Chords for Greg Lake, Legendary Pioneering Prog Rocker, Dead at 69: Full Report

_ _ _ _ _ [A] Greg Lake, legendary [Am] pioneering Prague rocker, is dead.
He was 69.
[Bm] I'm John Bowden from Rock
History Music.
What the heck is going on this year?
[E] Just [F] as his classic solo hit, I Believe
in Father Christmas, [F#] is starting to be added to [G] radio stations all over the world, we get
[Am] this sad news.
His manager, Stuart Young, said, Yesterday, the [E] 7th of December, [A] I lost
my best friend to a long [B] and stubborn battle with cancer.
Greg Lake will stay in my heart
[G] forever, as he [G] has always been.
His family would be grateful for privacy during this
[F] time of their grief.
Greg Lake was part of progressive rock [C] royalty.
He was a founding
member of two huge bands in the genre.
First, [F] King Crimson.
Robert Fripp picked him to be
the lead singer and [G] bass player for the band, even though up to that point, he'd played
six-string most of [F] his life.
Lake was on their first two albums, the classic In the
Court of [G] the Crimson King in [C] 1969 and 1970's In the Wake [F] of Poseidon.
Everything changed
when Lake and King Crimson were [G] touring with the band The Nice, which featured another
pioneering genius [F] in Prague rock, Keith Emerson, who, by the way, we lost as well.
In March
[C] of this year, he was 71.
The pair soon discovered how much they had in [F] common.
And by 1970,
with the help of Karl Palmer, they formed [G] Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
ELP were the quintessential [F] progressive symphonic art rock band, and they had huge success.
[C] From their self-titled debut in 1970, Prague fans were pleasantly [F] surprised at their ability
to reinvent classical pieces.
[Cm] The very first song on their very first album, the Bartok-inspired
The Barbarian, named after [G] Bartok's Allegro Barbaro, was an incredible [Cm] masterpiece.
Gordon
Fletcher of Rolling Stone Magazine talked about one of my favorite [G] albums from ELP,
Brain Salad Surgery.
He said, [Cm] the real meat on the platter is Carnival 9.
It's another
tour de force [A] from ELP.
Lake [G] called the tune Lucky Man a medieval [Cm] fantasy.
He actually
wrote the song when he was only 12, after his mother bought him a guitar.
In [G] 1975, there
was, of course, that big solo [Cm] song, I Believe in Father Christmas.
It reached number two
on the charts.
[G] In reality, it's an anti-commercial tune about the [Cm] exploitation of the holiday
season.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer broke up in 1979, [A] but there was a new [G] version coming out
shortly after that.
He formed the [Cm] new ELP in the mid-80s, Emerson, Lake & Powell, with
Cozy [A] Powell on drums, replacing [G] Palmer.
But then the original ELP got back [Cm] together in
1991, and a few times after that, off and on.
The [A] band, yes, tweeted, very sad to hear
of [G] the passing of our friend, legendary Greg Lake.
Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett
wrote, music bows its head to [Am] acknowledge the passing of a great musician and singer,
Greg Lake.
And then Rick [E] Wakeman, formerly of Yes and currently of [Bm] ARW, wrote, [Am] another
sad loss with the passing of Greg Lake.
You left some great [F#] music with us, my friend,
and so, [G] like Keith, you will live on.
When we lost Keith Emerson, we [Am] went on Facebook
and asked all the diehard Emerson, Lake & Palmer [E] fans to rate their 10 [Em] top songs from the
band.
[Am] And we came up with the top 10 Emerson, Lake & Palmer tunes.
We're going to have a
link [G] to that finished video with all the results at the end of this video [F] and also in the description
of this video as well.
[C] Greg Lake, may you rest in peace.
Man, this year's been nuts,
hasn't it?
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I'm John [F] Bowden from
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