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Emerson, Lake & Powell were an English rock band, an offshoot or variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, that released one official
studio album in 1986.
Keith Emerson and Greg Lake had planned to re-form the original ELP in 1985 but drummer Carl Palmer was unavailable because of
contractual obligations to Asia. After auditioning a series of drummers unwilling to commit to the band, they approached Cozy Powell, a
longtime friend of Emerson's, to replace him. The band have always insisted that it was a coincidence that h ...read more
Emerson, Lake & Powell were an English rock band, an offshoot or variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, that released one official
studio album in 1986.
Keith Emerson and Greg Lake had planned to re-form the original ELP in 1985 but drummer Carl Palmer was unavailable because of
contractual obligations to Asia. After auditioning a series of drummers unwilling to commit to the band, they approached Cozy Powell, a
longtime friend of Emerson's, to replace him. The band have always insisted that it was a coincidence that his surname also happened to start
with a P, thus allowing the band to retain its original initials, although they also joked about looking for a "Gene Prupa" and having
approached "Phil Pollins" and "Ringo Parr" before Powell agreed to join. Shortly into recording, Emerson's barn studio was destroyed by a
runaway tractor, requiring some parts of the album be rerecorded, leading him to joke, "Perhaps we should have called it 'Emerson, Lake &
Plow!'".
The band's self-titled studio album was a return to the familiar ELP style, with long progressive rock suites, mellow ballads and a classical
theme ("Mars, the Bringer of War" by Gustav Holst). One song, "The Score", even references the lyric "Welcome back, my friends, to the
show that never ends" from ELP's "Karn Evil 9: First Impression" from the Brain Salad Surgery album.
In live performance the band of course also performed classic ELP and The Nice material.
The band's live tour was marred by a dispute which led to the band firing its management, and "ELPowell" disbanded without recording a
second album. Emerson rejoined Palmer and with Robert Berry formed the band 3 in 1988, before the original ELP lineup reformed for 1992's
album Black Moon, which bears some stylistic similarities to the Emerson, Lake & Powell album. « hide |
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