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In 2017, the long-awaited autobiography of singer/bassist/composer/producer Greg Lake was finally released. Unfortunately, too late for the protagonist to experience himself: “Gregory Stuart Lake died of cancer on Wednesday December 7, 2016 at the age of 69, a few months before the release of his biography.” I myself was able to write an obituary about the man, who was so important in the creation and popularisation of two legendary bands: King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
Lake tells his story in a polite, typically English way, and as much as possible without harming others or shocking people. It is the famous story of a young man who is completely under the spell of music and does not seem suitable for anything else. Fortunately, he can earn a living with his music and more than that, he is destined to play a role in musical history. Strangely enough, he skips through his childhood quite quickly, the usual school bands and the tough learning curve of touring get a bit more attention. In that sense there is not much difference from other rock biographies.
It starts to get more interesting when the creation of King Crimson, with his good friend and fellow guitar-school student Robert Fripp, is discussed. And then, of course, the founding of ELP
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by Rick Krueger
“ELP were often criticized for running an overblown or overproduced show … The Persian carpets are useful because they cover the crisscross of wires over the stage, reduce slippage, absorb some of the noise so you can hear each other play and — this is the prima donna part — they make you feel more comfortable and at home on stage.” (Emphasis mine.)
This quote, from page 160 of Lucky Man, was when I finally understood Greg Lake. In books like Keith Emerson’s memoir Pictures of an Exhibitionist and David Weigel’s The Show That Never Ends, heusually comes off as pretentious, petulant, demanding and unsatisfied, the irrational antagonist to Emerson’s grand designs. After Lake’s passing in late 2016, Sid Smith’s lovely obituary in Prog Magazine humanized him for me, and Lucky Man — while not a tell-all book like Emerson’s — completes the process. Underneath the aura of entitled celebrity Lake projected, the man got the cosmic joke. He realized he was living the dream, he felt he’d worked hard to get there — but also that hard work wasn’t the whole story. So he figured he might as well live the dream in high style.
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