Emerson, Lake & Palmer News

Actor Russell Johnson is 85. Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer is 62. Actress-dancer Ann Reinking is 60.

With remainder copies of 2006 effort Rudebox literally used for road paving in China, Williams has taken more care this time with his usual self-casting as man of the moment.

Ladies, gentlemen, permit me to present to you the stone cold weirdest SF music ever recorded: ELPa TMs 1971 magnum opus Tarkus .

Friendly Rich reinterprets Mussorgsky, loosely Friendly Rich uses a pennywhistle, toy piano and kazoo in his a butcheringa of Mussorgskya s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Singer Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs and the Coasters is 72. Singer Jay Black is 71.

SOUTHPORT, Conn. - Dee Anthony, who began a 40-year music-managing career representing neighborhood friend Jerry Vale in the 1950s and later worked for Tony Bennett, Peter Frampton and other popular artists, died Sunday.

Blabbermouth and Decibel Magazine are reporting that Dickie Peterson, bassist and singer of Blue Cheer died this morning at age 61.

Once upon a time, it was perfectly acceptable to lug six keyboards onstage at a rock concert and launch into a piano solo.

Only a fool would label Annie Haslam crazy when she says she once filmed a UFO that was also a man's head in the sky over Brazil.

One of the pieces that drew me into the world of classical music as a young teen was 'Pictures at an Exhibition' by Modest Mussorgsky.

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer were progressive rock's first supergroup. Greeted by the rock press and the public as something akin to conquering heroes, they succeeded in broadening the audience for progressive rock from hundreds of thousands into tens of millions of listeners, creating a major radio phenomenon as well.

Progressive rock - with its serpentine attack, long solos, complex time signatures, dense textures and mystical lyrics - has had an ambiguous relationship with the rock 'n' roll field at large, particularly in the United States.

For real. So, of course, we obliged . And while they'll perform "Uprising" - the first single from their upcoming The Resistance - during the VMAs telecast, we also let them loose on a classic from the Great White Way: "America," the flamboyant standard from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's "West Side Story." "Yeah, 'West Side Story' is ...

1970 - Elton John made his live debut in the United States opening for David Ackles at "The Troubadour" in Los Angeles.

The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated" was written by lead singer Joey Ramone after an accidental encounter with an exploding humidifier.

Blk Jks, After Robots . A progressive rock band from South Africa? On the revered indie label Secretly Canadian? Yes, that's rich.

Mike Perciaccante has been contributing to All About Jazz since 2002. He also contributes to many other magazines across the country.

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova record and tour together using the name The Swell Season, which is a shorter but far less descriptive moniker than "Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Who Won Oscars for the Song 'Falling Slowly,' From the Hit Indie Musical Once ." So when we informed our coworkers that last Wednesday's Tiny Desk Concert would ...

After hearing Yes and Asia perform Sunday night at Sands RiverPlace, you'd think that great prog rock never really went away.