{"id":13817,"date":"2020-09-09T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=13817"},"modified":"2020-09-09T20:37:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T20:37:45","slug":"greg-lake-the-anthology-a-prog-music-journey-to-be-released-october-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/greg-lake-the-anthology-a-prog-music-journey-to-be-released-october-23\/","title":{"rendered":"GREG LAKE THE ANTHOLOGY – A Prog Music Journey to be released October 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Shame, The Shy Limbs, King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, solo artist, producer, composer, lyricist, bass player extraordinaire<\/em>, Greg Lake had it all.  On October 23rd, BMG will pay fitting tribute to Greg Lake\u2019s career journey with \u2018The Anthology\u2019, an essential collection of his outstanding songs and iconic performances. 

\u2018The Anthology\u2019 has many notable highlights: for starters there\u2019s the hugely collectable Psych 45 \u2018Love\u2019 that Lake recorded in 1969 whilst with the Shy Limbs, alongside carefully curated treasures from ELP\u2019s hit albums, notably \u2018Take A Pebble\u2019, \u2018C\u2019est La Vie\u2019 and \u2018Lucky Man\u2019. <\/em>No Anthology would be complete without that much-loved solo hit \u2018I Believe In Father Christmas\u2019, the inclusion of King Crimson\u2019s \u201821st<\/sup> Schizoid Man\u2019, \u2018Peace\u2019 and \u2018In The Court Of The Crimson King\u2019, plus Greg\u2019s re-recording of the old ELP favorite \u2018Closer To Believing\u2019 which he made towards the end of his life and can be heard on CD2.

\u2018The Anthology\u2019 is presented as a deluxe 2CD hardback set and on double gatefold vinyl. Inside is an extended essay from author Chris Welch alongside a host of unseen photographs alongside contributions from ELP manager Stewart Young and Greg Lake\u2019s wife of 40 years, Regina Lake, and many heartfelt tributes from other friends and colleagues.

Gregory Stuart Lake<\/strong> was born on November 10th, 1947 in Poole, Dorset. Greg was given his first guitar by his mother at the age of 12 and he took individual lessons with guitar teacher Don Strike, who also taught Al Stewart, Andy Summers and Robert Fripp.  Once Greg learned some basic chords he wrote his first song, \u2018Lucky Man\u2019, which would become one of ELP\u2019s best loved tracks. 

At 17, Lake joined the group Unit Four as lead singer and guitarist. Unit Four split up in 1965 and in 1966, Greg formed the Time Checks. His next group was The Shame, who in 1967 recorded a Janis Ian song, \u2018Don\u2019t Go \u2018Way Little Girl\u2019. Greg\u2019s confident voice is unmistakable even then. After The Shame came The Shy Limbs who recorded two cult psychedelic singles in 1969, including \u2018Reputation\u2019 with Greg singing lead vocals on the B-side, \u2018Love\u2019. He was later invited to join The Gods, with Ken Hensley and Lee Kerslake, who went on to form Uriah Heep. Six months into a Gods\u2019 residency at the Marquee Club in London, Greg returned home to Bournemouth where Robert Fripp had asked him to become lead singer and bass player with the band that was to become King Crimson.

On December 10th, 1969, at San Francisco\u2019s Fillmore West during a U.S. tour, King Crimson were billed alongside fellow British group The Nice, led by showman organist Keith Emerson. When King Crimson arrived in San Francisco, members Ian McDonald and Michael Giles announced they were leaving the band. Greg and Keith met backstage and discussed a partnership that would lead to the creation of a phenomenal, ground-breaking new rock group that went on to conquer the world.

On their return to London, Greg left King Crimson and Keith quit The Nice. They recruited virtuoso drummer Carl Palmer, formerly with the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer was born. Signed to Atlantic Records in America and Island in the U.K., ELP premiered at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival where a huge audience were left astonished by the dynamic arrangements from their self-titled debut album. 

ELP soon achieved global success, unleashing a succession of Gold and six Platinum albums including Emerson, Lake & Palmer<\/em>, Tarkus<\/em>, Pictures At An Exhibition<\/em>, Trilogy<\/em>, Brain Salad Surgery<\/em>, Welcome Back My Friends…To The Show That Never Ends<\/em> and Works Volume 1<\/em>. At the helm was Stewart Young, who became the band\u2019s manager at the personal request of Greg Lake. Stewart and Greg remained close friends until the latter\u2019s tragic death in 2016.

ELP took a break after Brain Salad Surgery <\/em>and, in 1975, Greg\u2019s \u2018I Believe In Father Christmas\u2019 became a number two solo hit in the UK singles chart. It has since become a perennial Christmas classic, often copied but never bettered. Stewart: \u201cGreg had come up with this idea for a Christmas song. He told me: \u2018I really love Christmas and it\u2019s important to me\u2019. He wanted to write one that wasn\u2019t too sugary. When he got out his guitar and played me the song, I said: \u2018Wow – it\u2019s fantastic.\u2019 Keith Emerson also loved it and suggested an idea that would work well with the song\u201d. Keith inserted part of Prokofiev\u2019s Lieutenant Kij\u00e9 <\/em>orchestral suite, with the familiar \u2018Troika\u2019 theme played on keyboards. 

Following Greg\u2019s solo success, in 1977 ELP released the album Works Volume 1<\/em>, which had one side featuring Keith\u2019s Concerto, one by Greg, another by Carl Palmer and a fourth by ELP with an orchestra. The tracks included Aaron Copland\u2019s \u2018Fanfare For The Common Man\u2019 and Greg\u2019s haunting ballad \u2018C\u2019est La Vie\u2019. In 1978, after enormous worldwide success, the release of studio album Love Beach<\/em> and a farewell tour, ELP broke up. While Love Beach <\/em>is regarded by many as untypical of ELP\u2019s style, it included some songs sung with tenderness and strength, notably Greg\u2019s \u2018For You\u2019. 

In 1981 Greg released an acclaimed, eponymously titled solo album. Lead guitarist Gary Moore joined the band and they went on tour. A concert they recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in London, on 5th <\/sup>November 1981 featured an incredible version of King Crimson\u2019s \u201821st Century Schizoid Man\u2019, which is included on this Anthology. In 1983, Greg released his second solo album, Manoeuvres<\/em>, that yielded \u2018Haunted\u2019, a ballad he sang with considerable emotion, and the achingly beautiful \u2018Slave To Love\u2019.

Eager to revive the spirit of ELP, Keith and Greg teamed up with drummer Cozy Powell, as Carl Palmer was involved with Asia and unavailable. They released Emerson, Lake & Powell<\/em> in 1985, a record that included the magnificent \u2018Touch And Go\u2019.

The original ELP, with Carl Palmer, then reunited for the Black Moon <\/em>album in 1992. A subsequent tour captured on an exciting 1993 live album. Paper Blood<\/em> revealed an ELP determined to rock out and reach a new generation of fans. The band embarked on a successful tour of America but lapsed into inactivity later in the decade. Determined to stay musically active, in 2001 Greg toured with Ringo Starr\u2019s All-Starr Band and in 2005, the newly formed Greg Lake Band toured the UK with Brett Morgan (drums), Trevor Barry (bass), Florian Opahle (guitar) and Dave Arch (keys) playing new interpretations of ELP classics.

In 2009, Greg and Keith decided to write together and, in the breaks, played some old ELP numbers for fun. They were intrigued by how they sounded with just the two of them, taking the songs back to their roots. A US tour followed, yielding a live album that included \u2018Bitches Crystal\u2019, \u2018The Barbarian\u2019 and \u2018Take A Pebble\u2019. In 2010 the final appearance by the original ELP came at the High Voltage rock festival held in London\u2019s Victoria Park. 

In 2012 Lake embarked on his \u2018Once In A Lifetime\u2019 Tour where one of favorite gigs was recorded live at the Teatro Municipale, in Piacenza, Italy. In 2014, Lake was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Stewart: \u201cI went to see Greg just four days before he passed away. He was obviously in terrible shape, but I took a little portable player with me and his new album Live In Piacenza <\/em>that he\u2019d recorded in Italy. I\u2019d also got the final mix of his new version of \u2018Closer To Believing\u2019, which I thought was fabulous.\u201d Stewart asked Greg if he\u2019d like to hear the track, even though they were in a hospice and the music was quite loud. Should he turn it down? Greg replied: \u201cWell it\u2019s only four o\u2019clock in the afternoon – turn it up!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>And he loved it. This was four days before he died.\u201d

GREG LAKE –\u00a0THE ANTHOLOGY CD ONE (& DIGITAL):<\/strong>

1.\u00a0King Crimson\u00a0–\u00a0Peace\u00a0–\u00a0A Beginning
From the album\u00a0In the Wake of Poseidon<\/em>\u00a0by King Crimson, 1970

2.\u00a0The Shame\u00a0–\u00a0Don’t Go ‘Way Little Girl\u00a0(Single Mix)
From The Shame single \u2018Don’t Go ‘Way Little Girl\u2019, 1967

3.\u00a0The Shy Limbs\u00a0–\u00a0Love\u00a0(Single Mix)
From The\u00a0Shy Limbs\u00a0single \u2018Reputation\u2019, 1969

4.\u00a0King Crimson\u00a0–\u00a0The Court of the Crimson King\u00a0(Live at the Fillmore West, San Francisco,\u00a0
From the album\u00a0Epitaph<\/em>\u00a0by King Crimson, 1997

5. Emersion, Lake & Palmer\u00a0Take A Pebble
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Emerson Lake & Palmer<\/em>, 1970

6.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0Lucky Man
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Emerson Lake & Palmer<\/em>, 1970

7.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0The Only Way (Hymn)
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Tarkus<\/em>, 1971

8.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0Oh My Father\u00a0(2012 Stereo Mix)
Extra track from the 2016 deluxe edition of the the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Tarkus<\/em>, originally released in 1971

9.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0The Great Gates Of Kiev (Live at Newcastle City Hall, 26th<\/sup>\u00a0March 1971)
From the\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Pictures At An Exhibition<\/em>, 1971

10.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0From The Beginning
From the Emersion, Lake & Palmer album\u00a0Trilogy<\/em>, 1972

11.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0Trilogy (First Section)
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Trilogy<\/em>, 1972

12.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0The Endless Enigma (Part Two)
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Trilogy<\/em>, 1972

13.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0Still … You Turn Me On
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer album\u00a0Brain Salad Surgery<\/em>, 1973

14.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0‘Epitaph’ from\u00a0Tarkus<\/em>: vi.\u00a0Battlefield\u00a0(Live, 1973\/74)
From the\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends ~ Ladies and Gentlemen<\/em>, 1974\u00a0

15.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0I Believe In Father Christmas\u00a0(Original Single Version)
From the Greg Lake single \u2018I Believe In Father Christmas\u2019, 1975

16.\u00a0Greg Lake\u00a0–\u00a0Closer To Believing\u00a0(Final Version, 2016)
Previously unreleased 2016 version. Originally from the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Works Volume 1<\/em>, 1977


GREG LAKE – THE ANTHOLOGY DISC TWO (& DIGITAL):<\/strong>

1.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0C’est La Vie
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Works Volume 1<\/em>, 1977

2.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0Lend Your Love To Me Tonight
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Works Volume 1<\/em>, 1977

3. Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0Watching Over You
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer album\u00a0Works Volume 2<\/em>, 1977

4.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0For You
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Love Beach<\/em>, 1978

5.\u00a0Greg Lake\u00a0–\u00a0Black And Blue
From the Greg Lake\u00a0album\u00a0Greg Lake<\/em>, 1981

6.\u00a0Greg Lake\u00a0–\u00a0It Hurts
From the Greg Lake album\u00a0Greg Lake<\/em>, 1981

7.\u00a0Greg Lake\u00a0–\u00a0Haunted
From the Greg Lake album\u00a0Manoeuvres<\/em>, 1983

8.\u00a0Greg Lake\u00a0–\u00a0Slave To Love
From the Greg Lake album\u00a0Manoeuvres<\/em>, 1983

9.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Powell\u00a0–\u00a0Touch And Go
From the Emerson, Lake & Powell album\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Powell<\/em>, 1986

10.\u00a0Greg Lake & Geoff Downes\u00a0–\u00a0Affairs Of The Heart
From the Greg Lake & Geoff Downes album\u00a0Ride The Tiger<\/em>, 2015

11. Emersion, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0Paper Blood
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer album\u00a0Black Moon<\/em>, 1992\u00a0

12.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0Daddy
From the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0In The Hot Seat<\/em>, 1994

13.\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0–\u00a0The Sage\u00a0(1994 Studio Version)
Extra track from the 2016 deluxe edition of the Emerson, Lake & Palmer\u00a0album\u00a0Pictures At An Exhibition<\/em>, originally released in 1971

14.\u00a0Greg Lake\u00a0–\u00a021st Century Schizoid Man\u00a0(Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 5th<\/sup>\u00a0November 1981)
From the Greg Lake album\u00a0London \u201981<\/em>, by Greg Lake, originally released in 1995

15.\u00a0Greg Lake\u00a0–\u00a0I Talk To The Wind\u00a0(Live from the ‘Songs Of A Lifetime Tour\u2019, USA, 2012)
From the Greg Lake album\u00a0Songs Of A Lifetime<\/em>, 2013. Venue unknown

16.\u00a0Greg Lake\u00a0–\u00a0Karn Evil 9 1st Impression – Part 2\u00a0(Live at Teatro Municipale, Piacenza, Italy, 28th\u00a0\u00a0November 2012)\u00a0
From the Greg Lake album\u00a0Live in Piacenza<\/em>, 2017

17.\u00a0King Crimson\u00a0–\u00a0Peace – An End\u00a0\u00a0
From the album\u00a0In the Wake of Poseidon<\/em>\u00a0by King Crimson, 1970

\u00a0To purchase audio CD ‘The Anthology: A Musical Journey’ visit:
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