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 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.
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.
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.
We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.
Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.
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.
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.
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.