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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Huge in the 1970s, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were trailblazers of the pre-punk prog-rock period built around a crescendo of keyboards and huge, ambitious neo-classical, thematic music. They had their roots in two earlier bands, The Nice (featuring Keith Emerson on keyboards) and King Crimson (with Greg Lake on bass) who shared the bill at several events and started jamming together. It felt so natural that they decided to throw in their lot together, recruiting Carl Palmer of Atomic Rooster to play drums. At one point there was talk of Jimi Hendrix joining (which would have ma...