Whenever anyone discusses rock keyboard players, one of the first names mentioned is always Keith “Emo” Emerson. In 1967, he was a founding member of The Nice, but he’s best known as one-third of the ...

“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 ...

I’ve never been a big fan of prog rock, with its penchant for self-indulgent instrumental pyrotechnics, sci fi and fantasy themes and theatrical bombast. But anybody who saw the footage of Emerson ...

Carl Palmer is thinking a lot about legacy these days. One of prog rock’s most cherished drummers, Palmer is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the progressive stalwarts who ...

Prog-rock kingpins Emerson, Lake & Palmer wrote their share of songs about the blessing and curse of technology. And now technology is bringing the band back to life. Drummer Carl Palmer has taken the ...

They were one of the biggest pioneer progressive rock groups of the 1970s, boldly mixing rock with classical music and jazz. Reviewers praised their albums as mandatory listening for fans of ’70s ...

The prog rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer will get their first official book, titled Emerson, Lake & Palmer, out later this year. The book was created by Carl Palmer and the families of Keith ...

Everyone, including Carl Palmer, thought they’d seen and heard the last of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. In 2010, the trio, who took prog to way-over-the top heights musically and theatrically in the ...