Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition (1980) vinyl LP & MSFL LE
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Catalog Number: MFSL-1-031
CONDITION DETAILS MFSL Limited Edition, Pressed in Japan. Vinyl plays perfectly (play-graded in it's entirety). Gate-fold cover looks great; light-scuffing (front/back/inner-gate). MFSL insert/folder included. Inner sleeve is original (static-free). Spine is unbroken and easy-to-read, with mild-wear. Shelf-wear along the top and bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light-use. (This record is not a cut-out.)
ABOUT THE RECORD Pictures at an Exhibition, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released as a live album with versions of Modest Mussorgsky's classical piece Pictures at an Exhibition, charted at #10 on US Billboard 200. The original live album was recorded at Newcastle City Hall in North East England. The opening track of the album was played on a Harrison & Harrison pipe organ which was installed in the City Hall in 1928. The organ console is some way above stage level, at the top of a stepped terrace used for choral performances. The drum roll connecting the opening track to the next served to cover Emerson's dash back down to the stage. Being a live album, sometimes Keith Emerson's voltage-controlled Moog oscillators went out of tune, due to humidity and temperature. The original album cover, commissioned to William Neal who designed and painted every canvas, used a gatefold sleeve, depicting on the outside blank picture frames labelled with the titles of the pieces: The Old Castle, The Gnome, etc. The paintings were huge oil paintings full of ELP symbolism, like the Tarkus background in the Hut and the white dove embossed into the titanium white oil paint in Promenade (visible only on the original painting). On the inner sleeve, all of the paintings were revealed, but one remains blank: Promenade. The musical piece, of course, is not about a picture, but represents a walk through the gallery. All of the paintings were later hung at the Hammersmith Town Hall, London, and photographed by Keith Morris and Nigel Marlow, both former graduates from Guildford School of Art. The album reached #3 in the UK album chart in December 1971, only by virtue of the fact that budget-priced albums (of which Pictures at an Exhibition was one), were eligible for inclusion at that time. At the beginning of 1972 another change in the chart rules excluded them again, which meant that Pictures disappeared from the chart from #9 after a run of just 5 weeks. In the US Billboard album chart it peaked at #10 in early 1972.
TRACK LISTING Promenade The Gnome Promenade The Sage The Old Castle Blues Variation Promenade The Hut Of Baba Yaga The Curse Of Baba Yaga The Hut Of Baba Yaga The Great Gates Of Kiev The End/Nutrocker
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Keywords: music, album, vinyl, record, 1980s, 80s, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Pictures at an Exhibition, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Nutrocker, Modest Mussorgsky
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