I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.

Also the evocative lyrics and acerbic vocals of various songs from Side B of Tarkus (particularly Bitches Crystal and A Time and a Place) have been acclaimed by fans. This album was the most refined of ELP's work combining signature classical pieces (Hoedown and Abaddon's Bolero) with multi-part progressive tracks (such as The Endless Enigma) and shorter more accessible songs (such as Living Sin). Their second studio album Tarkus had a side-long epic on Side A and Side B combined a series of hard rock songs an instrumental and a couple of comic songs.

Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake (born 10 November 1947) is an English musician songwriter and producer best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson and the bassist guitarist vocalist and lyricist of Emerson Lake & Palmer.