BBC PETITIONED FOR A KEITH EMERSON PROM

Fan group moves to have ELP keyboardist celebrated.

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An Emerson, Lake & Palmer fan group has petitioned the BBC to recognise the late Keith Emerson with his own prom celebrating the pioneering keyboardist’s creative and compositional achievements. The ELPAG (Emerson Lake & Palmer Appreciation Group) have been in discussion with the BBC Radio 3 and BBC Proms Controller Sam Jackson and Artistic Director Hannah Donat to try to persuade the BBC Proms to schedule an evening of the music of Keith Emerson and ELP next year in 2025. “The BBC Proms, with its tradition of celebrating rich and diverse musical heritages, is an ideal platform to honour the music of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer. It’s inarguably the perfect venue to pay homage to these iconic British musicians and powerfully decant their genre-defying works onto a…

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