Greg Lake
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Biography
[Edit]As a singer and instrumentalist, Greg Lake had his greatest success and influence in the progressive rock outfit Emerson, Lake & Palmer and, before that, as a founding member of the original King Crimson. He has also been reasonably popular as a solo artist working in more of a hard rock idiom. As a boy, growing up in a poverty stricken part of the seaside resort town of Bournemouth, he got his first guitar for his 12th birthday, as a gift from his mother, and began taking lessons from a local teacher named Don Strike, one of whose other students was Robert Fripp, who became close friends with Lake. Around the time he was 12 years old, Lake also wrote a folk-style song that played a major part in his future, entitled "Lucky Man."
Lake learned to read music and also to play pieces by Paganini, among other classical composers, but his aspirations lay with emulating the sound of his favorite band of the era, Cliff Richard & the Shadows, and their lead guitarist, Hank B. Marvin. Lake passed through a succession of groups, including a local quartet called Unit Four, in which he played guitar and sang. He and Unit Four guitarist David Genes later formed the Time Checks, and, still later — around 1967 — with another Unit Four member, John Dickinson, was a member of a band called the Shame, who cut a single in 1968. He also sang on a record by a band called the Shy Limbs. In 1968, Lake succeeded Mick Taylor as a member of an outfit called the Gods, whose other members included future Uriah Heep founders Ken Hensley (keyboards, vocals) and Lee Kerslake (drums), and it was there that his songwriting first blossomed. He left the Gods just before they began to record, having been approached by his boyhood friend Robert Fripp to join the outfit that he was putting together out of a failed trio called Giles, Giles & Fripp — Lake joined the quintet (Fripp on lead guitar; Ian McDonald on keyboards, saxes, and flute; Michael Giles on drums; and Peter Sinfield as lyricist) as lead singer and bassist.
King Crimson proceeded to carve out a name for themselves unique in the history of rock music as the leading progressive rock band of their era. Their first album, In the Court of the Crimson King, became the standard for serious progressive rock albums. Lake, along with the others, was suddenly a star. That first lineup of the band only lasted a year — by December of 1969, Giles and McDonald were tired of touring and opted out, and Lake refused to continue working with the group, although he stayed around long enough to sing on the second King Crimson album, In the Wake of Poseidon (1970).
At the suggestion of Tony Stratton-Smith, Lake was approached by keyboard player Keith Emerson, who was in the process of putting together a new group after three years with his current band, the Nice. The latter group's main fault was its lack of a real lead singer, and Emerson saw in Lake — whose voice had dominated In the Court of the Crimson King — the solution to that problem. The two eventually recruited drummer Carl Palmer and formed progressive rock's first supergroup, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, who were a success from their self-titled first album, released in 1970, which closed with Lake's old song "Lucky Man." The latter became one of the group's few successful singles, one of their rare attempts to compete on AM radio — it also turned Lake into one of the most familiar voices in progressive rock, rivaling such figures as the Moody Blues' Justin Hayward. Lake's production experience as a member of King Crimson (who had produced their own debut album) also served ELP in good stead, and his songwriting became the creative nucleus for the group's first three studio albums.
ELP dominated the charts and the field of progressive rock right up until 1977, by which time the entire genre of "art rock" was beginning to lose popularity. The stresses between the trio members caused them to split up after a tour in 1979, and Lake embarked on a solo career. Lake organized a new band with ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore on lead guitar, Rory Gallagher alumnus Ted McKenna on drums, and ex-Joe Cocker/Gerry Rafferty keyboard player Tommy Eyre, and recorded Lake's first solo album, Greg Lake (1981). The sound on that record was very different from ELP, as it was dominated by guitars, rather than keyboards, and featured Lake singing in a harder, more aggressive style. On tour he covered material going back to the King Crimson days, but he also regaled audiences with pumping versions of the new songs. A second album, Manoeuvres, followed in 1983, but by that time the creative and commercial bloom was off the rose, and Lake took his first break from music. He appeared in 1985 as the lead singer of Asia during that group's tour, but he didn't remain with the band.
In 1986, he re-teamed with Emerson and drummer Cozy Powell as Emerson, Lake & Powell, and recorded an album for Mercury Records, which was followed by a world tour. After a stint with ex-Asia member Geoff Downes and King Crimson drummer Michael Giles in a group called Ride the Tiger, Lake re-teamed with Emerson and Palmer for a film that was never finished, which led to their first new album in 13 years, Black Moon (1992). During the mid- and late '90s, Lake continued to work with Emerson and Palmer, while pursuing his solo work as well. The latter included a 1994 tour of the United States. He had also done a considerable amount of charitable work on behalf of missing children, and his song "Daddy," written in response to one such case, which ended tragically, achieved national exposure as a theme for a television series devoted to the plight of missing children.
Title: King Biscuit Flower Hour: Greg Lake In Concert
Artist: Greg Lake
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock
Title: Greg Lake In Concert / Together
Artist: Greg Lake, Gary Moore
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal
Title: The Anthology: A Musical Journey
Artist: Greg Lake
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal
Title: Sierra Mist (feat. MarzBoyGenius) - Single
Artist: Greg Lake
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Collections
Title: Christmas All Over the World, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: The 50 Best Christmas Songs Ever
Genre:
Title: A Vampires Jukebox (Christmas Edition)
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: A Salute to King Crimson
Title: From The Beginning - The Greg Lake Retrospective
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock
Title: Christmas Hits: 50 Festive Favourites (Disc 1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Now That'S What I Call Christmas CD 1
Genre: Pop
Title: 50 Festive Favourites (CD1)
Genre: Pop, Traditional Pop Music
Title: The Ultimate Christmas Album, Vol 6
Genre: Pop, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Another Rock'N'Roll Christmas
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: 100% Christmas
Genre: Electronica, Disco, Pop, Pop Rock, Contemporary Folk
Title: Kuschelrock Christmas (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: The No. 1 Christmas Album (CD2)
Genre: New Age, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Now Christmas 2012
Genre: Dancefloor, World Music, Pop, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Christmas - Hits 60 Festive Favourite
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: Simply The Best Christmas (CD1)
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: Diamonds Of Rock And Pop Music
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock
Title: NOW That's What I Call Christmas 2013 (CD1)
Genre: Pop, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Top 200 Christmas Songs Of All Time (CD3)
Genre: New Age, Jazz, Rock, Club/Dance, Country, Pop, Pop Rock, Traditional Pop Music, Theatre/Soundtrack, Celtic
Title: Now The Christmas Album 2000 (CD2)
Genre: Pop, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Classic Rock # 001: Classic Cuts No. 1
Genre: Rock
Title: KuschelRock Christmas 2015 (CD2)
Genre: Pop Rock, Traditional Pop Music
Title: The Best Days Of Christmas (CD1)
Genre: Gospel, Vocal Jazz, Country
Title: The Many Faces Of King Crimson (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal
Title: The Best Christmas Album 2017
Genre: Pop
Title: DMC Djs Guide To Christmas & New Year (CD1)
Genre: New Wave, Byzantine/Relegious, Country, Indie, Classical
Title: Dad Rock Collection Vol. 1
Title: Christmas Hits The Ultimate Collection (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Featuring albums
Title: A Classic Rock Christmas
Artist: Various
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, Heavy Metal, Pop, Pop Rock, Traditional Pop Music
Title: A Mojo Anthology: Rare, Classic, Unusual And Live 2019
Artist: King Crimson
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock
Title: The Elements 2020 Tour Box (CD1)
Artist: King Crimson
Genre: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal