It seems remarkable that Greg Lake – one of rock’s classiest, most regal-sounding singers, and a man who was a match for any one of the genre’s greats – made just two studio solo albums before his sad passing from pancreatic cancer in 2016 at the age of 69.
As Prog Editor Jerry Ewing points out in his detailed sleeve notes for this extensive box set, Lake knew that anything he recorded was unlikely to stand shoulder to shoulder with the masterful LPs he made with King Crimson and ELP; works that were part of the very fabric of prog’s late-60s/early-70s reign. If Lake felt his muse had gone AWOL, he was perfectly content to down tools, “remain silent” and turn his attention to family life in rural Dorset instead.
