The supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer will have their first ‘definitive’ book
The supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer will have their first book ELP launched later this year.
ELP was brought into existence by Carl Palmer and the families of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake. They both died in 2016. The book contains unpublished interviews, never-before-seen pictures, recordings and much more.
“This is the definitive Emerson, Lake & Palmer book,” Palmer said in a statement as per Rolling Stone. “There are photographs which I’ve never, ever seen before — can you imagine, after all this time? This is the story as it happened, as the group told it, because it’s in our own words. What a fantastic book.”
The book will be available for preorder in May. There are three editions of the book: Classic, Signature, and Ultimate. The Signature and Ultimate are signed by Palmer and family members. it also contains an additional CD that holds archival interviews and other items.
Lake had a conversation with Rolling Stone about the trio in 2013- as well as “From the Beginning,” included on our list of essential ELP songs.
“Although we did some extravagant things — though they look tame and restrained by today’s standards — but at the time we had 140 people on the road with 11 tractor-trailers. We had our own doctor and all these crazy things. But for us, it was not just trying to be as loud and as big as we could. We were always trying to go one step further, one step bigger. In the end, it became a huge production, but it wasn’t gratuitous. It was linked directly to the music.”
