The Return of the Manticore | ||||
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Released | 16 November 1993 | |||
Recorded | July 1970 – September 1993 | |||
Genre | Rock, progressive rock | |||
Length | 293:25 | |||
Label | Victory Music (1993 release) Rhino Records (reissue) | |||
Producer | Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer, Eddy Offord | |||
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Entertainment Weekly | C− [2] |
The Return of the Manticore is a 4-disc retrospective on the career of the band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was released in 1993, and features several new recordings of previously released songs, most notably a studio recording of "Pictures at an Exhibition," presented in Dolby Surround Sound. Also, a live recording of Dave Brubeck's "Rondo" features on disc 2; the track, although performed by ELP in concert from the band's inception (as it had been by Keith Emerson's previous band The Nice), was previously unreleased on any live or studio album by ELP. This rendition was recorded at the Lyceum Theatre on December 9, 1970. The version of "Pirates" is a new, exclusive remix.
The box set is a fairly comprehensive cross-section of the band's history, offering tracks from all of ELP's studio and live albums (at the time of release), as well as new ELP renditions of hits previously recorded by bands they were members of prior to forming ELP.
The set's original release was part of a wave of remastered releases under the band's new label Victory Music. After that label became defunct, the set was re-released on Rhino Records.
No. | Title | Original release | Length |
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1. | "Touch and Go" (Emerson, Greg Lake) | 1993 recording | 3:01 |
2. | "Hang on to a Dream" (Tim Hardin) | 1993 recording | 4:27 |
3. | "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) | 1993 recording | 3:07 |
4. | "Fire" (Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Peter Ker, Mike Finesilver) | 1993 recording | 3:24 |
5. | "Pictures at an Exhibition
| 1993 recording | 15:33 |
6. | "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Lake, Sinfield) | 1993 recording | 3:26 |
7. | "Introductory Fanfare/Peter Gunn" (Emerson, Palmer, Henry Mancini) | Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert | 4:27 |
8. | "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield) | Works Volume 2 | 4:32 |
9. | "Toccata" (Alberto Ginastera, arr. by Emerson, Palmer) | Brain Salad Surgery | 7:20 |
10. | "Trilogy" (Emerson, Lake) | Trilogy | 8:53 |
11. | "Tank" (Emerson, Palmer) | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 6:47 |
12. | "Lucky Man" (Lake) | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 4:37 |
No. | Title | Original release | Length |
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1. | "Tarkus
| Tarkus | 20:35 |
2. | "From the Beginning" (Lake) | Trilogy | 4:14 |
3. | "Take a Pebble (Live version)
| Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen | 22:48 |
4. | "Knife-Edge" (music: Leoš Janáček arr. Emerson; lyrics: Lake, Richard Fraser) | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 5:05 |
5. | "Paper Blood" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Black Moon | 4:26 |
6. | "Hoedown" (Aaron Copland, arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Trilogy | 3:43 |
7. | "Rondo (Live version)" (Dave Brubeck, arr. by Emerson) | Previously unreleased | 14:28 |
No. | Title | Original release | Length |
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1. | "The Barbarian" (Béla Bartók, arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 4:28 |
2. | "Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) | Brain Salad Surgery | 2:52 |
3. | "The Endless Enigma
| Trilogy | 10:37 |
4. | "C'est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) | Works Volume 1 | 4:16 |
5. | "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Sergei Prokofiev, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Works Volume 1 | 3:21 |
6. | "Bo Diddley" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Previously unreleased | 5:03 |
7. | "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson, Lake) | Tarkus | 3:55 |
8. | "A Time and a Place" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Tarkus | 2:57 |
9. | "Living Sin" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Trilogy | 3:12 |
10. | "Karn Evil 9
| Brain Salad Surgery | 29:37 |
11. | "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade "Lux" Lewis, arr. by Emerson) | Works Volume 2 | 3:11 |
No. | Title | Original release | Length |
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1. | "Jerusalem" (Hubert Parry, William Blake, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Brain Salad Surgery | 2:44 |
2. | "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Works Volume 1 | 9:40 |
3. | "Black Moon" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) | Black Moon | 6:58 |
4. | "Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) | Works Volume 2 | 3:54 |
5. | "Piano Concerto No. 1 Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco" (Emerson) | Works Volume 1 | 6:48 |
6. | "For You" (Lake, Sinfield) | Love Beach | 4:27 |
7. | "Prelude and Fugue" (Friedrich Gulda) | Previously unreleased | 3:15 |
8. | "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman
| Love Beach | 20:12 |
9. | "Pirates" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) | Works Volume 1 (New remix) | 13:18 |
10. | "Affairs of the Heart" (Lake, Geoff Downes) | Black Moon | 3:46 |
Disc One
Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards) of the Nice, Greg Lake of King Crimson, and Carl Palmer of Atomic Rooster. With nine RIAA-certified gold record albums in the US, and an estimated 48 million records sold worldwide, they are one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock groups of 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, composer 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.
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, the piano suite 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 on 14 June 1971 on Island Records. Following their debut tour across Europe during the second half of 1970, the group paused touring commitments in January 1971 to record a new album at Advision Studios in London. Greg Lake produced the album with Eddy Offord as engineer.
Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 7 December 1973 by their new 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 25 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, while the fourth side features songs performed 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 bassist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP).
Trilogy is the third studio album by English progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in June 1972, by Island Records. The group had spent most of 1971 touring, and paused in September so they could record a new album at Advision Studios with Eddy Offord resuming his role as engineer. It would be his last with the group, as he later elected to work full-time with Yes. The album features "Hoedown", an arrangement of Aaron Copland's ballet composition which became a live favourite.
Manticore Records is a record label launched by the Manticore production company in 1973. These companies were owned by the members of the progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer and their manager, Stewart Young. The manticore was first featured in the artwork for the second ELP album Tarkus, as one of the eponymous creature's adversaries. Manticore was initially the name given to ELP's music publishers, credits first appearing in the credits on Trilogy, released on Island in 1972.
Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends – Ladies and Gentlemen is the second live album by the English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released as a triple album in August 1974 on Manticore Records. It was recorded in February 1974 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, during the group's 1973–74 world tour in support of their fourth studio album, Brain Salad Surgery (1973).
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.
The group 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 & Powell is the only studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Powell, released on 26 May 1986 by Polydor Records.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), recorded at their 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".
Emerson, Lake & Powell, sometimes abbreviated as ELP, were an English progressive rock band, considered by many as a variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, that released one official studio album in 1986. The album's debut single was "Touch and Go," which peaked at number 60 on the Billboard charts on 19 July 1986.
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.
High Voltage is a double live album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 2010.
"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.
"Tiger in a Spotlight" is a song by the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was recorded in 1973, but not released until 1977, when it was released on the album Works Volume 2. "Tiger in a Spotlight" was also released as a single, and became a staple in Emerson, Lake & Palmer later concerts.