| The Essential Emerson, Lake & Palmer | ||||
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| Released | 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 1970-78, 1992-97 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Label | Shout! Factory Manticore | |||
| Producer | Greg Lake Mark Mancina | |||
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology | ||||
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The Essential Emerson, Lake & Palmer is a greatest hits album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 2007.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Barbarian" | Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer | Emerson, Lake & Palmer , 1970 | 4:28 |
| 2. | "Take a Pebble" | Lake | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 12:29 |
| 3. | "Knife-Edge" (Adapted from Leoš Janáček's Sinfonia) | Leoš Janáček, Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Richard Fraser | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 5:03 |
| 4. | "Tank" | Emerson, Palmer | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 6:47 |
| 5. | "Lucky Man" | Lake | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 4:36 |
| 6. | "Tarkus"
| Emerson, Lake | Tarkus , 1971 | 20:39 |
| 7. | "Bitches Crystal" | Emerson, Lake | Tarkus | 3:55 |
| 8. | "Nut Rocker" (Live) | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Kim Fowley, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer | Pictures at an Exhibition , 1971 | 3:56 |
| 9. | "From the Beginning" | Lake | Trilogy , 1972 | 4:13 |
| 10. | "Hoedown" | Aaron Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer | Trilogy | 3:43 |
| 11. | "Trilogy" | Emerson, Lake | Trilogy | 8:54 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "The Endless Enigma, Part One" | Emerson, Lake | Trilogy | 6:41 |
| 2. | "Fugue" | Emerson | Trilogy | 1:56 |
| 3. | "The Endless Enigma, Part Two" | Emerson, Lake | Trilogy | 2:00 |
| 4. | "Jerusalem" | William Blake, Hubert Parry, adapted by Emerson, Lake, Palmer | Brain Salad Surgery , 1973 | 2:44 |
| 5. | "Toccata" (Adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto) | Alberto Ginastera, arr. by Emerson | Brain Salad Surgery | 7:21 |
| 6. | "Still...You Turn Me On" | Lake | Brain Salad Surgery | 2:51 |
| 7. | "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 1" | Emerson, Lake | Brain Salad Surgery | 8:35 |
| 8. | "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 2" | Emerson, Lake | Brain Salad Surgery | 4:49 |
| 9. | "Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff" (Live medley) | Emerson, Lake | Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ~ Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer , 1974 | 5:02 |
| 10. | "I Believe in Father Christmas" | Lake, Peter Sinfield | Non-album single, 1975; later released on Works Volume 2 , 1977 | 3:32 |
| 11. | "C'est la Vie" | Lake, Sinfield | Works Volume 1 , 1977 | 4:17 |
| 12. | "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Edited version) | Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer | Works Volume 1 | 5:40 |
| 13. | "Honky Tonk Train Blues" | Meade "Lux" Lewis, arr. by Emerson | Non-album single, 1976; later released on Works Volume 2 | 3:12 |
| 14. | "Canario" | Joaquín Rodrigo | Love Beach , 1978 | 3:59 |
| 15. | "Peter Gunn" (Live version) | Henry Mancini, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer | Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Concert , 1979 | 3:38 |
| 16. | "Black Moon" | Emerson, Lake, Palmer | Black Moon , 1992 | 6:58 |
| 17. | "Paper Blood" | Emerson, Lake, Palmer | Black Moon | 4:27 |
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in April 1970. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake and Carl Palmer. With nine RIAA-certified gold record albums in the US, and an estimated 48 million records sold worldwide, they were one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock bands in the 1970s, with a musical sound including adaptations of classical music with jazz and symphonic rock elements, dominated by Emerson's flamboyant use of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and piano.
Keith Noel Emerson was an English keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. After leaving the Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era. Emerson wrote and arranged much of ELP's music on albums such as Tarkus (1971) and Brain Salad Surgery (1973), combining his own original compositions with classical or traditional pieces adapted into a rock format.
The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1994. This supersedes a 1980 compilation with a shorter, different track list and Japanese ukiyo-e cover.
Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It features the group's rock adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971.
Tarkus is the second studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in June 1971 on Island Records. Following their 1970 European tour, the group returned to Advision Studios in London, in January 1971, to prepare material for a follow-up. Side one has the seven-part "Tarkus", with a collection of shorter tracks on side two.
Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 19 November 1973 by their record label, Manticore Records, and distributed by Atlantic Records.
Works Volume 1 is the fifth studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released as a double album on 17 March 1977 on Atlantic Records. Following their world tour supporting Brain Salad Surgery (1973), the group took an extended break before they reconvened in 1976 to record a new album. They were now tax exiles and recorded new material in London and overseas in Montreux, Switzerland and Paris, France. Works Volume 1 features a side dedicated for each member to write and arrange their own tracks that were performed by the band, while the fourth side features songs written collectively. Keith Emerson recorded his Piano Concerto No. 1, Greg Lake wrote several songs with lyricist Peter Sinfield, and Carl Palmer recorded tracks of varied musical styles.
Gregory Stuart Lake was an English singer, songwriter, bassist, guitarist and record producer. He gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP).
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer and percussionist best known as a founding member of the rock supergroups Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia. He has toured with his own bands since 2001, including Palmer, the Carl Palmer Band, and currently, Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy. He previously was a touring drummer for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and a founding member of Atomic Rooster.
Trilogy is the third studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in July 1972, by Island Records. The group had spent most of 1971 touring, which paused in September so they could record a new album at Advision Studios with Eddy Offord resuming his role as engineer. The album features "Hoedown", an arrangement of Aaron Copland's ballet composition which became a live favourite.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer is the debut studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was released in the United Kingdom by Island Records in November 1970, and in the United States by Cotillion Records in January 1971. After the group formed in the spring of 1970, they entered rehearsals and prepared material for an album which became a mix of original songs and rock arrangements of classical music. The album was recorded at Advision Studios in July 1970, when the band had yet to perform live. Lead vocalist and bassist/guitarist Greg Lake produced it.
3 were a short-lived progressive rock band formed by former Emerson, Lake & Palmer members Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer and American multi-instrumentalist Robert Berry in 1988.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), recorded at 26 August 1977 show at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada which is featured on the album cover. It was released by Atlantic Records in November 1979, following ELP's breakup. It was later re-released and repackaged as Works Live in 1993. Some of the tracks were not from the Montreal concert, but from other concerts during their 1977–1978 tour, such as "Peter Gunn" and "Tiger in a Spotlight".
"From the Beginning" is a song written by Greg Lake and performed by the progressive rock trio Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was released on their 1972 album Trilogy. It hit #39 in the United States and was their highest charting single there.
"Karn Evil 9" is an extended work by progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer, appearing on the album Brain Salad Surgery. A futuristic fusion of rock and classical themes, it was written by band members Keith Emerson and Greg Lake with former King Crimson lyricist Peter Sinfield. It is the fifth and final track on Brain Salad Surgery and, with a running length of 29 minutes and 37 seconds, is Emerson, Lake & Palmer's longest studio recording. The initial release of the album on vinyl split "Karn Evil 9" between the two sides due to its length, with a fade out/fade in between First Impression Parts 1 and 2. All subsequent releases on compact disc and digital download have "Karn Evil 9" as a single track, eliminating the fade.
From the Beginning is a box set which presents aural and visual documentation celebrating Emerson, Lake & Palmer's career; consisting of five discs that include a number of single b-sides, significant live recordings, alternative studio mixes and material taken from band rehearsals, plus a bonus DVD featuring 'The Manticore Years' documentary, presented in a deluxe book-style sleeve complete with a 60-page picture booklet containing extensive sleeve notes by the band discussing the ELP years. It also contains rare and previously unseen photographs and images.
"Fanfare for the Common Man" is an instrumental piece of music adapted and played by the English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, from the group's 1977 Works Volume I album. Adapted by Keith Emerson from Aaron Copland's 1942 piece of the same name, it is one of their most popular and enduring pieces.
"The Barbarian" is the opening track on the eponymous debut album of British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1970.
"Still...You Turn Me On" is a song by the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was released on their 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery. It is the only song on the album that lead singer and guitarist Greg Lake wrote entirely by himself.
