When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It’s a viewpoint echoed by his erstwhile bandmates. Keyboard player Keith Emerson sees it as a ...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Works Volume 1 represents the boldest move the band ever made and the beginning of their undoing. By the time ELP came off the tour for its previous album, 1973’s Brain Salad ...

The late ’70s were a transitional period for rock bands in general, and progressive rock in particular was going out of fashion. In 1978, some of the most accomplished prog bands were moving in a ...

Greg Lake, a founding member of the pioneering English progressive-rock bands King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, died Wednesday. He was 69. His death came after “a long and stubborn battle with ...

“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 ...