“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.” That lyric, sung with the bravado of a carnival barker and backed by keyboard-drenched pageantry, sat at the heart of “Brain Salad Surgery,” the ...

Preposterous, Excessive & Egotistical… Musical, Challenging & Dynamic… Emerson, Lake & Palmer. No other band in the history of prog rock has engendered such extreme reactions as ELP. In fact, they’ve ...

If you were a teenager shopping for albums in late 1971, all you needed to know about Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”—a rock interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky’s 1874 work of the ...

Suffice it to say that getting Emerson, Lake & Palmer back on the road took some doing for Carl Palmer. Both of the percussion virtuoso’s bandmates from the superstar prog rock band passed away in ...

Volume 3 represents the third chapter of celebrated drummer Carl Palmer's reinventions of past group works, including Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP). His technical gifts are legendary, and with this ...

While it should come as no surprise that musical heroes from across all genres are beginning to die off, some of the highest profile losses are, in particular, in the rock/pop world, where many of its ...

On April 13, 1972, English prog rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer performed in Franklin & Marshall College’s Mayser Auditorium, and for nearly 50 years, there was no audio proof. That is, until July of ...