Keith Emerson is dead: The Virtuoso – Tagesspiegel

When the Swingin not ‘Sixties ended, handed in rock’ n ‘roll out of sheer enthusiasm. What was needed was virtuosity. The music had to be progressively that guitar and drum solos were longer and longer, it began the era of so-called supergroups. Good musicians who had played in successful bands, would – so the record labels hoping – in combination with other stars are even better: just super. One of the most famous formations of this kind was Emerson, Lake & amp; Palmer (ELP) to the 1970, the former The-Nice keyboardist Keith Emerson, King Crimson bassist Greg Lake and drummer Carl Palmer came together from Atomic Rooster. Actually even Jimi Hendrix should be doing, which, however, shortly before the founding drug died from an overdose. In the media already circulated a working title for the Super-Super Group. HELP

keys God. Even if he sits here at the piano, was Keith Emerson of the British “Guardian” as “the Hendrix Hammond” gefeie … Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst / dpa

“We were panned from the outset,” Emerson complained later. Even the untitled debut album sported almost with the artistry of the trio. It contained adaptations of Bartók, Janácek and Bach and lost in piano and organ grinding before “Man Lucky” led to the borne by bewitching vocal harmonies folk rock ballad, one of the biggest hits of the band. As ELP at Isle of Wight Festival Mussorgsky’s piano cycle interpreted “Pictures at an Exhibition” with Moog synthesizer, Hammond organ, bass and drums while inserting also original gunshots, scolded the BBC DJ John Peel: “What a waste of talent and power. “

with the recording of the performance generations of high school students should be beaten in music lessons. “We had the guns tested in a meadow near Heathrow Airport”, Emerson 2002 told in an interview. “Today we would for arrested as terrorists.” Emerson, Lake & amp; Palmer, published eight albums and 1998 parted finally, are among the most commercially successful of the progressive rock formations. But their bloodless, competing with the championship classical musician recordings supplied the punk movement, a perfect target. Keith Emerson, hailed as “the Hendrix Hammond” from the “Guardian”, was found in the night to Friday dead at his home in Los Angeles. The 71-year-old is said to have shot himself.

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