52yrs ago This Date in Rock Music History: ✨️EMERSON LAKE & PALMER✨️ Trilogy third studio album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer Released 23 June 1972 The group had spent most of 1971 touring, and paused in September so they could record a new album at Advision Studios with Eddy Offord resuming his role as engineer. It would be his last with the group, as he later elected to work full-time with Yes. The album features "Hoedown" an arrangement of Aaron Copland's ballet composition which became a live favourite. ✨️Charts✨️ No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart No. 5 on the US Billboard 200 No. 2 UK Albums chart ✨️From the Beginning✨️ was released as second single in August 1972 and became the band's highest charting US single No. 39 Billboard Hot 100 Greg Lake's beautiful acoustic number that showed his acoustic guitar skills were right up there with his bass talents. >> A heartfelt song of devotion Lake claims that the inspiration for the song has left his memory. Says Lake: "Very often lyrics simply come about simply because of the way one feels at a moment in time. There is no earth moving moment of divine inspiration or grand plan and I'm sure that was the case with this song. Although very young at the time I sometimes had moments of reflection and maybe also perhaps a feeling that I could be a better person, I think this was just one of those." ✨️Recording✨️ In September 1971 the band took a break in their tour promoting Tarkus (1971) and Pictures at an Exhibition (1971) to start work on a new studio album. They returned to Advision Studios in London, once again with Lake as producer and Eddy Offord as their engineer. In early 1972 New Musical Express falsely reported that the group were splitting up, causing the band to issue a statement. Keith Emerson had planned to do a solo album of jazz music, but the project was shelved and the band turned down a lucrative offer to write the score to a racing film entitled Fangio. The band recorded the album in October–November 1971 and January 1972. The album was particularly difficult for Lake to record, as he described the album as "such an accurate record." Palmer noted Trilogy had the most number of overdubs put down on an Emerson, Lake & Palmer album, owing to the "enormous detail" put into the arrangements of the songs Emerson was pleased with the album after it was completed noting its varied arrangements and difference in style compared to Tarkus. Greg Lake also later identified it as his favorite ELP album. However, the extensive use of overdubs on 24-track machines meant that many pieces including "The Endless Engima", "Trilogy" and "Abaddon's Bolero" proved difficult to play live and were consequently dropped from live performance early in the accompanying tour. As a result the band vowed that their next album would be one they could reproduce entirely on stage. ✨️Cover✨️ The artwork was designed by Hipgnosis. It depicts a combined bust of the three members, while the interior of the original gatefold sleeve features a photomontage of the three in Epping Forest.Spanish artist Salvador Dalí was approached to design it, but he requested $50,000 to do it and was subsequently turned down. The front cover depicts each of the band members' faces; Emerson said this was because their previous albums had not featured them. ✨️Live at the Royal Albert Hall✨️ during the Black Moon tour Black Moon eighth studio album first in fourteen years Recorded October 2–3, 1992 their first concert appearances in their native England since 1974 The concert was broadcast live on BBC Radio One, and the band was introduced on stage by DJ Alan "Fluff" Freeman @♬♩⋆☮❥✿˖⋆𝑚ₐ𝑚ₐ♡ᵣₒ𝑐ⲕ𝑠₁₃⋆⚸♫·♪ @♬♩⋆☮❥✿˖⋆𝑚ₐ𝑚ₐ♡ᵣₒ𝑐ⲕ𝑠₁₃⋆⚸♫·♪ @♬♩⋆☮❥✿˖⋆𝑚ₐ𝑚ₐ♡ᵣₒ𝑐ⲕ𝑠₁₃⋆⚸♫·♪ 🔺️MORE FROM RAH🔺️ #emersonlakepalmer #70sthrowbacksongs #70soldiessongs #livemusic #ifonlyfor59seconds #rockmusiktiktok - @mama.rocks.13