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Released
  
17 September 2007

Artist
  
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Label
  
Castle Music

From the Beginning (2007)
  
Gold Edition (2007)

Release date
  
10 September 2007

From the Beginning (box set) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumb9

Length
  
CD: 390:26 DVD: approx. 53 minutes

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Symphonic rock

Producers
  
Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer

Similar
  
Trilogy, Pictures at an Exhibition, Black Moon, Emerson - Lake & Palmer, Tarkus

From the Beginning is a box set which presents aural and visual documentation celebrating Emerson, Lake & Palmer's career; consisting of five discs that include a number of single b-sides, significant live recordings, alternative studio mixes and material taken from band rehearsals, plus a bonus DVD featuring 'The Manticore Years' documentary, presented in a deluxe book-style sleeve complete with a 60-page picture booklet containing extensive sleeve notes by the band discussing the ELP years. It also contains rare and previously unseen photographs and images.

Contents

Disc one

  1. "Decline and Fall" – Atomic Rooster (Vincent Crane, Carl Palmer, Nick Graham) – 5:47
  2. "Fantasia: Intermezzo Karelia Suite" – The Nice (Jean Sibelius, arr. by Keith Emerson, Joseph Eger) – 8:51
  3. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 4:38
  4. "Tank" (Emerson, Palmer) – 6:48
  5. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 12:28
  6. "The Barbarian" (Live version) (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Béla Bartók) – 5:20
  7. "Knife-Edge" (Live version) (Emerson, Lake, Leoš Janáček) – 8:01
  8. "Rondo" (Live version) (Dave Brubeck, arr. by Emerson) – 18:18

Disc two

  1. "Tarkus" – 20:40
  2. "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson) – 3:54
  3. "A Time and a Place" (B-side single version) (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 3:55
  4. "Oh, My Father" (Previously unreleased) (Lake) – 2:58
  5. "The Endless Enigma (Part One)" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:04
  6. "Fugue" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:54
  7. "The Endless Enigma (Part Two)" (Emerson, Lake) – 2:00
  8. "From the Beginning" (Lake) – 4:13
  9. "Trilogy" (Emerson, Lake) – 8:52
  10. "Abbadon's Bolero" (Emerson) – 8:07
  11. "Hoedown" (Live version) (Aaron Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 3:54
  12. "Jerusalem" (First mix) (Hubert Parry, William Blake, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 2:54
  13. "Still...You Turn Me On" (First mix) (Lake) – 2:51
  14. "When the Apple Blossoms" (B-side single version) (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 3:56

Disc three

  1. "Karn Evil 9" – 29:42
  2. "Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff" (Live) (Emerson, Lake) – 5:03
  3. "C'est la Vie (Early version)" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:16
  4. "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Early version) (Lake, Sinfield, Sergei Prokofiev) – 3:29
  5. "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Prokofiev, arr. by Palmer) – 3:20
  6. "Piano Concerto No.1" (Emerson) – 18:25
    1. First Movement: "Allegro Giocoso"
    2. Second Movement: "Andante Molto Cantabile"
    3. Third Movement: "Toccata Con Fuoco"
  7. "Pirates (Non-orchestral live version)" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 13:23

Disc four

  1. "Aaron Copland Interview 1977" (From Keith Emerson's archives) – 1:37
  2. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 9:42
  3. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Lewis) – 3:09
  4. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield) – 4:33
  5. "Watching Over You" (Lake/Sinfield) – 3:54
  6. "Introductory Fanfare/Peter Gunn Theme (Live version)" (Emerson, Henry Mancini) – 4:26
  7. "Canario (Rehearsal)" (Joaquín Rodrigo) – 3:57
  8. "Mars – The Bringer of War" (Gustav Holst, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Cozy Powell) – 7:54
  9. "Desede La Vida" (Emerson, Robert Berry, Palmer) – 7:06
    1. "Desede La Vida"
    2. "LaVista"
    3. "Sangre De Toro"
  10. "Black Moon (Single version)" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 4:47
  11. "Footprints in the Snow" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 3:51
  12. "Romeo and Juliet (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)" (Prokofiev, arr. by Emerson) – 3:32
  13. "Man in the Long Black Coat" (Bob Dylan, arr. by Emerson) – 4:12
  14. "Daddy" (Lake) – 4:42
  15. "Hang on to a Dream" (ELP cover of a song from The Nice) (Tim Hardin, Aber) – 4:28
  16. "Touch and Go" (Live in Poland) (Emerson, Lake) – 3:53

Disc five

(Live from the Mar y Sol Pop Festival, Manatí, Puerto Rico, 2 April 1972)

  1. "Hoedown" (Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 4:18
  2. "Tarkus" – 22:33
  3. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 4:36
  4. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 3:00
  5. "Piano Improvisation - 'Take a Pebble' conclusion" (Emerson) – 9:44
  6. "Pictures at an Exhibition" – 14:39
  7. "Rondo" (Brubeck, arr. by Emerson) – 18:29

Disc six

  • "The Manticore Special" – DVD containing highlights from the 1973 World Tour.
  • Written and directed by Nick Hague
  • Edited by Chris Fraser
  • Director of photography – John Rosenberg
  • Production manager – Peter Jaques
  • Sound recordist – Tony Jackson
  • Produced by Miker Rosenberg

    • Personnel

  • Keith Emerson – keyboards (Hammond Organ, Mini Moog, Moog Modular, Grand Piano, Upright Piano)
  • Greg Lake – guitars, bass guitar, vocals
  • Carl Palmer – drums, percussion

    • Songs

    Epitaph8:51
    Decline and Fall5:49
    Fantasia: Intermezzo Karelia Suite8:54

    References

    From the Beginning (box set) Wikipedia
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