Elegy (The-Nice-Album)
Occupation
- Keith Emerson: keyboards
- Lee Jackson: vocals, electric bass
- Brian Davison: Drums
Elegy is the last regular album by English progressive rock group The Nice. It was 1971, a year after the dissolution of the group published.
The album
At the time of publication, the members of The Nice, had long since gone their own ways. Lee Jackson in Jackson Heights, Brian Davison Every Which Way and most successful Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Elegy contains four songs, all of which are cover versions or new arrangements. Two of them were 1969 recorded live at the Fillmore East in New York: Hang On to a Dream from the album The Nice and an instrumental version of America from the musical West Side Story. America was far only been released as a single. Tchaikovsky's Third Movement, Pathetique is already included on the previous album Five Bridges, but there with orchestral accompaniment. The only previously published title is the Bob Dylan Cover My Back Pages. Here Emerson begins at the piano and then switches to the Hammond organ.
The gatefold cover designed by Hipgnosis shows outside a sandy desert landscape with a chain of red balls, which extends on a dune in the distance. Inside you can see a rocky desert with mesas in the background. In the foreground are like the wind Gone with different Nice memorabilia, such as photos, album covers and newspaper clippings.
Reception
Although the band no longer existed for over a year, Elegy reached number 5 in the British album charts.
Bruce Eder of Allmusic called the album as one of Keith Emerson fans. On the live - recorded Hang On to a Dream he offers his best piano that has ever been published legally. Next, he emphasizes his organ playing and the verführischen arrangements of Tchaikovsky and Dylan covers. He gave the album four out of five stars.
Title list
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The CD release from 1990 also includes:
The CD release of 2010 includes the title of the LP and