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| | Greg Lake: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Lake learned to read music and also to play pieces by Paganini, among other classical composers, but his aspirations lay with emulating the sound of his favorite band of the era, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, and their lead guitarist, Hank B. Marvin. |
 | | That first line-up of the band only lasted a year--by December of 1969, Giles and McDonald were tired of touring and opted out, and Lake refused to continue working with the group, although he stayed around long enough to sing on their second album, In the Wake of Poseidon [+] (1970). |
 | | Lake's production experience as a member of King Crimson [+] (who had produced their own debut album) also served ELP in good stead, and his songwriting became the creative nucleus for the group's first three studio albums. |
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