Tarkus
Sign in to saveTarkus is the second studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 4 June 1971 by Island Records. Following their debut tour across Europe during the second half of 1970, the group paused touring commitments in January 1971 to record a new album at Advision Studios in London. Greg Lake produced the album with Eddy Offord as engineer.
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Tarkus is a studio album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released by Island Records in the United Kingdom on June 14, 1971. The work was recorded in 1971 and produced by Greg Lake. It is categorized as progressive rock and psychedelic rock, with iTunes listing the genre as Prog-Rock/Art Rock.
The album is available as a vinyl record, music streaming service, and music download. It charted on the UK Albums Chart. The release contains 17 tracks, which are organized into six parts.
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Key facts
- Album.name
- Tarkus
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- Album.cover
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (1971) front cover.jpg
- Album.released
- 4 June 1971
- Album.recorded
- January–February 1971
- Album.studio
- Advision, Fitzrovia, London
- Album.genre
- Progressive rock
- Album.length
- 39:05
- Album.label
- Island (UK)Cotillion (US)
- Album.producer
- Greg Lake
- Album.prev_title
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- Album.prev_year
- 1970
- Album.next_title
- Pictures at an Exhibition
- Album.next_year
- 1971
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- psychedelic rock
- Producer
- Greg Lake
- Duration
- 2335
- Performer
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- Record label
- Island Records
- Distribution format
- music download
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- publication date
- 1971-06-14
- title
- Tarkus
- number of parts of this work
- 6
- charted in
- UK Albums Chart
- place of publication
- United Kingdom
- form of creative work
- studio album
- recording date
- 1971-01-00
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Background and recording
- Songs
- Side one
- Side two
- Artwork and title
- Release
- Reception
- Reissues
- Track listing
- Original vinyl
- 2012 Edition
- Personnel
- Charts
- Weekly charts
- Year-end charts
- Certifications
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
Tarkus is the second studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 4 June 1971 by Island Records. Following their debut tour across Europe during the second half of 1970, the group paused touring commitments in January 1971 to record a new album at Advision Studios in London. Greg Lake produced the album with Eddy Offord as engineer.
Side one features the 20-minute conceptual title track written by keyboardist Keith Emerson, the opening of which created friction between Lake and Emerson that almost split the group, but Lake agreed to pursue it and contributed musical ideas for it and wrote the lyrics. Side two features a collection of unrelated tracks of different styles. The artwork was designed by William Neal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tarkus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.