Reply To: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2026 Nominees are Up for Voting. What Do You Think?

[joegyork]

ELP were one of my introductions to rock / prog. As a teenager I had gotten into classical music after hearing Holst’s The Planets in a music lesson and around the same time Peter & The Wolf which made me realise that music alone could tell a story.

Other than that I was more into pop heavily influenced by my older sister – The Hollies, Marmalade (their ‘Reflections of My Life’ remains a favourite!) etc. I happened across ELP’s Pictures At An Exhibition – I can’t remember if I already knew the original orchestral work but I loved it.

From then on my twin passions were prog and classical before folk came along after I first went into a folk club on a wet Sunday evening and loved the atmosphere, the music and the songs that mostly were about industrial work in the north east of England – particularly mining. My father had been a miner so i could relate strongly even at one step removed.

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