From The New York Times:
Greg
Lake, of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Dies at 69
Greg Lake, a singer, guitarist and
songwriter who was a founding member of the 1970s progressive-rock bands King
Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, died on Wednesday in London. He was 69.
The
cause was cancer, his longtime manager, Stewart Young, wrote in a post on Mr.
Lake’s Facebook page. His death came nine months after Mr. Lake’s former
bandmate, Keith Emerson, committed
suicide.
Mr.
Lake was a seminal figure in the movement to Europeanize rock ’n’ roll by
blending it with classical music and presenting it with symphonic grandeur. “In
the Court of the Crimson King,” the first King Crimson album, has often been
cited as the first progressive rock album and the model for the others that
followed.
The
movement reached its swelling, grandiose climax in the work of Emerson, Lake
and Palmer, whose adaptations of classical compositions and lengthy tracks,
given operatic expression in lavish stage shows, epitomized the vaulting
ambition of a style that was vehemently repudiated with the rise of punk in the
late 1970s
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