Emerson, Keith
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Wikipedia-Article "Keith Emerson"
Keith Emerson (born November 2, 1944) is a British keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of The T-Bones, V.I.P.s and as backing band to P.P. Arnold (which evolved into The Nice), he went on to start Emerson Lake and Palmer (ELP), one of the first supergroups, in 1970. Following the first breakup of ELP circa 1979, Emerson went on to modest success with other bands including Emerson, Lake & Powell, Three and subsequent ELP reunions during the early 90's. He reunited The Nice in the mid-'90s to go on tour and currently tours (through 2005) with The Keith Emerson Band.
Emerson was born in Todmorden, England. As a child, he learned western classical music, from which he derived a lot of inspiration to create his own style, combining classical music, jazz, and rock themes. As a performer on the Hammond organ, Emerson jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with Robert Moog, and work with his invention, the Moog Modular, an analog synthesizer, in 1969. While other artists such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had used the Moog, Emerson was the first artist to tour with one.
He is known for his technical virtuosity and for his live antics, including using knives to hold down organ keys during solos, playing the organ upside down while having it lie over him and employing a special rig to rotate his piano end-over-end while he's "playing" it (purely theatrical, since acoustic pianos cannot function when turned upside down in this manner). Along with contemporaries Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, Tony Banks of Genesis, and Rick Wakeman of Yes, Emerson is widely regarded as one of the top keyboard players of the progressive rock era.
In 2004 Emerson published his critically acclaimed autobiography entitled "Pictures of an Exhibitionist" which deals with his entire career, particularly focusing on his early days with The Nice and his nearly career ending nerve-graft surgery in 1993.
External links
- http://www.keithemerson.com/
- http://www.brain-salad.com/Emerson/emerson.html
- http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/emerson_keith/bio.jhtml
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer |
| Keith Emerson | Greg Lake | Carl Palmer |
| Original studio albums |
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| Emerson, Lake and Palmer | Tarkus | Trilogy | Brain Salad Surgery | Works Volume I | Works Volume II | Love Beach | Black Moon |
| Records with other lineups |
| Emerson, Lake and Powell | To The Power Of Three |
| Live albums |
| Pictures at an Exhibition | Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends | Works Live | Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Royal Albert Hall | Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 |
| Compilations |
| The Return of the Manticore | The Best of Emerson, Lake and Palmer |