The Isle Of Wight Festival saw the first true super group of the 70´as get the springboard to international sucess they were soon to become accustomed to. Three very talented musicians from three sucessful bands had decided to pool their resources and have a bath. What they ended up doing was taking Progressive Rock to the outer limits of indulgence, whilst throwing in many a jaw dropping performance along the way.Keith Emerson from The Nice, Greg Lake from King Crimson and Atomic Rooster´s Carl Palmer took the Isle Of Wight stage for only their second time as a band, and proceeded to blow the minds of many of the thousands of sun drenched hippies there.
Emerson´s love for classical music had often been show cased in The Nice, his quite remarkable keyboard skills would be pushed to the limits in ELP, and set against Lake´s more down to earth song writing and Palmer´s dynamic percussive ability, the stage was set for an explosve performance. Their short 55 min set was new to the vast audience.
ELP were praised and panned after the Isle Of Wight show, thousands loved them, some thought it was all too much pomp, in the wrong circumstance. Either way the self-titled debut-album was a hit and the shows became longer and much more spectacular, and often involved an orchestra, a Persian rug and lots more organ abuse ...
Keith Emerson (keyboards)
Greg Lake (vocals, bass, guitar)
Carl Palmer (drums)
01. The Barbarian (Bartok) 5.07
02. Take A Pebble (Lake) 11.47
03. Pictures At An Exhibition (Mussorgsky, aditional music & lyrics: Emerson, Lake & Palmer) 35.49
04. Rondo (Bach) 4.12
05. Nutrocker (Tschaikovsky) 4.49
06. Interview 6.14
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