Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures At An Exhibition (VG/VG+) – LP, UK 1971

Pictures At An Exhibition is an LP by Emerson, Lake & Palmer from 1971 released on the Island Records label.

About this album

Pictures At An Exhibition helped establish Emerson, Lake & Palmer as one of progressive rock’s most ambitious live acts. Issued in 1971, the album reimagines Modest Mussorgsky’s 1874 piano suite through extended keyboard fireworks, heavy guitars and Keith Emerson’s signature synthesiser drama, while also folding in the brief original piece Nutrocker. Recorded live in concert, it captured a band already confident enough to turn classical source material into a spectacle of rock improvisation and symphonic scale. The result became a landmark of early prog, showing how far the genre could stretch without losing its sense of showmanship or technical command.

Genre: Pop & Rock

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