In 1970, after building up a sizeable following in the UK and northern Europe, Atomic Rooster started work on songs for their second ... for the music he made with ELP is patently on another ...

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

At his concert at the Majestic Ventura Theater on Thursday night, Greg Lake told how the song “Lucky Man” came to be recorded by the then-new prog rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

“I was scared shitless,” the late Keith Emerson told Mojo in 2001, remembering the start of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s 1977 tour of America — at the time, the most extravagant rock tour ever ...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer are being celebrated by the only living member, Carl Palmer, on tour with his Welcome Back: The Return of Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute at The Palladium at The Allied ...

It wasn’t simply Greg Lake’s booming voice that enshrined him among the greatest rock singers of all time. It was his authority, his ability to play a supporting role in the bands he was a ...

After ELP broke up in 1979 ... is the best-known version of the song in the U.S. It reached No. 11 on the Hot 100 in February 1990. Richard would release his version in March 1993, and it would ...

with the sterling audio tracks of their performances resulting in a combination of film and onstage performance of my band that brings back the magic of ELP." The Best ‘Epic’ Song by 10 ...

from the pioneering sounds of King Crimson through Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s period of world domination and on to a solo career mastheaded by that Christmas song. Psychedelic keyboard-laden wig ...

It eventually grew into an enormous and unwieldy beast that could simultaneously handle drones, ostinatos, and whatever else Keith needed to produce ELP’s music in the studio and reproduce it onstage.

Something about 23-minute songs that go on and on and on about celestial gods never quite caught on with Top 40 fans. But somehow Emerson, Lake & Palmer managed to place a few songs on the ...