Today in Rock history: Emerson, Lake & Palmer formally announce their break-up. Their last studio album of the 1970s, Love Beach (1978), was dismissed even by the trio itself, who admitted it was delivered to fulfil a contractual obligation.[24] Love Beach was poorly received by the music press. Side One features Lake and consists of several shorter songs in an attempt to put something in the pop charts. The last cut on Side One, Canario, is an instrumental based on Fantasía para un gentilhombre by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. Side Twos composition, Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman, is a four-part narration of the tale of a soldier in the Second World War. The albums cover photograph – which showed the three band members posing with their shirts unbuttoned, on a tropical beach – engendered no small amount of ridicule, with Palmer complaining the group looked like disco stars the Bee Gees. Emerson, Lake & Palmer disbanded later in 1979. The live LP In Concert was released after they had broken up, also to fulfil contractual obligations. It was cobbled together from the ill-fated orchestral tour, and was later rebranded Works Live. (1979) ~Wikipedia youtu.be/If2akTqCML4?list=RDIf2akTqCML4
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