Welcome Back My Friends: A People’s History of Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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Welcome Back MyFriends – A People’s History of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an oral historyof one of the giants of the British progressive rock world. As ELP, KeithEmerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer had five Top Ten UK albums, including a No. 1 with 1971’s Tarkus, and a UK No.2 single with 1977’s ‘Fanfare for The CommonMan’. With an estimated 48 million album sales worldwide, including nineRIAA-certified gold albums in the USA, ELP remain one of the biggest bands ofthe 1970s. Famed for the flamboyant stage antics of Emerson on the Hammondorgan and Moog synthesiser, and mixing elements of classical and jazz musicwith symphonic rock, over 100 different ELP concerts are remembered through thememories of more than 400 fans in this fully authorised history of the band.