Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Keith Emerson passed away yesterday

Emerson, Lake & Palmer  were one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock bands in the 1970s. Their jazzy rock style was dominated by Keith Emerson’s flamboyant use of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g1P_J40JA

I’ll never forget the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970. The whole island got lost in trance. Listen to the famous Moog synthesizer solo of Keith Emerson at the end of Lucky Man. Still outstanding after 46 years.

Not enough? ELP’s adaptation of classical music is wonderfully expressed in “The Barbarian”, an arrangement of the 1911 piano suite Allegro barbaro by Béla Bartok.

The cover of “Tarkus” had been a fetish for me. I copied the picture on the wall of my bedroom – and my parents got their first grey hair 😆

Wikipedia has two good articles about Emerson, Lake & Palmer and the Moog synthesizer.  This Moog synthesizer had really been a big piece of electronics and still fully analog.

Keith Emerson with his Moog synthesizer

1970	2010

Those were the days my friends …

Keith Emerson (1944 – 2016)

We regret to announce that Keith Emerson died last night at his home in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, aged 71. We ask that the family’s privacy and grief be respected.

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