Musician Greg Lake co-founded both King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer -- bands that helped define the sprawling, influential but often-maligned genre known as progressive rock. Latest U.S.

Greg Lake, a cofounder of the British rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, died at the age of 69 on Wednesday, December 7, manager Stewart Young confirmed. Young announced the news on Lake’s ...

Greg Lake, who sang and played ... His death follows bandmate Keith Emerson's, ... 1947, Lake would join various bands in the '60s before being recruited by Robert Fripp to join King Crimson, ...

Greg Lake, Prog-Rock Legend of ... But for us, it was not just trying to be as loud and as big as we could. ... As Greg sang at the end of ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’: ‘death is life.’ ...

(Reuters) - Greg Lake, the singer and bass player for British 1970s progressive rock groups Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and King Crimson, has died of cancer, his former manager said on Thursday.

His death comes just nine months after his former ELP bandmate Keith Emerson died. Emerson Lake & Palmer photographed in 1972. (L-R) Greg Lake, Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer.

LONDON – Musician Greg Lake co-founded both King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer – bands that helped define the sprawling, influential but often-maligned genre known as progressive rock.