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Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
English progressive rock band
1
Greg Lake
Greg Lake
English bassist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer
2
Keith Emerson
Keith Emerson
British recording artist; keyboard player and composer (1944-2016)
3
Carl Palmer
Carl Palmer
English drummer
4
The Nice
The Nice
band
5
Cozy Powell
Cozy Powell
English rock drummer
6
Asia
Asia
English rock band
7
Qango
Qango
English rock band
8
King Crimson
King Crimson
British progressive rock band
9
Mitch Mitchell
Mitch Mitchell
English drummer (1946-2008)
10
Geoff Downes
Geoff Downes
English keyboardist
11
Triumvirat
Triumvirat
German progressive rock band
12
Neil Murray
Neil Murray
British musician
13
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald
English musician, a founder of King Crimson
14
Ken Hensley
Ken Hensley
British musician
15
John Wetton
John Wetton
English bassist and vocalist
16
Mastermind
Mastermind
American progressive rock band
17
Lee Jackson
Lee Jackson
British bass guitarist
18
Rainbow
Rainbow
English rock band
19
Peter Sinfield
Peter Sinfield
British poet, musician and record producer
20
Black Oak Arkansas
Black Oak Arkansas
American Southern rock band
21
Yes
Yes
English rock band
22
Bad Company
Bad Company
English rock supergroup
23
Flash
Flash
English progressive rock band
24
Richard Fraser
Richard Fraser
British lyricist
25
UK
UK
British progressive rock supergroup
26
Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden
British musician
27
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Toad the Wet Sprocket
American alternative rock band
28
Supertramp
Supertramp
British band
29
Faces
Faces
English rock band
30
Wishbone Ash
Wishbone Ash
British rock band
31
Jon Lord
Jon Lord
English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player
32
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Italian band
33
David Rosenthal
David Rosenthal
American musician
34
Procol Harum
Procol Harum
British band

Emerson, Lake & Powell, sometimes abbreviated as ELP, were an English progressive rock band, considered by many as a variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, that released one official studio album in 1986. The album's debut single was "Touch and Go" which peaked at number 60 on the Billboard charts on 19 July 1986.

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake had planned to re-form the original ELP in 1984, 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 to be rerecorded, leading him to joke, "Perhaps we should have called it 'Emerson, Lake & Plough!'"

The band's self-titled studio album was a return to the familiar ELP style, with long progressive rock tracks, mellow ballads and a classical theme ("Mars, the Bringer of War" by Gustav Holst, a piece previously performed by Lake during his tenure in King Crimson). 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" (on the album Brain Salad Surgery). Initially, when the record company suggested that the group perform "Mars," Emerson refused, saying it would be like ELP Plays the Classics or Richard Clayderman Plays 'Clair de Lune'. After Powell showed him a video of one of his former bands playing the number, however, Emerson agreed to try it.

In live performance, the band also performed classic ELP and Nice material, such as Tarkus, Pirates, Lucky Man and Rondo.

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.

Some Emerson, Lake & Powell live in the studio rehearsals and live recordings found their way onto bootlegs in the 1990s. The material was subsequently remastered and given an official release on two 2003 CDs, initially only available via the ELP website on Manticore Records.

All three members of the group have since died. Cozy Powell died in a car crash at age 50 on 5 April 1998. Keith Emerson died at age 71 on 11 March 2016, from a gunshot to the head ruled as suicide, and Greg Lake died of pancreatic cancer at age 69 on 7 December 2016.