That performance was impressive enough to prompt the Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun to offer the band a recording contract immediately afterwards.Ī live recording of Pictures at an Exhibition was released the following year, and took them to No 3 on the UK charts and No 10 in the US, following up their UK chart-topper Tarkus. When Emerson began picking out the notes of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, he was laying down a marker for the scope of the band’s great ambitions. ![]() The disc jockey John Peel decried ELP as “a tragic waste of talent and electricity”.ĮLP made an instant splash when they played their second gig at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970, complete with explosive blasts from a pair of antique cannons. They also became emblematic of an era of bombast, pulling huge crowds but also inviting ridicule. Playing at festivals and in football stadiums, ELP’s members dressed in extravagant costumes and equipped themselves with an articulated lorry each for their huge quantities of stage equipment.
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