, Lake and Palmer, died Thursday, March 10, 2016, at home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 71.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Keith Emerson, architect and keyboardist of the progressive-rock bandage Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died. He was 71.
Emerson's longtime partner, Mari Kawaguchi, alleged badge to his abode in Santa Monica, California, at about 1:30 a.m. on Friday.
Emerson had an credible self-inflicted gunshot anguish to the head, and authorities are investigating his afterlife as a accessible suicide. Kawaguchi told badge that Emerson could accept died anywhere amid Thursday black and Friday morning.
Emerson, bagman Carl Palmer and vocalist/guitarist Greg Lake were giants of accelerating bedrock in the 1970s, recording six platinum-selling albums. They and added hit groups such as Pink Floyd, the Moody Dejection and Genesis stepped abroad from rock's accent on abbreviate songs with ball beats, instead creating albums with adorned pieces abounding of complicated rhythms, intricate chords and time signature changes. The orchestrations drew on classical and applesauce styles and sometimes conjugal acceptable bedrock instruments with abounding orchestras.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 1973 anthology "Brain Salad Surgery" included a about 30-minute agreement alleged "Karn Evil 9" that featured a Moog synthesizer and the eerie, carnival-like lyric: "Welcome aback my friends, to the appearance that never ends."
A agreeable prodigy, Emerson was built-in in Todmorden, Yorkshire in England. By his backward teens, he was arena in dejection and applesauce clubs in London. He helped anatomy one of the aboriginal accelerating bedrock groups, the Nice, afore hooking up with Lake and Palmer in 1970 and debuting with them at the Isle of Wight Festival, shows that aswell featured Jimi Hendrix and the Who.
Although it abounding stadiums, ELP aswell was ridiculed as the apotheosis of the affectedness and corruption that bedrock allegedly stood against. If the jailbait movement took off in the mid-'70s, the bandage was a appropriate target, aboveboard abominable by the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten a part of others.
Years later, Rotten (then calling himself John London) and Emerson became friends, Lyndon told News of the Apple in 2007.
"He's a abundant bloke," Lydon said. "I've told Keith in no ambiguous agreement that what put me off his bandage were those 20-minute agency solos and that blur of their accompany of trucks bridge America."
ELP bankrupt up in 1979, reunited in 1991, after disbanded afresh and reunited one endure time for a 2010 tour.
Throughout, Emerson connected to compose and perform, sometimes abandoned and added times with assorted musicians, including Lake.
Palmer said in a account that Emerson "was a avant-garde and an innovator whose agreeable ability affected all of us in the worlds of rock, classical and jazz."
Steve Hackett, who was Genesis' advance guitarist from 1970 to 1977, alleged Emerson a "great showman."
"A lot of pop stars are there because they've got abundant hairstyles or could ball wonderfully," he said. "But he was, aloft all, a absurd musician, arranger and writer."
Despite his influence, Emerson never advised himself a bedrock or pop figure and his accurate agreeable adherence lay elsewhere.
"At home, he listened to either classical or jazz. We never listened to rock," Kawaguchi said.
"He hated getting alleged bedrock brilliant or prog-rock star...he capital to be accepted as composer," she said. "He never succumbed to getting commercially successful. He had no interest. He consistently said: 'I'm not a bedrock star. I've never been a bedrock star. All I wish is to play music.'"
Kawaguchi said Emerson was able to compose after any instrument.
"He was just natural. The music was consistently in his head, always," she said. "Even if he was sleeping, you know, I could acquaint he was consistently cerebration about music. Sometimes he would deathwatch up and compose music. And it was all so, so beautiful."
Emerson had been basic and alive with internationally accepted symphonies, including two in Germany and Japan, and was about to commence on a abbreviate bout in Japan starting on April 14 with his band, Kawaguchi said. His plan included a classical piano concerto.
"All these humans from the classical apple were arena his music," she said. "When he was young, he was application classical music for bedrock and now the caster has angry and now the classical apple is application his compositions."
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