1970: Formation and first gigs [edit]

The band originated in tardily 1969, when The Overnice keyboardist Keith Emerson and Male monarch Cherry-red bassist and vocalizer Greg Lake met when both groups were on tour. Emerson was looking to form a new band and Lake wished to get out Rex Crimson,^[12] and later initial discussions virtually the possibility of forming a group in New York Urban center, the pair met two months later in Dec 1969 when The Nice and King Cerise were billed together for concerts at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. During a soundcheck before one of the shows, Emerson described the commencement time he and Lake played together: "Greg was moving a bass line and I played the piano in back and Zap! Information technology was there."^[13] When the Nice split in March 1970 and Lake left Male monarch Ruby a month later on, the pair began the search for a drummer, which turned out to exist a difficult procedure.^[14] They initially approached Mitch Mitchell, who was at a loose end following the breakdown of The Jimi Hendrix Feel and suggested a jam session accept place amidst the iii of them and guitarist Jimi Hendrix. The session never happened, but it caused the press to report rumours of a planned supergroup named Help, an acronym for "Hendrix Emerson Lake Palmer", which Lake afterward debunked.^[15]

Equally role of auditions for a drummer at a studio by Soho Square,^[16] Emerson'south manager, Tony Stratton-Smith, suggested Carl Palmer of Atomic Rooster and previously The Crazy Earth of Arthur Brownish.^[17] Palmer enjoyed the chemistry, though was initially reluctant as Atomic Rooster were starting to gain attention; it was just later on several weeks of further sessions that Palmer agreed to join.^[17] Triton was a group name that Emerson said "was buzzing around" for a piddling while,^[eighteen] and Triumvirate and Seahorse were also in contention,^[19] simply they settled upon Emerson, Lake & Palmer to remove the focus on Emerson every bit the well-nigh famous of the three, and to ensure that they were non chosen the "new Nice".^[20]

The group'south second gig was at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival

Later on rehearsals at Isle Studios in Notting Hill,^[eighteen] the band formed a live set featuring "The Barbarian", an organisation of the piano slice Allegro barbaro by Béla Bartók, "Rondo", an organisation of the jazz standard "Blue Rondo à la Turk" by Dave Brubeck that Emerson had recorded with the Nice, an arrangement of "Nut Rocker" as an encore,^[21] and a stone adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition by Small Mussorgsky that Emerson wished to practise after seeing it performed with an orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London when he was in the Nice.^[22] The group wished to raise their alive deed, and spent £ix,000 on a audio mixer and £4,000 on a Moog modular synthesizer imported from America that was adjusted for better performance on stage.^[14]

The trio's get-go live gig followed at Plymouth Guildhall on 23 Baronial 1970, supported past local band Globe.^{[23] [24] [25]} They travelled to the venue in a transit van previously owned by fellow progressive rock band Yep, and were paid around £400 for the gig.^{[26] [27]} A small venue exterior London was deliberately called in case the concert was a failure, just the concert was well received.^[28] Their second gig took place on 29 Baronial with a set at the Island of Wight Festival which was attended by an estimated 600,000 people and drew considerable attending from the public and music press. At the end of "Pictures at an Exhibition", the band fired two cannons that Emerson had tested in a field near Heathrow Airdrome.^[21]

The success of the grouping's debut, as well as Lake'south prior association with King Crimson, led to ELP's signing management and recording contracts with E.Thou. Records, who distributed their records through Island Records in the UK and Atlantic Records' Cotillion Records subsidiary in North America.^[17] Emerson believed that Atlantic'due south chief Ahmet Ertegun agreed to have the ring on "because we could sell out 20,000-seaters earlier we even had a tape out. That was enough for him to recollect that a lot of people would leave and buy the record when information technology did come out."^[thirteen]

1970–1971: Debut album, Tarkus, and Pictures at an Exhibition [edit]

Emerson performing in 1977

In the months surrounding their debut gigs, the band recorded their first album, Emerson Lake & Palmer, at Advision Studios. Lake took on the office of producer, which he had also done in Male monarch Crimson, with Eddy Offord as their engineer. The album included studio versions of "The Barbarian" and "Have a Pebble", "Knife-Edge", based on the start movement of Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček and the Allemande of French Suite No. 1 in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, Palmer's pulsate solo "Tank", the three-role "The Three Fates", and "Lucky Man", an audio-visual ballad that Lake wrote when he was twelve.^[29] The album was released in the UK in Nov 1970, and reached No. iv in the Great britain and No. eighteen in the US. "Lucky Human being" was released as a unmarried that peaked at No. 48 in the US.^[xxx]

From September 1970 to March 1971, the band completed their kickoff concert tour with shows across the Britain, Deutschland, Republic of austria, and Switzerland. Their performance on 9 December 1970 at the Lyceum Theatre in London was filmed and released in United kingdom theatres in 1972 with added psychedelic effects including characters from Marvel Comics.^[31]

During a intermission in their first tour in January 1971, Emerson, Lake & Palmer returned to Advision Studios with Offord to record their second anthology, Tarkus. Friction between Emerson and Lake during the early recording sessions almost caused the group to disband every bit Lake disliked the fabric that Emerson was writing. Following a meeting with the band and management, Lake agreed to write his own songs and keep recording.^[32] The album was recorded in six days.^[33] The album'south showtime side is occupied by the 20-minute title track, a seven-part song based on opposite development that was recorded in four days. Its cover art was designed by painter and graphic designer William Neal. Tarkus was released in June 1971 on Isle Records. It was a commercial success after it reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 9 in the United states of america. The band resumed touring with their kickoff Northward American tour, starting 24 April 1971 at Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania^[34] and continued until the end of May. Further dates across Europe followed until the stop of the year.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer released their third album, Pictures at an Exhibition, in the United kingdom in November 1971. They recorded their performance of it at Newcastle Metropolis Hall on 26 March 1971 and decided to release information technology with the concert's encore, "Nut Rocker".^[31] The group wished to release it as their second album, but Atlantic Records declined to as it is a classical-oriented piece and claimed information technology would non sell or receive any radio airplay, and offered to release it through Nonesuch Records which handled more budget, classical, and advanced albums.^[17] The band refused, and delayed its release on purpose until after Tarkus; Emerson said the delay was to also show to the press and public that they could write their own songs and were not but a "band that did classical music".^[35] Following Isle Records' decision to import 250,000 copies into the The states which sold within a brusk amount of time, helped by radio DJ Scott Muni playing the unabridged album uninterrupted on WNEW in New York Metropolis, Atlantic decided to release information technology through Cotillion as a budget album in Jan 1972.^[17] The anthology peaked at No. 3 in the UK and No. 10 in the US.^[36]

1971–1974: Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery, and touring [edit]

Trilogy, the band'south tertiary studio anthology, was recorded at Advision Studios with Offord between October 1971 and January 1972.^[37] Its cover art was designed past Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis.^[38] "Hoedown" is an adaptation of Rodeo by Aaron Copland. Released in July 1972, Trilogy reached No. 2 in the Uk and No. 5 in the Us. "From the Beginning", an acoustic ballad featuring an extended synthesizer solo, was released as a unmarried which reached No. 39 in the United states.^[39] Lake has picked Trilogy as his favourite studio anthology past the band.^[40] The album was supported with a N American bout in March and April 1972 which included a spot at the Mar y Sol Pop Festival in Manatí, Puerto Rico on 3 April.^[41] Following dates beyond Europe, including their beginning in Italy, the band performed at the Concert ten Festival at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania on 9 July 1972. This was followed by their first dates in Japan in July.^[41]

In early 1973, the ring formed their own tape characterization, Manticore Records, and purchased an abandoned movie theatre as their own rehearsal hall in Fulham, London. In June 1973, Emerson, Lake & Palmer began recording Brain Salad Surgery in London at Advision and Olympic Studios which lasted until September that yr. Offord was non nowadays for the recording sessions as he was working with Yes, leaving applied science and mixing duties to Chris Kimsey and Geoff Immature. Lake wrote the anthology's lyrics with Peter Sinfield and its sleeve was designed by H. R. Giger and includes the band'south new logo. Formed of five tracks, the album includes a rendition of "Jerusalem" which features the debut of the Moog Apollo, a prototype polyphonic synthesizer. "Toccata" is a cover of the quaternary movement of Piano Concerto No. ane past Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and contains synthesised percussion in the grade of an acoustic pulsate kit fitted with selection-ups that triggered electronic sounds. The 29-minute rail "Karn Evil 9" is the longest song recorded by the grouping. Brain Salad Surgery was released in November 1973 and reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 11 in the US.

From November 1973 to September 1974, the ring toured North America and Europe which included a headline spot at the countdown California Jam Festival on 6 Apr 1974 at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, to an attendance of 250,000 people. Their performance was broadcast across the United states of america.^[42] The band's live shows exhibited an unorthodox mix of virtuoso musicianship and over-the-top performances which received much criticism. Their theatrics included Emerson playing a piano as it spun, suspended, end-over-cease; Palmer playing on a rotating pulsate platform; and a Hammond organ thrown effectually the phase to create feedback. Emerson oftentimes used a knife, given to him by Lemmy Kilmister who had roadied for the Dainty,^[43] to force the keys on the organ to stay down. Emerson used a large Moog modular synthesizer on stage but it was unreliable as heat affected its audio.^[44] The ring carried almost 40 tons of equipment for the tour.^[45] ELP were i of the summit earth concert draws during 1973-74.^[46] Performances from the ring's 1973–74 tour were documented in the live album, Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Prove That Never Ends ~ Ladies and Gentlemen, released in August 1974 as a triple LP. The anthology peaked at No. v in the UK and No. 4 in the US.

1974–1978: Hiatus and Works [edit]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer took an extended break in 1974. They regrouped in 1976 to record Works Volume 1 at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland and EMI Studios in Paris, France. Information technology is a double album with one side of an LP containing songs by each fellow member and a fourth of group material. Much of the album was recorded with an orchestral accompaniment; Emerson's side consists of his 18-minute, three-motion "Piano Concerto No. ane". Lake contributes v songs he co-wrote with Sinfield, and Palmer'southward includes two covers of classical pieces past Sergei Prokofiev and Bach. One of the ii group tracks, "Fanfare for the Common Man", is a cover of the same-titled orchestral piece past Aaron Copland, who gave permission to accept the band release it. Works Book 1 was released in March 1977 and peaked at No. 9 in the UK and No. 12 in the US. A single of "Fanfare for the Mutual Human" was released and reached No. 2 in the UK, the band'due south highest charting UK single.^[47] In Nov 1977, Works Volume two was released equally a compilation of shorter tracks recorded from 1973 to 1976 during various album recording sessions. The album was not as commercially successful as the ring'south previous albums; it reached No. 20 in the UK and No. 37 in the United states. Three tracks from the album were released as singles: "Tiger in a Spotlight", "Maple Leafage Rag", and "Watching Over You".

Palmer performing on the Works tour, in 1978

The two Works albums were supported by North American tours which lasted from May 1977 to February 1978, spanning over 120 dates.^[48] Some early concerts in 1977 were performed with a mitt-picked orchestra and choir, just the idea was shelved after eighteen shows with the ring due to budget constraints.^[49] The last concert with the orchestra and choir took identify on 26 August 1977 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal that was attended by an estimated 78,000 people, the highest attended Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert as a solo human activity.^[50] It was released in 1979 as Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Concert and reached No. 73 in the United states of america. Emerson wished for a double anthology release, but Atlantic Records decided confronting it due to the band's pending dissolution at its fourth dimension of release. In 1993, the album was repackaged with additional tracks as Works Live, and put out on video in 1998.^[50] Co-ordinate to Lake on the Across the Beginning DVD documentary, the band lost effectually $3 one thousand thousand on the bout. Lake and Palmer blame Emerson for the loss as the utilise of an orchestra on bout was his idea.^{[ commendation needed ]}

1978–1979: Love Embankment and offset breakup [edit]

Later on their 1977–78 tour, the ring discussed their adjacent move. Emerson recalled that in guild for the grouping to continue, "we would accept to do a lot of cutting downward" and considered the possibility of producing music with just a piano, bass guitar, and drums.^[51] Every bit the group were contractually obliged to record one more studio anthology, the band relocated to Emerson'southward domicile near Nassau in the Bahama islands and recorded Dear Beach at the nearby Compass Betoken Studios in 1978.^[41] Lake did non carry out the production duties, leaving Emerson to complete the record on his own after his bandmates returned home when recording was complete.^[52] The album has been dismissed by the ring, who explained it was produced to fulfil a contractual obligation.^[53] Sinfield is credited on the majority of the tracks as a lyricist except "Canario", an instrumental based on Fantasía para un gentilhombre by Castilian composer Joaquín Rodrigo. The 2d side is taken up with "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman", a four-part 20-minute track that tells a coming of age story of a soldier during the Globe War Two-era.^[52] Its cover is a photograph of the group at a beach off an island from Salt Cay, Turks Islands, "decked out as blank-chested tardily-seventies disco stars".^[52] Despite Emerson expressing his disapproval on the album's championship and cover to Ertegun, neither was changed.^[52]

Love Beach was released in November 1978 and was poorly received by the music press. "All I Want Is Y'all" was released as a unmarried in the UK, but failed to chart. Information technology did sell enough to exist certified gold in the US for 500,000 copies sold, in January 1979.^[4] In early on 1979, Palmer attempted to organise a farewell summertime tour and take the group disband at its determination. Due to internal problems, such equally "what we should play and how we should play it", the tour never materialised.^[54] As the ring'due south demise became clear, Palmer formed a ring chosen PM, which released an album called 1PM.^[55]

[edit]

In 1985, Emerson and Lake formed Emerson, Lake & Powell with sometime Rainbow drummer Cozy Powell. Palmer declined to participate in a reunion as he was busy with commitments with Asia. Rumours also linked Pecker Bruford to their new line-up, just he was committed to Male monarch Crimson and Digging. The group'south but album, Emerson Lake & Powell, was released in June 1986 and charted at No. 35 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and No. 23 in the US. The unmarried "Touch on and Become" went to No. 60 in the US and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The trio toured the album in 1986, playing material past the Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

In 1988, Emerson and Palmer joined with Robert Drupe to form the ring 3. They released an album, To the Power of 3, in 1988.

1991–1998: Reformation, Black Moon, In the Hot Seat, and second breakup [edit]

Emerson, Lake and Palmer performing in 1992

Thank you to Phil Carson, in 1991, Emerson, Lake & Palmer reformed and issued a 1992 comeback anthology, Black Moon, on Victory Music. Lake's vocalization had by this point noticeably deepened from years of heavy cigarette smoking. The bands 1992–93 world tours were successful, culminating in a performance at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles in early 1993 that has been heavily bootlegged, just reportedly, Palmer suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome in one hand and Emerson had been treated for a repetitive stress disorder.^{[ citation needed ]} In 1994, the band released a follow-up album, In the Hot Seat.

Emerson and Palmer somewhen recovered enough to start touring again, beginning in 1996. Their bout schedules took them to Japan, Southward America, Europe, the United States and Canada, playing new versions of older piece of work. They played in significantly smaller venues compared to their heyday (sometimes fewer than 500 people, equally in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Their last show was in San Diego, California, in Baronial 1998. Conflicts over a new album led to another breakdown.

2010–2016: 40th anniversary concert and deaths of Emerson and Lake [edit]

In April 2010, Emerson and Lake embarked on a Northward American tour, presenting an acoustic repertoire of their work. On 14 May 2010, Shout! Manufactory released A Fourth dimension and a Place, a 4-CD drove of Emerson, Lake & Palmer live tracks.

On 25 July 2010, Emerson, Lake & Palmer played a one-off 40th anniversary concert, headlining the High Voltage Festival event in Victoria Park, London. The entire concert was subsequently released as the double-CD live album Loftier Voltage. On 22 February 2011, Shout! released Live at Nassau Coliseum '78, a 2-CD set alive recording of an Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert on nine February 1978 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

On 29 August 2011, Emerson, Lake & Palmer released on DVD and Blu-ray ... Welcome Back My Friends. 40th Anniversary Reunion Concert. High Voltage Festival – 25 July 2010, the film of the 40th anniversary concert in Victoria Park, London.^[56] A Blu-ray and SD DVD of the concert was produced by Concert One Ltd, together with a definitive documentary of the band'south 40-year history.

On 6 Dec 2011, Shout! Factory released Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival '72, a single-CD gear up live recording of an Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert on 2 April 1972 at the Mar Y Sol Festival, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.^[57]

ELP signed a worldwide licensing deal with Sony Music Amusement.^[58] In Northward America, the band moved to Razor & Necktie.^[59] In 2015, Emerson, Lake & Palmer changed their worldwide distributor to BMG Rights Management.^[60]

Emerson died on 11 March 2016 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.^[61] Lake died from cancer on 7 December 2016.^[62]

Influence and appraisal [edit]

A 2016 retrospective review in Rolling Stone listed "x Essential Songs past EL&P" and noted, "ELP became one of rock'due south offset supergroups upon forming in 1970…The issue was a stretch of albums…that turned prog from a blackness-lite-in-the-basement listening experience into a stadium-filling miracle. At their heart was Emerson, whose eternal quest for a bigger, grander sound (thanks to a depository financial institution of organs and synthesizers that grew to resemble a fortress onstage) helped make ELP one of the nearly accomplished and arresting bands rock e'er birthed."^[63] Koji Kondo, Nintendo's showtime video game composer, cited ELP as a major influence on his piece of work.^[64] Nobuo Uematsu, all-time known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series, cites ELP as 1 of his influences.^[65] The trio are described every bit "genuinely classically aware, and openly demonstrated their respect for classical music." They are said to have "formed a 18-carat fusion between stone and jazz" and were noted for their "virtuosity and their uninhibited aggression."^[66]

Despite their success and influence, ELP received criticism from some music critics, one citing a pop joke from the 1970s: "How do y'all spell pretentious? Due east-L-P."^[67] Robert Christgau said of the ring in Stone Albums of the Seventies (1981), "these guys are as stupid as their well-nigh pretentious fans", also calling them the "world's near overweening 'progressive' group".^[68] John Kelman of All About Jazz noted that an "overbearing sense of self-importance turned ELP from i of the 1970s' most exciting new groups into the definition of masturbatory backlog and self-aggrandizement in merely a few short years."^[69] Kelman also stated that "in their fall from grace, [ELP] represented everything wrong with progressive rock."^[lxx] Paul Stump, in his History of Progressive Rock, likewise attributed ELP'due south infamy to their corrupt activities during progressive rock's fall from favor: "What prompted ELP to do what they did to their listeners, their critics and ultimately themselves in 1977 tin can only be guessed at. What is sure is that information technology consigned them to eternal rock notoriety. Fifty-fifty discounting Punk, had not the musical climate changed enough to convince them that epics were out of mode, both on record and in concert?"^[71] DJ John Skin went so far as to describe the ring as "a tragic waste of talent and electricity".^[72] In an appraisement of the band's legacy, PopMatters journalist Sean Irish potato said ELP "wore immoderation like a badge of courage", regardless of whether they were loved or loathed:

Here are three words that strike fear in the hearts of all those allergic to prog rock: Emerson. Lake. Palmer. Popular plenty to have several songs yet in the regular FM rotation, obscure enough to exist forever relegated as one of "those" bands from a sure time and identify (the '70s), ambitious enough to effort things few if any other bands did, for better or worse, pretentious enough to earn the full-throated derision of holier-than-thou tastemakers. And album art awful enough to ensure they will never be forgotten, for better or worse.^[73]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums

• Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)
• Tarkus (1971)
• Pictures at an Exhibition (1971, live)
• Trilogy (1972)
• Encephalon Salad Surgery (1973)
• Works Volume ane (1977)
• Works Book 2 (1977)
• Beloved Beach (1978)
• Black Moon (1992)
• In the Hot Seat (1994)

Band members [edit]

• Keith Emerson – keyboards, synthesizers
• Greg Lake – bass guitar, audio-visual and electrical guitar, harmonica, vocals
• Carl Palmer – drums, percussion

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Farther reading [edit]

• Emerson, Keith; Lake, Greg; Palmer, Carl (2021), Emerson, Lake & Palmer, London: Rocket88, ISBN978-1910978641
• Emerson, Keith; Lake, Greg; Palmer, Carl (2021), Emerson Lake & Palmer Pictures At An Exhibition: in-depth, Bedford: Wymer Publishing, ISBN978-1912782673
• Freeman, Garry (2012). Do You Wanna Play Some Magic?: Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Concert 1970–1979 – A Live History. Soundcheck Books. ISBN978-0956642080.
• Van der Kiste, John (2012). The Plymouth Book of Days. The History Printing. ISBN9780752485973.
• Macan, Edward (2006). Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Open Court Publishing Company. ISBN0-8126-9596-8.
• Forrester, George; Hanson, Martyn; Askew, Frank (2001). Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Show That Never Ends, A Musical Biography. Helter Skelter Publishing. ISBN1-900924-17-X.
• Emerson, Keith; Lake, Greg; Palmer, Carl (1996), Greatest hits, New York: Amsco, ISBN978-0825615368 (Musical scores for vocals, piano and guitar)

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer at AllMusic
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer discography at Discogs

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson,_Lake_&_Palmer

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