”Three highly gifted men with the capacity to behave like spoilt brats in each others’ company”: Emerson, Lake & Palmer often didn’t work. But then, neither did projects that featured just two of the trio

Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

While Emerson, Lake & Palmer made a great deal of majestic music, the supergroup’s reputation for pomposity and excess often did them no favours. That was partly down to the their strong personalities. But ahead of ELP’s final concert in 2010, Prog pointed out that they’d struggled even when one of those personalities was missing.

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