Keith Emerson
Keith Emerson
Keith Noel Emersonwas an English musician and composer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before he found his first commercial success with the Nice, formerly P. P. Arnold's backing band, in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. After leaving the Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, one of the early progressive rock supergroups. Emerson, Lake &...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth2 November 1944
We can all put weight on or lose weight.
At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.
If they want a photograph, then just take it.
I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.
You've got to keep things flying.
What can you do? You've gotta move on.
We set the stage worldwide to go into the new millenium. I have all the music. Carl Palmer loves the music, he wants to play it.
I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.
They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.
We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.
Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.
We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.
There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.