Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man download song

Keith in his Yamaha GX-1 , Carl's big ass drum kit, Greg rocking out an 8 string alembic bass, the recently opened but still incomplete Montreal Olympic Stadium, all on 16 mm film, this just screams 1977.

They should play this through every speaker in the country when we are allowed to throw our doors open and run to the pub!!

I was killing my big system the other night, easily pushing 200 watts, my neighbor from 1/4 mile away rolled into driveway, climbed out of his car and was smiling his ass off. We didn't talk until it was done, and then it was just " unbelievable ".

In all fairness, these lads knew what they were doing

I'm 73, only thing different is my mommy's not yelling at me when I blast this. (Elp dont wait on me, I'm not coming .

Love this - just my age & era, however strange to note that Noel & Liam Gallagher have looked quite like Keith Emerson here - hair especially….Perhaps a northern English thing!

Today it's the 70 th Birthday of Carl Palmer .

One of, if not THE greatest keyboard player in history

They had to be freezing their asses off, except for Carl who always worked so hard!

The real crime with these guys is that that 2 of them have already passed away before being inducted into the R&R HOF. The Hall has become a joke when groups like Kiss and Melissa Etheridge get in before Progressive rock bands such as ELP, the Moody Blues, Kansas and Jethro Tull. The enormous body of their work was incredible and the talent and creativity of these groups will never be appreciated now.

42 years later, this is still truly breathtaking

ELP and Rush had the same thing in common - they both sounded like six piece bands with only three musicians. Incredible!

ELP never got the credit it deserved from the rock press as they were usually dismissed as a Pink Floyd knock off or being too pretentious and serious. ELP was one of the most intelligent bands out there that could play classical, jazz, ragtime and progressive rock all mixed together into one incredible experience. They disappeared way too soon.

This was the theme song of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. The world was different then....musicianship still counted for something and Bruce Jenner won the decathalon as a man.

ELP. They were playing in a quarantine before it was cool.

Who else loves Carl Palmer's drumming ? I think he's one of the greatest to ever live !

This should be played all over the world for the people of the human race

BEST SOUNDCHECK OF ALL TIME!!!!!!

As far as I know, Aaron Copland, the original composer was still alive when this version was first perfomed. He didn't see it live but listened to it at one point. He basically said "well, I don't really get youth and their music nowadays but they seem to respect my music and they are cool, so it's fine."