“I WAS IN the bandwagon, I think, and King Crimson’s Cat Food was playing,” says Keith Emerson, “And I turned to my tour manager, and said, Who is that? And he said, That’s King Crimson, and I said, No, the singer, and he said, That’s Greg Lake, and I said, Does he play anything? and he said, Bass guitar and guitar as well, and I remember going, Ooh, that’s interesting!” he chuckles, “He was good, you know, and The Nice had gradually come to its fullest conclusion and I realised that I was ready to write and go in a different direction – and then I heard Greg singing.”
Keith is standing outside an aircraft hangar in Santa Monica. The aforementioned Greg Lake’s inside singing Lucky Man to himself and…
