- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing; 1 edition (July 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 190092417X
- ISBN-13: 978-1900924177
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 417 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,091,072 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer answered blues funkiness with power-chord bombast. Rife with soaring solos and virtuoso turns, ELP's live performances converted four-minute songs into extravaganzas that threatened never to conclude and helped define the then viable term art rock. Forrester and friends profile the trio in detail and, in true rock journalistic manner, arguably too sympathetically. This book will not make any best rock books lists for '01, yet it is solid enough to serve any pop music book collection well. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
This is the first every biography of Progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer-one of the most successful acts of the 70s who, in terms of sound artistic vision and concept, operated on a scale for in excess of all rivals. Featuring The Nice's keyboard virtuoso Keith Emerson, King Crimson's Greg Lake on lead vocals and ball and Stomic Rooster's drummer Carl Palmer, ELP enjoyed a huge profile from the start. Their 1970 debut album Emerson, Lake and Palmer mixed new compositions with reinterpresations fo classical themes such as Bartok and Janacek, while Emerson's "Lucky Man" Moog solo represented one of the first recorded instances of the synthesiser in rock. After bestselling albums Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibition and Trilogy brought the synthesiser to a wider audience, the band's recorded sound reached its apogee with 1973's high-concept album Brain Salad Surgery , which boasted artwork by Swiss Surrealist H.R. Giger.
Live, the band was a phenomenon, tearing up European classical music and turing Copland inside out through a giant quadrophonic PA, in front of packed audiences, whiile a shirtless Emerson hammered knives into his keyboard.
The rise of punk changed everything, and ELP split in the late 70s. However, by the 90s they were back with the classic Black Moon and a world tour that culminated in three triumphant shows at London's Royal Albert Hall.
George Foster, Martyn Hanson, and Frank Askew are acknowledged experts on ELP and after five years of research, they have produced a gripping and fascinating document of one of the great rock bands of the 70s. George Forrester also provides a erudite study of the band's complex and challenging music.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
At last, the ELP biography,
By Renato Filho (Campinas-Brazil) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: The Show That Never Ends (Paperback)
It was about time somebody decided to write the story of this trio of musicians who, for years, were the alliance of technic and fury in Progressive Rock. All that you wanna to know about them, you'll find here (tours, pool awards,individual biography, etc...). It was a work that certainly took decades to be conceived and the result is remarkable. A must for all ELP fans and those who wants to know how advanced and far they were in their own time. Hooray ELP !!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not the best, but it's all ELP fans have to date,
By Michael Topper (Pacific Palisades, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: The Show That Never Ends (Paperback)
As the only extant full-length bio of ELP, "Welcome Back My Friends" serves the purpose of telling their story in as straightforward a manner as possible, going year-by-year and covering all of the high and low points with a fair amount of detail and research. It could be much more detailed, and as mentioned it is somewhat of a whitewash, since the authors are so clearly in love with the band that even low points like "Love Beach" and "In The Hot Seat" are given positive spins.(Ironically, one of ELP's best projects, the "Pictures At An Exhibition" film from 1971, is one of the few things that is harshly criticized here). As a basic resource and information manual, the book does its job by providing in-depth song analyses, a very complete discography and complete concert date list. The song analyses are interesting, although some tracks are reviewed in much greater detail than others. The information on the bandmembers' personal lives if perhaps the weakest, although there is as much as could be gleaned from interviews. Until Emerson's elusive autobiography is released, this is the best way for ELP fans, both old and new, to read up on as much info as is currently available on the group. However, the best rock bios tend to put the artist in question against an overview of the era they influenced and were influenced by, and this is largely ignored outside of passing references to other prog acts, making it seem unusually insular.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Short on information, insight,
By A Customer
This review is from: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: The Show That Never Ends (Paperback)
A very weak effort on a band deserving of a real bio. Most of the research appears to have been cribbed from publications like Circus, Contemporary Keybord and the like. The members are not interviewed, nor are the folks who could give real insight into the band and it's era: Stewart Young, Ahmut Ertegun, Godfrey Salmon and on and on. In the end it's a fannish puff piece that adds nothing to the story of rock's most (unjustly) reviled band.
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