1971 live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

<i>Pictures at an Exhibition</i> (Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer album)

Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)

<p><i><b>Pictures at an Exhibition</b></i> is a live album by English <a href="/en/Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock" class="wl">progressive rock</a> band <a href="/en/Emerson,_Lake_&_Palmer" title="Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer" class="wl">Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer</a>, released in November 1971 on <a href="/en/Island_Records" title="Island Records" class="wl">Island Records</a>. It features the group's rock adaptation of <i><a href="/en/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition" title="Pictures at an Exhibition" class="wl">Pictures at an Exhibition</a></i> by <a href="/en/Modest_Mussorgsky" title="Modest Mussorgsky" class="wl">Modest Mussorgsky</a>, performed at <a href="/en/Newcastle_City_Hall" title="Newcastle City Hall" class="wl">Newcastle City Hall</a> on 26 March 1971.</p>

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background-color: burlywood; font-size: 125%;">Pictures at an Exhibition</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:PicturesatanExhibitionLP.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:PicturesatanExhibitionLP.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/PicturesatanExhibitionLP.jpg/220px-PicturesatanExhibitionLP.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="302" data-file-height="300" data-file-type="bitmap" height="219" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/PicturesatanExhibitionLP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/PicturesatanExhibitionLP.jpg 2x" alt="PicturesatanExhibitionLP.jpg"></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: burlywood"><a href="/en/Album#Live" title="Album" class="wl">Live album</a><span> </span>by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="/en/Emerson,_Lake_&_Palmer" title="Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer" class="wl">Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">November 1971</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">26 March 1971</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venue</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Newcastle_City_Hall" title="Newcastle City Hall" class="wl">Newcastle City Hall</a>, <a href="/en/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne" class="wl">Newcastle</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Music_genre" title="Music genre" class="wl">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/en/Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock" class="wl">Progressive rock</a></li><li><a href="/en/Symphonic_rock" title="Symphonic rock" class="mw-redirect wl">symphonic rock</a></li><li><a href="/en/Classical_crossover" title="Classical crossover" class="mw-redirect wl">classical crossover</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="duration"><span class="min">38</span>:<span class="s">00</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Record_label" title="Record label" class="wl">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/en/Island_Records" title="Island Records" class="wl">Island</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Record_producer" title="Record producer" class="wl">Producer</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/en/Greg_Lake" title="Greg Lake" class="wl">Greg Lake</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: burlywood"><a href="/en/Emerson,_Lake_&_Palmer" title="Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer" class="wl">Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer</a> chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em"><i><b>Pictures at an Exhibition</b></i><br>(1971)</td>
<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em"><i><a href="/en/Welcome_Back_My_Friends_to_the_Show_That_Never_Ends_-_Ladies_and_Gentlemen" title="Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends - Ladies and Gentlemen" class="mw-redirect wl">Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends</a></i><br>(1974)</td></tr>

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<ol><li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/en/Nut_Rocker#Other_recordings" title="Nut Rocker" class="wl">Nut Rocker (Live)</a>"</span><br>Released: 28 February 1972 <span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></span></li></ol>
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<p>The band had performed the Mussorgsky piece since their live debut in August 1970, after keyboardist <a href="/en/Keith_Emerson" title="Keith Emerson" class="wl">Keith Emerson</a> had attended an orchestral performance of the piece several years before and pitched the idea to guitarist and frontman <a href="/en/Greg_Lake" title="Greg Lake" class="wl">Greg Lake</a> and drummer <a href="/en/Carl_Palmer" title="Carl Palmer" class="wl">Carl Palmer</a>, who agreed to adapt it while contributing sections to the arrangement. The album concludes with the concert's encore, "<a href="/en/Nut_Rocker" title="Nut Rocker" class="wl">Nut Rocker</a>", a rock adaptation of <i><a href="/en/The_Nutcracker" title="The Nutcracker" class="wl">The Nutcracker</a></i> originally arranged by <a href="/en/Kim_Fowley" title="Kim Fowley" class="wl">Kim Fowley</a> and recorded by <a href="/en/B._Bumble_and_the_Stingers" title="B. Bumble and the Stingers" class="wl">B. Bumble and the Stingers</a> in 1962.</p>

<p><i>Pictures at an Exhibition</i> went to number 3 on the <a href="/en/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart" class="wl">UK Albums Chart</a> and number 10 on the US <a href="/en/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200" class="wl"><i>Billboard</i> 200</a>. In 2001, it was reissued as a remastered edition that included a studio version of the piece recorded in 1993.</p>



Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It features the group's rock adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971. The band had performed the Mussorgsky piece since their live debut in August 1970, after keyboardist Keith Emerson had attended an orchestral performance of the piece several years before and pitched the idea to guitarist and frontman Greg Lake and drummer Carl Palmer, who agreed to adapt it while contributing sections to the arrangement. The album concludes with the concert's encore, "Nut Rocker", a rock adaptation of The Nutcracker originally arranged by Kim Fowley and recorded by B. Bumble and the Stingers in 1962. 