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Greg Lake 1947-2016

  • 08-12-2016 2:43pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭


    I just heard the news that Greg Lake died yesterday, of cancer, at 69. This in the same year that we lost his friend and colleague Keith Emerson. (BBC) :(

    I don't like Christmas music at the best of times, and so I'm not happy that some folks in our office are playing it, but when I Believe In Father Christmas came on yesterday, I told those around me "that's the only Christmas song I like", because it speaks to the modern obsession with Christmas and the commercialism surrounding it. "The Christmas we get, we deserve."

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    RIP

    Aye one of the better songs!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    Always have "I Believe in Father Christmas" as number 1 on my favourite Christmas songs of all time.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,402 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.




    My favourite Christmas song!

    Sad news....R.I.P:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Another great showcase for Greg's voice was ELP's version of Jerusalem, which was banned by the BBC for being "disrespectful" to the song. To them it was nothing of the sort and was instead a celebration of their Englishness.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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