Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)
Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It features the group's rock adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971.
Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)
Label of a German edition of Pictures at an Exhibition
Newcastle's City Hall
Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards) of the Nice, Greg Lake of King Crimson, and Carl Palmer of Atomic Rooster. With nine RIAA-certified gold record albums in the US, and an estimated 48 million records sold worldwide, they are one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock groups of the 1970s, with a musical sound including adaptations of classical music with jazz and symphonic rock elements, dominated by Emerson's flamboyant use of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and piano.
The band in Toronto, Canada in 1978
The group's second gig was at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival
Emerson performing in 1977
Palmer performing on the Works tour, in 1978