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Paul Brannigan

"There was about 380 people in the hall, sold out. There wasn’t a woman in sight." Carl Palmer looks back on the earliest Emerson, Lake & Palmer shows

ELP.

In April, Carl Palmer will undertake a North American tour celebrating the music and legacy of ELP. The An Evening with Emerson, Lake & Palmer tour will feature the 75-year-old progressive rock drum legend performing live alongside videos of the late Greg Lake and Keith Emerson filmed at the trio's October 2 and 3, 1992 concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall.

"The first three weeks of going through all the footage to make the show was really hard, very difficult," Palmer tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive new career-spanning interview. "But after the three weeks, I figured, Well, they would want this. They wouldn’t want holograms. After that, I was okay seeing them every day. It was actually comforting, to be honest with you."

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