EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Celebrate 45th Anniversary Of Self-Titled Debut On InTheStudio; Audio
December 30, 2015, 8 years ago
North American syndicated rock radio show and website, InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands, visits with prog rock pioneers Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer on the 45th anniversary of their self-titled debut, Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
Says host Redbeard: “ELP were a true supergroup in progressive rock, elevating the musical genre by taking it out of the science lab and onto FM rock radio, where ultimately millions of listeners would respond in favour. Each member of ELP had a hand in defining the prog rock sound, albeit individually in separate bands, Keith Emerson as a keyboardist, innovator with The Nice; Greg Lake writing and singing on the 1969 King Crimson groundbreaker In The Court of the Crimson King; and Carl Palmer exhibiting power and space-filling percussion in the trio Atomic Rooster.”
Greg Lake shares the story behind the song “Lucky Man” and how it ended up making the cut on ELP’s debut album: “I wrote “Lucky Man” when I was 12 years old... And I never had any use for it... When it came to the album and we were due to finish the album there and then, it was just a case of ‘Does anybody got any idea?‘ And there was a silence, and I said, Well, I got this. ‘So alright then, give it a go’.”
Listen to the program now at this location.
