ELP's ambitious light shows and on-stage theatrics were the epitome of '70s rock excess, and several punk acts cited ELP as one of the bands they were reacting against. But the band sold more than ...

Massive musical ability crossed with pomposity and excess made it difficult for the supergroup to meet expectations – but ...

Keith's keyboards often took center stage in ELP's music. But Greg, your guitar—both your electric on, say, "Karn Evil 9," and your acoustic work was also a key component. And the guitar often ...

ELP itself had been dormant since 1998 ... What would Keith and Greg have made about being back “on stage” again in this fashion? Palmer: I had the complete sort of backing of the Emersons ...

The friends boggled at the two 60-foot proscenium arches framing the stage, holding 100 spotlights, assembled before the show by ELP’s crew as part of a load-in that took five hours.

"We'd play this multi-layered stuff, complex time-changes – and a lot of stage theatrics ... said as many of 650 studio hours – perfecting ELP's then-new album, Brain Salad Surgery.

ELP played a single concert a couple of summers ... “21st Century Schizoid Man,” the spotlight comes on and there’s no one on the stage. Then the track carries, but the second time the ...