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Greg Lake‘s evergreen Christmas classic I Believe In Father Christmas is due to be re-released for Christmas 2020 thanks to the restoration of the original video to 4K. You can watch the brand new video in full below.
The song features on the recently released The Anthology – A Musical Journey which features music from Emerson Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Lake’s solo career, 1967’s Don’t Go ‘Way Little Girl, recorded with The Shame and 1969 psych rarity Love recorded with The Shy Limbs.
Despite it’s strong anti-commercial message I Believe In Father Christmas remains a warm, catchy and enduringly popular Christmas song. The single was originally a hit worldwide in 1975, reaching Number 2 in the UK charts and selling over 13,000 copies in two days only to be kept from the UK number one slot by Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
Greg, who died on 7th December 2016, aged 69, co-wrote the single with Pete Sinfield. ELP’s keyboardist Keith Emerson had encouraged each member of the band to come up with solo material, so in 1975 Lake teamed up with lyricist Sinfield to create something out of a “Christmassy” chord sequence Lake had written.
The result was thoughtful, but melodic too: a humanist, Christmas song that also manages to warm the cockles. By adding a snippet of twinkling sleigh-ride music by classical composer Sergei Prokofiev at Keith Emerson’s suggestion, summoning the sparkle of Christmas, creating, as Sinfield has said, “a picture-postcard Christmas, with morbid edges.”
This new 4K version of the original promo video has been painstakingly and expertly restored from a recently discovered rare copy of the original film for I Believe In Father Christmas which was shot partly on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt and in the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The video includes previously unseen footage from the Vietnam War and was directed by Arnould Schwartzman who went on to win an Oscar in 1982 for his film Genocide.
The new video restoration included manually cleaning the film to remove the sticky residue from the sellotape joins to allow it to pass freely through the scanner, rebuilding the cuts to remove the jumps, recreating damaged frames based on those surrounding it, frame by frame dirt and scratch clean and eve repainting in camel legs!
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EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Works Volume 1 (Original 1977 US 14-track Atlantic label vinyl double LP with a side devoted to every member plus a side for the whole band, housed in a great embossed tri-fold picture sleeve. The sleeve has some light ringwear and scuffs but the vinyl looks barely played SD2-7000)
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EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Brain Salad Surgery (1973 UK 8-track LP, housed in a superb fold-out/die-cut H.R. Giger designed sleeve with US company catalogue inner & UK fold-out/die-cut lyric insert. This copy has picture labels & US pressed vinyl with 'MC66669' number printed on the labels. The packaging is Very Good with some scuffs & ringwear to the back and front. There is some creasing but otherwise the sleeve remains in Very Good Condition. & the vinyl is Excellent with a few cosmetic marks to show play. Overall a very respectable copy K53501)
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GREG LAKE Greg Lake (1981 UK 10-track vinyl LP featuring the talents of Bruce Springsteen's sax player, the late Clarence Clemmons, plus Gary Moore on guitar, Tommy Eyre on keyboards, Tristram Margetts on bass and ex-SAHB Ted McKenna on drums,glossy picture sleeve with lyric inner. This example is still sealed and unplayed CHR1357)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 23-Feb-2024 09:39)on April 19, 2024 at 5:12 am
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Tarkus (1973 UK second issue of the 1971 12-track LP on the Manticore label, the prog trio's No. 1 album engineered by Eddie Offord, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows light ringwear whilst the vinyl shows a few light signs of play K43504)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer - Welcome Back - 2nd - UK - 3-LP vinyl set - £20.00, $25.00, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 23-Feb-2024 12:14)on April 19, 2024 at 5:12 am
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Welcome Back (1974 UK 11-track triple LP with the prog trio recorded live on their 1973/74 World tour, superb fold-out 'ELP' glossy picture sleeve. This is a one owner example - the sleeve shows minimal signs of its age &the vinyl appears barely played K63500)
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