Brain Salad Surgery

Description

• Formed in 1970, ELP were torchbearers of the progressive rock sound and one of rock’s first super-groups. ELP helped to broaden the audience for the genre from hundreds of thousands into tens of millions and were one the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1970s, achieving global sales of over 40 million albums. Their first 7 album releases all made the U.K. albums chart top 10 and U.S. top 20 • Brain Salad Surgery is ELP’s boldest, most successful and popular album release. It represented the best playing and production in their history • Was the first release on ELP’s own label, Manticore Records • Dominated the charts and the airwaves upon its release in 1973 - reaching U.K No.2 and U.S No.11 • The ‘Karn Evil 9’ epic filled more than the side of an LP • 2CD is the 24/96 HD 2014 remaster of the original 1973 album plus the 2014 Steven Wilson stereo mix, B-sides and alternate takes as well as the now legendary NME flexi disc • LP is cut for the first time from the 2014 remastered files • LP elaborate original sleeve faithfully reproduced - with die-cut gatefold sleeve and fold out poster • Foreword on 140 gsm LP format by Greg Lake • First release of MFiT and HD digital versions of the original album • Produced in association with Emerson, Lake & Palmer • 2CD booklet contains extensive new liner notes, with new band interviews, by legendary rock journalist Chris Welch • The audio was mastered by world- renowned rock studio engineer Andy Pearce