Artist: Keith Emerson
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Christmas Album
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Throughout his calling with the Nice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and as a solo artist, Keith Emerson has proved himself mayhap the superlative, most technically complete keyboardist in sway history. For all his repute as an innovator and master of classically influenced rock, Emerson (born November 1, 1944, in the English township of Todmorden) began his life history playing R&B; the Nice got their first crowing break off patronage soul vocaliser P.P. Arnold in 1967. Independently of Arnold, the Nice carven out a niche in the entrant prog stone drive, with Emerson's classical flourishes and flamboyant showmanship (flinging knives at his keyboard, etc.) ahead the way. After the Nice's dissolution, Emerson fleshed out his musical ideas to their fullest with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, which debuted in 1970 and had a series of highly successful albums end-to-end the tenner. Emerson made his solo debut in 1976 with the single "Honkie Tonk Train Blues," which polish off the U.K. Top 30, only did non pursue a solo life history in businesslike until after ELP's 1980 dissolution. Emerson first scored the films The Inferno (1980) and Nighthawks (1981), only did non return until 1985, when he released Honkey. 1986 base Emerson active in a revamped ELP -- this meter with drummer Cozy Powell -- only still determination time to track record the solo LP Murderock. In 1987, Emerson released Harmageddon/China Free Fall, and the following year, he undertook a contrive with Carl Palmer and songwriter Robert Berry. Emerson, Lake & Palmer reunited in 1992 to criminal record unexampled material and tour, just when this venture proven less successful than hoped, Emerson announced his retirement from the music concern in 1994. That retirement was transient, though, as Emerson went on to release the occasional accumulation of new material or appear onstage. He tied reunited with Nice bandmates Brian Davison and Lee Jackson for a show in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2002 (Vivacitas). He penned an autobiography, Pictures of an Exhibitionist, in 2004 and received the compiling treatment from Castle Records in 2005 with the two-disc Hammer It Out: The Anthology.
