Heartbreaking: Carl Palmer English drummer Just Passed Away At the Aged of 78…see..more..But I couldn’t really place what the song was about. I was out driving one day and it was playing on my mind, and, all of a sudden, it occurred to me that the tune of ‘Jingle Bells’ fitted over it…. I thought, ‘Ah… I wonder if this could be a song about Christmas?'”
For what it’s worth, Peter has a slightly different story: “I remember him playing the riff and me saying it sounds like a Christmas song. Him saying it was not the sort of thing he would do. It’s out of characte
“Not that it matters. It’s quite amusing that there are two egos here, both of which might supersede the truth
It was Keith Emerson who suggested using elements of the ‘Troika’ portion of Sergei Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite (written for 1934 movie Lieutenant Kijé) in the instrumental riff between verses to lighten the mood.Greg Lake was still very much a member of Emerson, Lake and Palmer when he decided to simultaneously strike out on his ow
Well, what actually happened was Keith Emerson wanted to do a solo side for ELP’s upcoming Works album. That meant Greg Lake and Carl Palmer each doing their own side, to
Needing a hand, Greg got in touch with his old King Crimson pal Peter Sinfield, who had written the lyrics and co-produced his former band’s 1969 genre-defining classic debut In The Court of the Crimson Kin
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