GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN
Music can take the listener on emotional journeys, so I was delighted to see the article on my hero Keith Emerson in Prog 144. It was fascinating to see the 30 tracks chosen by fans, family and friends. There were no major surprises, but for me there were three significant absences from the list that, in my humble opinion, I would like to have seen included.
It is solely through ELP and The Nice that my interest in classical music was born and the album is one of my all-time favourites. Is there anything that screams prog as much as that opening suite, with the band playing alongside the orchestra, fusing classical, rock and jazz, to produce 20 minutes of epic, exhilarating music? And no ! With what was surely the first-ever recorded synthesiser solo, that introduced us mere mortals to the weird, wonderful, and unlimited sounds of the Moog, which Keith had been at the forefront [of] in its formative years.
