Trilogy by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Trilogy, the third album from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, came out on Island in 1972, and it catches the prog supergroup in rare balance, Keith Emerson's keyboard pyrotechnics and Carl Palmer's drums leaving room for Greg Lake's gentler side. After spending most of 1971 on the road, the trio broke off that September to make it at Advision Studios, Lake producing and Eddy Offord back at the engineering desk for what proved to be his final job with them before he went to work full-time with Yes.

The showpiece is "Hoedown", their charge through Aaron Copland's ballet music, which became a fixture of the live show. The sleeper is "From the Beginning", Lake's acoustic tune, which gave the band its highest-charting US single. The album climbed to number two in Britain and number 5 in America, and Lake later picked it as his favorite ELP record.

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