by Greg Lake
Towards the end, Greg asked Regina to get him some caviar. Not just any caviar . . . Beluga. The last solid thing he ate was a few spoons of Beluga.
Greg decided he had to get Gabriel a bicycle for Christmas. It couldn’t be just any bicycle . . . it had to be the best. On Greg’s last weekend, Regina brought a Christmas tree and Natasha brought Gabriel.
Greg told him he was good friends with Father Christmas and had spoken to him about a special present for Gabriel. Then Greg gave Gabriel the bike, a beautiful silver bike.
And Gabriel rode round and round and round . . .
Selected Discography
Greg Lake’s solo and group albums including both the studio and the principal live releases. (NB The list does not include the vast range of compilations, reissues, overseas-only releases, official bootlegs, unofficial bootlegs or singles.)
King Crimson
Studio:
In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’ (including ‘Mirrors’)
‘I Talk to the Wind’
‘Epitaph’ (including ‘March for No Reason’; ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow’)
‘Moonchild’ (including ‘The Dream’; ‘The Illusion’)
‘The Court of the Crimson King’ (including ‘The Return of the Fire Witch’; ‘The Dance of the Puppets’)
In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)
‘Peace – A Beginning’
‘Pictures of a City’ (including ‘42nd at Treadmill’)
‘Cadence and Cascade’
‘In the Wake of Poseidon’ (including ‘Libra’s Theme’)
‘Peace – A Theme’
‘Cat Food’
‘The Devil’s Triangle’ (including I ‘Merday Morn’; II ‘Hand of Sceiron’; III ‘Garden of Worm’)
‘Peace – An End’
Live:
Epitaph (recorded 1969; released 1997)
Maida Vale Studios, 6 May 1969:
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’
‘The Court of the Crimson King’
‘Get Thy Bearings’
‘Epitaph’
Fillmore East, 21 November 1969:
‘A Man, a City’
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’
‘The Court of the Crimson King’
Fillmore West, 14 December 1969:
‘Mantra’
‘Travel Weary Capricorn’
‘Improv – Travel Bleary Capricorn’
‘Mars’
Fillmore West, 15 December 1969:
‘The Court of the Crimson King’
‘Drop In’
‘A Man, a City’
‘Epitaph’
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’
‘Mars’
Ninth National Jazz and Blues Festival, 9 August 1969:
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’
‘Get Thy Bearings’
‘The Court of the Crimson King’
‘Mantra’
‘Travel Weary Capricorn’
‘Improv’ (including ‘By the Sleeping Lagoon’)
‘Mars’
Chesterfield Jazz Club, 7 September 1969:
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’
‘Drop In’
‘Epitaph’
‘Get Thy Bearings’
‘Mantra’
‘Travel Weary Capricorn’
‘Improv’
‘Mars’
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Studio:
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)
‘The Barbarian’
‘Take a Pebble’
‘Knife-Edge’
‘The Three Fates’ (including ‘Clotho’; ‘Lachesis’; ‘Atropos’)
‘Tank’
‘Lucky Man’
Tarkus (1971)
‘Tarkus’ (including ‘Eruption’; ‘Stones of Years’; ‘Iconoclast’; ‘Mass’; ‘Manticore’; ‘Battlefield’; ‘Aquatarkus’)
‘Jeremy Bender’
‘Bitches Crystal’
‘The Only Way (Hymn)’
‘Infinite Space (Conclusion)’
‘A Time and a Place’
‘Are You Ready Eddy?’
Trilogy (1972)
‘The Endless Enigma (Part One)’
‘Fugue’
‘The Endless Enigma (Part Two)’
‘From the Beginning’
‘The Sheriff’
‘Hoedown’
‘Trilogy’
‘Living Sin’
‘Abaddon’s Bolero’
Brain Salad Surgery (1973)
‘Jerusalem’
‘Toccata’
‘Still . . . You Turn Me On’
‘Benny the Bouncer’
‘Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression – Part 1’
‘Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression – Part 2’
‘Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression’
‘Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression’
Works Volume 1 (1977)
‘Piano Concerto No. 1’ (including ‘First Movement: Allegro Giojoso’; ‘Second Movement: Andante Molto Cantibile’; ‘Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco’)
‘Lend Your Love to Me Tonight’
‘C’est la Vie’
‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’
‘Nobody Loves You Like I Do’
‘Closer to Believing’
‘The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits’
‘L.A. Nights’
‘New Orleans’
‘Two Part Invention in D Minor’
‘Food for Your Soul’
‘Tank’
‘Fanfare for the Common Man’
‘Pirates’
Works Volume 2 (1977)
‘Tiger in a Spotlight’
‘When the Apple Blossoms Bloom in the Windmills of Your Mind I’ll Be Your Valentine’
‘Bullfrog’
‘Brain Salad Surgery’
‘Barrelhouse Shake-Down’
‘Watching Over You’
‘So Far to Fall’
‘Maple Leaf Rag’
‘I Believe in Father Christmas’
‘Close But Not Touching’
‘Honky Tonk Train Blues’
‘Show Me the Way to Go Home’
Love Beach (1978)
‘All I Want Is You’
‘Love Beach’
‘Taste of My Love’
‘The Gambler’
‘For You’
‘Canario’
‘Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman’ (including ‘Prologue/ The Education of a Gentleman’; ‘Love at First Sight’; ‘Letters from the Front’; ‘Honourable Company (A March)’)
Black Moon (1992)
‘Black Moon’
‘Paper Blood’
‘Affairs of the Heart’
‘Romeo and Juliet’
‘Farwell to Arms’
‘Changing States’
‘Burning Bridges’
‘Close to Home’
‘Better Days’
‘Footprints in the Snow’
In the Hot Seat (1994)
‘Hand of Truth’
‘Daddy’
‘One by One’
‘Heart on Ice’
‘Thin Line’
‘Man in the Long Coat’
‘Change’
‘Give Me a Reason to Stay’
‘Gone Too Soon’
‘Street War’
Live:
Pictures at an Exhibition (recorded at Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, 26 March 1971; released 1971)
‘Promenade’
‘The Gnome’
‘Promenade’
‘The Sage’
‘The Old Castle’
‘Blues Variation’
‘Promenade’
‘The Hut of Baba Yaga’
‘The Curse of Baba Yaga’
‘The Hut of Baba Yaga’
‘The Great Gates of Kiev’
‘Nutro
cker’
Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show that Never Ends – Ladies and Gentlemen (recorded at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, 10 February 1974; released 1974)
‘Hoedown’
‘Jerusalem’
‘Toccata’
‘Tarkus’ (including ‘Eruption’; ‘Stones of Years’; ‘Iconoclast’; ‘Mass’; ‘Manticore’; ‘Battlefield’ [including ‘Epitaph’]; ‘Aquatarkus’)
‘Take a Pebble’ (including ‘Still . . . You Turn Me On’; ‘Lucky Man’)
‘Piano Improvisations’ (including ‘Fugue’; ‘Little Rock Getaway’)
‘Take a Pebble (Conclusion)’
‘Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff’
‘Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression’
‘Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression’
‘Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression’
Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Concert (recorded at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, 26 August 1977; released 1979)
‘Introductory Fanfare’
‘Peter Gunn’
‘Tiger in a Spotlight’
‘C’est la Vie’
‘The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits’
‘Knife-Edge’
‘Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco’
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 3 October 1992; released 1993)
‘Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression – Part 2’
‘Tarkus’ (including ‘Eruption’; ‘Stones of Years’; ‘Iconoclast’)
‘Knife-Edge’
‘Paper Blood’
‘Romeo and Juliet’
‘Creole Dance’
‘Still . . . You Turn Me On’
‘Lucky Man’
‘Black Moon’
‘Pirates’
‘Finale (Medley)’ (including ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’; ‘America’; ‘Rondo’)
High Voltage (recorded at Victoria Park, London, 25 July 2010; released 2010)
‘Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression – Part 2’
‘The Barbarian’
‘Bitches Crystal’
‘Knife-Edge’
‘From the Beginning’
‘Touch and Go’
‘Take a Pebble/Tarkus’
‘Farwell to Arms’
‘Lucky Man’
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’
‘Fanfare for the Common Man/Drum Solo/Rondo’
Greg Lake
Studio:
Greg Lake (1981)
‘Nuclear Attack’
‘Love You Too Much’
‘It Hurts’
‘Black and Blue’
‘Retribution Drive’
‘Long Goodbye’
‘The Lie’
‘Someone’
‘Let Me Love You Once Before You Go’
‘For Those Who Dare’
Manoeuvres (1983)
‘Manoeuvres’
‘Too Young to Love’
‘Paralysed’
‘A Woman Like You’
‘I Don’t Want to Lose Your Love Tonight’
‘It’s You, You’ve Gotta Believe’
‘Famous Last Words’
‘Slave to Love’
‘Haunted’
‘I Don’t Know Why I Still Love You’
Live:
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Greg Lake in Concert (recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, London, 5 November 1981; released 1995)
‘Fanfare for the Common Man’
‘Karn Evil 9’
‘Nuclear Attack’
‘The Lie’
‘Retribution Drive’
‘Lucky Man’
‘Parisienne Walkways’
‘You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me’
‘Love You Too Much’
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’
‘The Court of the Crimson King’
Greg Lake: Live (recorded 2005; released 2007)
‘The Court of the Crimson King’
‘Paper Blood’
‘From the Beginning’
‘Touch and Go’
‘Take a Pebble’
‘I Believe in Father Christmas’
‘Farewell to Arms’
‘Fanfare for the Common Man’
‘Love You Too Much’
‘Footprints in the Snow’
‘Lucky Man’
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’
‘Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression – Part 2’
Songs of a Lifetime (recorded 2012; released 2013)
‘21st Century Schizoid Man’
‘Lend Your Love to Me Tonight’
‘Songs of a Lifetime Tour Introduction’
‘From the Beginning’
‘Tribute to the King’
‘Heartbreak Hotel’
‘Epitaph/The Court of the Crimson King’
‘King Crimson Cover Story’
‘I Talk to the Wind’
‘Ringo and the Beatles’
‘You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away’
‘Touch and Go’
‘Trilogy’
‘Still . . . You Turn Me On’
‘Reflections of Paris’
‘C’est la Vie’
‘My Very First Guitar’
‘Lucky Man’
‘People Get Ready’
‘Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression – Part 2’
Asia
Live:
Ensŏ’ Kai (recorded at the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, 6 December 1983; released 2001)
‘The Heat Goes On’
‘Here Comes the Feeling’
‘Eye to Eye’
‘Only Time Will Tell’
‘Open Your Eyes’
‘Untitled’
‘The Smile Has Left Your Eyes’
‘Wildest Dreams’
‘Heat of the Moment’
‘Sole Survivor’
Emerson, Lake & Powell
Studio:
Emerson, Lake & Powell (1986)
‘The Score’
‘Learning to Fly’
‘The Miracle’
‘Touch and Go’
‘Love Blind’
‘Step Aside’
‘Lay Down Your Guns’
‘Mars, the Bringer of War’
Live:
Emerson, Lake & Powell Live in Concert and More . . . (recorded 1986; released 2012)
Live in Concert, Lakeland, Florida, November 1986:
‘The Score’
‘Touch and Go’
‘Knife-Edge’
‘Pirates’
‘From the Beginning’
‘Lucky Man’
‘Fanfare for the Common Man’
‘Mars, the Bringer of War/Drum Solo’
‘Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression/America/Rondo’
The Sprocket Sessions, rehearsals, 1986:
‘The Score’
‘Learning to Fly’
‘The Miracle’
‘Knife-Edge’
‘Tarkus’
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’
‘Lucky Man (Excerpt)’
‘Still . . . You Turn Me On’
‘Love Blind’
‘Mars, the Bringer of War’
‘Touch and Go’
‘Pirates’
Greg Lake & Geoff Downes
Studio:
Ride the Tiger (recorded 1988; released 2015)
‘Money Talks’
‘Love Under Fire’
‘Affairs of the Heart’
‘Street Wars’
‘Check It Out’
‘Blue Light’
‘Love Under Fire’ (alt. mix)
Ringo Starr and His New All-Starr Band
Live:
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Ringo Starr and His New All-Starr Band (recorded Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont, IL, 22 Augus
t 2001; released 2002)
‘Photograph’
‘Act Naturally’
‘Logical Song’
‘No One Is to Blame’
‘Yellow Submarine’
‘Give a Little Bit’
‘You’re Sixteen’
‘The No-No Song’
‘Back Off Boogaloo’
‘Glamorous Life’
‘I Wanna Be Your Man’
‘Lucky Man’
‘Take the Long Way Home’
‘All the Young Dudes’
‘Don’t Go Where the Road Don’t Go’
‘With a Little Help from My Friends’
Keith Emerson & Greg Lake
Live:
Live from Manticore Hall (recorded 2010; released 2014)
‘From the Beginning’
‘Introduction’
‘I Talk to the Wind’
‘Bitches Crystal’
‘The Barbarian’
‘Take a Pebble’
‘Tarkus’
‘C’est la Vie’
‘Pirates’
‘Moog Solo/Lucky Man’
With my mother, Pearl.
Me aged six.
My grandfather Bruno Parsons who rode in the Grand National and, on one occasion, was asked by Winston Churchill to referee his polo match!
Me aged eleven.
My school report from 1956, when I was given an ‘average’ in Music. I was later told by the careers master that playing the guitar was not a job and that I would end up on the scrap heap.
Don Strike’s shop. Don was my guitar teacher for two and a half years and a major influence on my career. He also taught my friend Robert Fripp.
When I was in Unit 4, we used to travel around in a converted ambulance which was useful for traffic jams as it still had the emergency bell.
With my Shame bandmates. (left to right) Me, Jon Petterssen, Billy Nims and Malcolm Brasher.
Me with Hank B. Marvin. From the moment I first heard ‘Apache’, Hank was one of my greatest inspirations and it was Hank who ignited my vision of becoming a professional musician.
Me with Robert Fripp, who asked me to be lead singer and bass guitarist in his new band, King Crimson. (© LFI/Photoshot)
ELP with Miles Davis. (© Neil Preston)