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
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.
What we're doing is a retrospective, a refined look at how far we've come in what's known as progressive music and investigate and explore that.