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Friday, January 6, 2017

Music Deaths: Greg Lake

GREG LAKE, 69.  Died December 7, 2016.

Guitarist with King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.  Helped form King Crimson whose biggest hit was their album Court of the Crimson King.  left after their second album.

Approached by Keith Emerson to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer along with Carl Palmer.  They were primarily album-oriented.  Two of their biggest were  Pictures on Exhibition and Brain Salad Surgery.

They charted four times with singles and two biggest, and one of my all-time favorites "Lucky Man" (#48 in 1971, #51-1972) and "From the Beginning" (#39-1972).

He produced most of their material and also had a solo hit with "I Believe in Father Christmas."

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