Ahead of his upcoming ELP tribute shows, surviving Emerson, Lake & Palmer member Carl Palmer remembers his first meeting with the supremely talented Keith Emerson , and reflects on a long and extraordinarily creative career with the man he describes as “the best rock’n’roll keyboard player”.

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

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Beyond ELP, Keith Emerson enjoyed a varied career that found him touring as a solo artist and working in the classical area. Conductor Terje Mikkelsen , and bandmates Dave Kilminster , Marc Bonilla and Robert Berry continue our celebration and reflect on their time working alongside the great keyboardist.

Offstage, Keith Emerson was an unassuming introvert, but onstage, it was another matter. ELP's former manager Stewart Young, The V.I.P.'s drummer Mike Kellie and fellow Hammond aficionado Brian Auger shared their memories of the development of the keyboard player's stage persona that led to many regarding him as prog's ultimate showman.

The magic of Ritchie and Ronnie, spread across nine CDs.