Mishka Private Chat

Remembering Greg Lake, born on this day, November 10, 1947, in Poole, Dorset, England. He would have turned 79 today. Greg grew up in Poole and took guitar lessons as a boy alongside his friend Robert Fripp, studying with the same local teacher. Years later Fripp brought him into a new band called King Crimson, and Greg sang and played bass on their 1969 debut, In the Court of the Crimson King, one of the records that launched progressive rock. In 1970 he left to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer. Their very first album included "Lucky Man," a song Greg had written when he was 12, and its Moog solo became one of the most famous sounds of the decade. ELP filled arenas through the 70s, and Greg's voice was the calm center of all that firepower. We lost Greg on December 7, 2016, at 69, after a long illness. Keith Emerson had died earlier that same year. 🎸 Tell us your story: where were you the first time you heard Greg Lake sing "Lucky Man" or "From the Beginning"? 🎸