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Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.(Book review)

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Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. By Edward Macan. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2006. [xlv, 817 p. ISBN 0-8126-9596-8. $49.95.] Appendices, indexes.

Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer by Edward Macan must rate as one of the most substantive and meticulous critical biographies of a rock band ever written. The work represents an enormous scholarly effort that examines this influential and often polarizing band from a myriad of perspectives and in intricate detail.

Author of the well-known Rocking The Classics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), Macan situates his book in the context of ...

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