Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Concert

Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert
Live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released	18 November 1979
Recorded	26 August 1977 Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada
Genre	Progressive rock, symphonic rock
Length	In Concert: 43:12 / Works Live: 1:27:39
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Keith Emerson
Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology
Love Beach (1978)Love Beach1978 In Concert (1979) Black Moon (1992)Black Moon1992

Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), recorded at 26 August 1977 show at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, which is featured on the album cover. It was released by Atlantic Records in November 1979, following ELP's breakup. It was later re-released and repackaged as Works Live in 1993. Some of the tracks were not from the Montreal concert, but from other concerts the 1977-1978 Tour, like "Peter Gunn" and "Tiger in a Spotlight".

Similar to most live albums, In Concert showcased fan favourites of previously released material. However, "Peter Gunn", ELP's take on the classic TV theme song, was never released on any of their other albums (a slightly edited version of this live recording was included on the 1980 The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer compilation and released as a single in some countries). ELP frequently opened with this song on the Works Volume 2 tour.

The band hired a 70-piece orchestra for some concerts of this tour but eventually had to dismiss the orchestra due to budget constraints that almost bankrupted the group. On the original release, the orchestra performs on "C'est la Vie", "Knife-Edge", on Keith Emerson's piano concerto, and on "Pictures at an Exhibition". Works Live adds other four songs performed with the orchestra: "Fanfare for the Common Man", "Abaddon's Bolero", "Closer to Believing" and "Tank".

Original releases of the album carried no producer credit, but production and mixing of the album were largely carried out by Keith Emerson. Emerson's vision was to release In Concert as a double LP, but ELP's label, Atlantic Records, would not allow this given the band's pending dissolution; the album's later repackaging as Works Live somewhat restores this intent.

Track listing

In Concert

• Side One

1. "Introductory Fanfare" (Emerson, Carl Palmer) – 0:53
2. "Peter Gunn" (Henry Mancini, arr. by Emerson, Greg Lake, Palmer) – 3:37
3. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Peter Sinfield) – 4:06
4. "C'est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:12
5. "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Sergei Prokofiev, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 2:49
6. "Knife-Edge" (Emerson, Richard Fraser, Leoš Janáček, Lake) – 5:14

• Side Two

1. "Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement: Toccata con fuoco" (Emerson) – 6:35
2. "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Emerson, Lake, Modest Mussorgsky, Palmer) – 15:43

The re-released and expanded CD "Works Live"

Works Live

• Disc One

1. "Introductory Fanfare" (Emerson, Palmer) – 0:52
2. "Peter Gunn" (Mancini) – 3:34
3. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield) – 4:08
4. "C'est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:14
5. "Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:59
6. "Maple Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) – 1:14
7. "The Enemy God Dances With the Black Spirits" (Prokofiev) – 2:46
8. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Aaron Copland) – 10:54
9. "Knife-Edge" (Emerson, Fraser, Janáček, Lake) – 5:03
10. "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly) – 4:20

• Disc Two

1. "Abaddon's Bolero" (Emerson) – 6:02
2. "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Emerson, Lake, Mussorgsky, Palmer, Fraser) – 15:40
3. "Closer to Believing" (Lake, Sinfield) – 5:28
4. "Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco" (Emerson) – 6:40
5. "Tank" (Emerson, Palmer) – 12:36

Personnel

Band members

• Keith Emerson – keyboards, mixing
• Greg Lake – vocals, bass, guitar
• Carl Palmer – drums, percussion
• A 70-piece orchestra on tracks 4, 6, 7 and 8 of In Concert, and tracks 4, 8, 9 of disc one and the entire disc two of Works Live.

Others

• Godfrey Salmon – conductor
• Michael Leveillee – sound engineer
• Neil Preston – inner sleeve photo
• Francois Rivard – cover photography
• Bob Defrin – art director

Release details

• 1979, UK, Atlantic/WEA K50652, Release date 17 November 1979, LP
• 1979, Japan, Atlantic/Warner-Pioneer P-10697A, Release date 21 November 1979, LP
• 1996, UK, Essential/Castle ESDCD362, Release date ? ? 1996, CD (double release called "Works Live")
• 1999, Japan, Manticore/Victor KVICP-60644, Release date ? ? 1999, CD

Singles

• Peter Gunn / Knife Edge
• Peter Gunn / Tiger in a spotlight (USA release)