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Malcolm Dome

“Andrew Loog Oldham asked if we were songwriters. I said we were – then I had to go away and figure out how you wrote songs”: The Nice helped found prog and merged classical music with rock, then they were gone

The Nice.

In 2011 a dispute between former members of The Nice spilled into the public domain after guitarist Davy O’List discussed his part in their 1968 debut album The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack. Upset by his comments, former bandmates Keith Emerson (1944-2016) and Lee Jackson dropped into the Prog office to give their account of proceedings.


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