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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 - Trilogy - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.20, €18.15 (New Item) (arrived 11-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 12, 2024 at 1:30 am
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Trilogy (Mid to late 70s UK issue of the 1972 9-track LP, the band's third studio album, featuring the brilliant 'Hoedown', gatefold picture sleeve with a montage inside of the band in Epping Forest. The sleeve shows minor wear & the vinyl is in Excellent condition with few signs of play K43505)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £40.00, $51.20, €48.40 (Back In Stock) (arrived 07-Nov-2024 13:03)on December 12, 2024 at 1:30 am
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Tarkus (1971 UK first issue 13-track LP on the pink rim palm tree label, engineered by studio icon of the day Eddie Offord & featuring a seldom heard guitar solo by Greg Lake during Battlefield, heavy duty gatefold picture sleeve with fantastic William Neal artwork. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear with a bit of edge scuffing & the vinyl remains in superb condition with few signs of play ILPS9155)
- Greg Lake - The Anthology: A Musical Journey - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £25.00, $32.00, €30.25 (New Item) (arrived 01-Nov-2024 18:00)on December 12, 2024 at 1:30 am
GREG LAKE The Anthology: A Musical Journey (2020 UK/EU 21-track double LP pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl, a career-spanning tribute featuring early recordings from King Crimson, ELP album tracks & singles, along with solo & collaborations. Comeshoused in a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve with illustrated inners & a 60-page 12" booklet with many rare & unseen photos, notes & tributes to Greg. The sleeve shows some light wear & the vinyl is Near Mint BMGCAT404DLP)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen - 180gm Vinyl - UK - 3-LP vinyl set - £50.00, $64.00, €60.50 (Back In Stock) (arrived 02-Nov-2024 18:00)on December 12, 2024 at 1:30 am
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen (2011 UK/EU limited edition 'Music On Vinyl' 16-track 3LP pressed on Audiophile quality 180 Gram Heavyweight Vinyl, complete with an illustrated credits/dicography insert, housed in fold-out embossed picture sleeve. The cover displays only light general wear and the vinyl remains in a 'near mint' condition)***Limited to only 1000 copies***
- Emerson Lake & Palmer - In Concert - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.36, €14.52 (New Item) (arrived 04-Nov-2024 11:34)on December 12, 2024 at 1:30 am
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER In Concert (1979 UK 8-track LP, recorded live at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, housed in a top opening glossy picture sleeve complete with illustrated/tour personnel inner. The sleeve & the vinyl remain in Excellent condition with few signs of wear or play K50652)
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