Why King Crimson’s Biggest Hit LP Was ‘So Fully Formed, But Also So Unusual’
Released 55 years ago, King Crimson’s ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ offered a dark burst of seminal progressive rock that presupposed a new rock trend.
Released 55 years ago, King Crimson’s ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ offered a dark burst of seminal progressive rock that presupposed a new rock trend.
This seeps into any prog lover’s soul as Emerson Lake and Powell embrace the classics, folk, rock and perhaps (if truth be told) a bit of pomposity.
Preston Frazier’s look back at the Best of 2020 in box sets, live projects and reissues includes Trevor Rabin, Prince, Ian Dury, Greg Lake and others.
‘A Tribute to Keith Emerson and Greg Lake’ once again opens doors of nice colors, better words, weird and interesting stuff, and quasi-intellectual ideas.
A lot of thoughts flooded my head when I started listening to the new Billy Sherwood-helmed ‘Tribute to Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.’
Greg Lake was recording Emerson Lake and Palmer’s “Lucky Man” alone. Then Keith Emerson returned from the pub – and Lake had an idea.
Released on Oct. 10, 1969, King Crimson’s ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ was like nothing that had come before – and little since.
Emerson Lake and Palmer put out nine studio efforts, but there’s one Greg Lake keeps coming back to – the one that arrived just as ELP “grew up.”
Released in June of 1986, Emerson Lake and Powell represented a brawny, 1980s-era update of the old ELP sound — courtesy in part of a different drummer whose name also happened to begin with P. Seems Carl Palmer, co-founder with Greg Lake and Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer,Read More
Here is a review of the 3-CD remastered version of Emerson Lake and Palmer’s classic 1972 release, ‘Trilogy.’ Jakko Jakszyk’s remix does the music justice.