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Greg Lake, of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and King Crimson, has died of cancer at the age of 69, according to bbc.com.
What is tragic is that keyboardist Keith Emerson died earlier this year at the age of 71, to a suicide gunshot to the head. He was suffering from depression.
Only drummer Carl Palmer is alive from the trio.
Palmer made this statement on his Facebook page:
December (11)
[07 Dec 2016] Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), 69, cancer
[07 Dec 2016] Elliott Schwartz (composer), 80
[07 Dec 2016] Junaid Jamshed (musician, television personality and preacher), 52, plane crash
[05 Dec 2016] Big Syke, 48, rapper
[05 Dec 2016] Mona Maraachli, 58, singer, heart attack
[05 Dec 2016] Adam Sagan (Circle II Circle), 35, lymphoma
[04 Dec 2016] Wayne Duncan (Daddy Cool), 72, stroke
[04 Dec 2016] Radim Hladík (Blue Effect), 69, pulmonary fibrosis
[02 Dec 2016] Allan Zavod (Frank Zappa), 71, brain cancer
[02 Dec 2016] Mark Gray, 64, country singer
[02 Dec 2016] Gisela May, 92, German actress and singer
[01 Dec 2016] Micky Fitz (The Business), 60?
What is tragic is that keyboardist Keith Emerson died earlier this year at the age of 71, to a suicide gunshot to the head. He was suffering from depression.
Only drummer Carl Palmer is alive from the trio.
Palmer made this statement on his Facebook page:
It is with great sadness that I must now say goodbye to my friend and fellow band-mate, Greg Lake.
Greg's soaring voice and skill as a musician will be remembered by all who knew his music and recordings made with ELP and King Crimson. I have fond memories of those great years we had in the 1970s and many memorable shows we performed together.
Having lost Keith this year as well, has made this particularly hard for all of us. As Greg sang at the end of Pictures At An Exhibition, "death is life." His music can now live forever in the hearts of all who loved him.
Carl Palmer
December 8, 2016
Below are more deaths for the month of December - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2016.
Greg's soaring voice and skill as a musician will be remembered by all who knew his music and recordings made with ELP and King Crimson. I have fond memories of those great years we had in the 1970s and many memorable shows we performed together.
Having lost Keith this year as well, has made this particularly hard for all of us. As Greg sang at the end of Pictures At An Exhibition, "death is life." His music can now live forever in the hearts of all who loved him.
Carl Palmer
December 8, 2016
December (11)
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