Rock legend Keith Emerson died

British Keyboardist and progressive rock legend Keith Emerson died on 10 March 2016. He was 71.

•    Emerson, the co-founder of British prog-rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was widely considered one of the top keyboard players of the progressive rock era.
•    Apart from ELP, founded in 1970, Keith Emerson is best remembered for his role in The Nice, formed in 1967. The British musician and composer was born in Yorkshire in 1944.
•    ELP rose to become one of the most popular bands of the 1970s, and were voted in at number seven on Rolling Stone’s 2011 Reader Poll of the best prog-rock acts of all time.
•    Keith Noel Emerson was an English keyboardist and composer. 
•    Emerson played in a number of bands before he found his first commercial success with P. P. Arnold's backing band the Nice in the late 1960s. 
•    He was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock super groups, in 1970. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were critically and commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era