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Tarkus is the second studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 4 June 1971 on Island Records.Following their debut tour across Europe during the second half of 1970, the group paused touring commitments in January 1971 to record a new album at Advision Studios in London.
"Tarkus" is the title track of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's second album. The progressive rock epic lasts 20:35. It was the longest studio suite by the band until the three impressions of "Karn Evil 9".
Lake wrote the song at his west London home, after tuning the bottom string of his guitar from E down to D. [5]The instrumental riff between verses comes from the "Troika" portion of Sergei Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé Suite, written for the 1934 Soviet film Lieutenant Kijé; [6] this was added at the suggestion of Keith Emerson (an adaptation of the same song was used on Emerson's later The ...
"Indian Lake" is a song with music and lyrics written by Tony Romeo. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was recorded by the pop band The Cowsills , and included on their 1968 album Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools (MGM E/SE-4554).
Emerson, Lake & Palmer is the debut studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was released in the United Kingdom by Island Records in November 1970, and in the United States by Cotillion Records in January 1971.
"Lucky Man" is a song by the English progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), from the group's 1970 self-titled debut album.Written by Greg Lake when he was 12 years old and recorded by the trio using improvised arrangements, [1] the song contains one of rock music's earliest instances of a Moog synthesizer solo.
Although the song stood out as an obvious single choice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer did not choose it for a single release. There were two reasons: that drummer Carl Palmer did not play on the song and also that it was the least representative of the album or the group's general sound. [3]
Lake is the first studio album by Lake, released in Germany in 1976 and the USA in 1977. The track "Time Bomb" was the band's highest charting single of their career. It reached #91 in Canada in December 1977.