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”Three highly gifted men with the capacity to behave like spoilt brats in each others’ company”: Emerson, Lake & Palmer often didn’t work. But then, neither did projects that featured just two of the trio

Massive musical ability crossed with pomposity and excess made it difficult for the supergroup to meet expectations – but even with one of the giant personalities missing, the other pair could struggled to deliver

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“I don’t think he ever got over being fired from King Crimson… but he went on to bigger, more financially successful things”: Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to ELP, Roxy Music and many others

Lyricist, art director, producer and all-round creative who aimed to enlighten, provoke or stir died in November 2024 without being fully aware of what he’d achieved

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“It seemed to me that America was ruled by the gun… if you don’t like the President, shoot him”: Flag-burning prog innovators The Nice found trouble on stage and off it

Keith Emerson, Davy O’List and Lee Jackson created enough controversy to last for decades in their original three-year run

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“I’ve always wanted to be in a metal band… Pantera and Dream Theater are great”: Carl Palmer on his desire for a life beyond classic prog, the final ELP show, and why he wishes they’d had a guitarist

After Emerson Lake & Palmer’s High Voltage concert, the drummer shared his thoughts on his former bandmates and pondered an unfulfilled ambition

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“Andrew Loog Oldham asked if we were songwriters. I said we were – then I had to go away and figure out how you wrote songs”: The Nice helped found prog and merged classical music with rock, then they were gone

Prompted by a disagreement that spilled into the public domain, co-founders Keith Emerson and Lee Jackson once visited the Prog office to set things straight

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"It's unlikely that I'll ever listen to any other Asia albums but only time will tell": Asia upset the prog purists and delight their bank managers on freakishly successful debut album

Featuring members of Yes, ELP and King Crimson, Asia were billed as a prog rock supergroup but kept it concise, to enormous success

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“The sort of thing which got prog a bad name, but which now seems increasingly bold and ambitious”: 10 essential Greg Lake songs

From King Crimson to ELP and beyond, he left a catalogue of impressive creations from an extraordinary musical journey which included that Christmas song

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Peter Sinfield obituary

Lyricist, record producer and co-founder of the prog rock band King Crimson

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“John Peel said we were a waste of talent and electricity… It had become de rigueur to knock us”: Emerson Lake & Palmer and the making of Brain Salad Surgery

The prog supergroup were at their creative peak when they created the 1973 epic that took the world by storm, despite the apparent hordes of critics

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Robert Fripp and Carl Palmer lead tributes to Pete Sinfield who has died, aged 80

King Crimson and ELP producer and lyricist Pete Sinfield sadly died on Thursday, aged 80

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Peter Sinfield, lyricist for King Crimson, Céline Dion and more, dies aged 80

Versatile poet and music producer co-founded King Crimson, produced Roxy Music’s debut album and had a long partnership with Greg Lake

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“A much better testimony to ELP’s legacy than the original incarnation’s risible swan song Love Beach”: Emerson, Lake & Powell’s The Complete Collection

The other ELP’s sole album remastered and bulked out, frustratingly showing how good a live act they were

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"All of a sudden we play at blinding speed and unbearable intensity, and everyone starts to take notice and stand up": How King Crimson got started

Recorded in just 10 days in 1969, King Crimson’s iconic In The Court Of The Crimson King has been called “the true point at which progressive rock was born”. We look at the making of a landmark album

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“Our music teacher would belt us if we didn’t know all the musical signs and notes. She used to play Mussorgsky… so I love ELP’s version of Pictures At An Exhibition”: Simple Minds’ Derek Forbes names his prog heroes

Bassist explains new wave outfit were massive Genesis fans when they started out – and he used to sing the whole of Foxtrot while working as a painter and decorator

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"Keith had so much criticism after that 3 album. He was susceptible to that kind of thing." Robert Berry on his work and relationship with Keith Emerson

Three years after the release of The Rules Have Changed, Robert Berry revisited the music he made with Keith Emerson for a brand new recording, Third Impression

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We celebrate the 80s prog revival on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Greg Lake, Yes, Nektar, Francis Dunnery, Moon Safari, Cyan, Tarja, Mariusz Duda, Earthside, Matt Berry and loads more...

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Prog's ultimate Christmas Tracks Of The Week

It's your chance to choose your favourite prog Christmas song in this week's seasonal poll

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“The esteem in which his talent was held is reflected… Yet some of the most fascinating tracks here are by his pre-fame 60s bands”: Greg Lake’s Magical box set

7-disc compilation celebrates his solo endeavours in style

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“There are some good things on it… I just find it hard to believe we called a prog album Love Beach, and the three of us look like the Bee Gees. That’s a prog cover?” Carl Palmer on ELP’s most misguided moment

Drummer admits the trio had reached the end of their collective creativity and had actually split before making 1978 album that showed “America had got to us, obviously!”

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"So Jaco Pastorius and Joni Mitchell walk past and ask, ‘Hey, is there a party here?’." The story of Italian prog legends PFM

Newly signed to InsideOut Music, Italin prog legends Premiata Forneria Marconi return with new album Emotional Tattoos in both English and Italian

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“There’s a tendency for people to cherry-pick tracks or create playlists… we prefer our music to be listened to from the opening track to the final notes”: Downes Braide Association on the album as art form

Geoff Downes and Chris Braide argue the case for storytelling, collaborating, and carrying on the legacies of John Wetton, Greg Lake, Chris Squire and Keith Emerson

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“I shrugged off advice and instead went headlong into experimenting with different musical ideas. Not my best ever move”: Greg Lake’s faltering reboot after ELP split

He later described his disappointing debut solo album as “actually about who I’m not, rather than who I am”

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I got shot down many times: ‘Oh, it’s pop. Oh, it’s bubblegum… the logo is ugly and we don’t hear a single!’” How John Wetton and Asia dialled up their debut album

The fleeting moment when a prog supergroup hijacked the US pop charts, becoming 1982's band of the summer

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“Some guy who obviously didn’t recognise me said, ‘You just ruined a classic song.’ But another chap replied, ‘He’s allowed. He wrote the song!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident

The keyboard legend's jam-packed career saw interactions with a varied cast from the ‘strange’ Dario Argento to Motörhead’s Lemmy

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Carl Palmer sends fans message after heart surgery

Carl Palmer's Return of Emerson, Lake & Palmer 2023 Summer tour kicks off in the US in July

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