{"id":41703,"date":"2016-03-11T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=41703"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:39:33","slug":"news-emerson-lake-and-palmer-keyboardist-keith-emerson-dies-aged-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-emerson-lake-and-palmer-keyboardist-keith-emerson-dies-aged-71\/","title":{"rendered":"EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Keyboardist Keith Emerson Dies Aged 71 (March 11th, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Keyboardist Keith Emerson Dies Aged 71<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarch 11th, 2016<\/strong><\/span>
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\nKeith Emerson, co-founding keyboardist of English progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer, passed away on March 11th, 2016 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 71. The Santa Monica Police Department revealed that Emerson had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n

Emerson, Lake & Palmer drummer Carl Palmer issued the following statement: \u201cI am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my good friend and brother-in-music, Keith Emerson. Keith was a gentle soul whose love for music and passion for his performance as a keyboard player will remain unmatched for many years to come. He was a pioneer and an innovator whose musical genius touched all of us in the worlds of rock, classical and jazz. I will always remember his warm smile, good sense of humor, compelling showmanship, and dedication to his musical craft. I am very lucky to have known him and to have made the music we did, together. Rest in peace, Keith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keith Noel Emerson was born on November 2nd, 1944 in Todmorden, Yorkshire, and came to prominence as a musician with the progressive rock band The Nice, whom he co-founded in 1967. The Nice released three studio albums The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack<\/em> (1967), Ars Longa Vita Brevis<\/em> (November 1968) and Nice<\/em> (September 1969) before splitting in March 1970.<\/p>\n

Emerson, Lake & Palmer was formed in 1970, consisting of Emerson, guitarist Greg Lake (formerly of King Crimson) and drummer Carl Palmer (ex-The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown). Following a performance at the Isle Of Wight festival on August 29th that year, the trio were signed by Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records. A self-titled record arrived in November 1970, three LPs following in quick succession; Tarkus<\/em> (June 1971), Trilogy<\/em> (July 1972) and Brain Salad Surgery<\/em> (November 1973). The latter included the track \u2018Karn Evil 9\u2019, which Emerson co-wrote.<\/p>\n

The trio embarked on a brief hiatus to pursue solo projects, reuniting to issue Works Volume 1<\/em> (March 1977) and Works Volume 2<\/em> (November 1977), the pair of LPs being followed by Love Beach<\/em> (November 1978) soon thereafter.<\/p>\n

Emerson, Lake & Palmer disbanded in 1979. In 1985, Emerson, Lake & Powell was formed with former Rainbow and Jeff Beck member Cozy Powell stepping behind the drumkit. A lone, self-titled studio affair emerged in June 1986. Emerson and Palmer would work together once again for the project 3 in 1988, Robert Berry taking the position of vocalist, guitarist and bassist.<\/p>\n

Emerson, Lake & Palmer reunited in 1991, with comeback record Black Moon emerging in June 1992. Ninth and final studio full-length In The Hot Seat<\/em> surfaced in September 1994. Emerson, Lake & Palmer split yet again in the late 90s, reuniting for one final tour in 2010 which culminated in a swansong performance at London\u2019s High Voltage festival in July 2010.<\/p>\n

In addition to working within the Emerson, Lake & Palmer fold, Emerson also cut both solo albums as well as film scores, scores which included Dario Argento-directed 1980 horror movie Inferno<\/em> and 1981 Sylvester Stallone-starring thriller Nighthawks<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Keyboardist Keith Emerson Dies Aged 71 March 11th, 2016 Keith Emerson, co-founding keyboardist of English progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer, passed away on March 11th, 2016 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 71. The Santa Monica Police Department revealed that Emerson had died from a self-inflicted gunshot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2815,3225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerson-lake-and-palmer-news","category-keith-emerson-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41703"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50617,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions\/50617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}