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Carl Palme<\/a>r admits that\u00a0Emerson, Lake & Palmer<\/a>\u2019s 1978 album\u00a0Love Beach<\/em><\/a>\u00a0had very little going for it and explains that its creation was the result of a secret plan made behind their backs.<\/span><\/p>\n But the drummer also named two tracks that showed the trio hadn\u2019t completely run out of creative energy at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had basically broken up by the summer of 1978 when we started on that album,\u201c Palmer told MusicRadar<\/a> in a recent interview.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Carl Palmer\u00a0on ELP\u2019s Legacy: ‘This Music Is Here to Stay’<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe weren\u2019t like big friends, but we used to hang together. We used to go out to the odd restaurant together. And in \u201978 we\u2019d gone to Nassau in the Bahamas because Keith<\/a> had got a house there.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cSo we were just hanging out on the beach, and that\u2019s where we were when Ahmet Ertegun from Atlantic Records called and said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you try once more in the studio?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The band members tried to put their boss off. \u201cAt first we said, \u2018Well, we\u2019ve got nothing really written.\u2019 Keith [Emerson] was a little bit panicked because he would [usually] come up with a lot of the big ideas, and Greg [Lake] <\/a>hadn\u2019t got any acoustic stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n Palmer said Ertegun wouldn\u2019t give up, and soon brought reinforcement in the form of Island Records boss Chris Blackwell, who owned the Compass Point studio in Nassau.<\/p>\n The drummer went on: \u201cChris told us all about the studio and said, \u2018I\u2019ve got some free time for you if you want it.\u2019 So we realized that they were ganging up on us behind the scenes. And in the end we went into the studio and gave it a go.\u201d<\/p>\n If ELP weren\u2019t confident in the songs they tracked, worse was to come when they decided to name the album after the recording location, and pose\u00a0in beach-attired clothes for the sleeve.<\/p>\n \u201cWe called the album Love Beach<\/em> because that was the name of the beach in front of the studio,\u201d Palmer said. \u201cWe had that dreadful picture on the cover with the three of us looking like the Bee Gees<\/a>. I remember standing on that beach and thinking, \u2018This is wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Naming \u201cCanario\u201d and \u201cMemoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman\u201d as the work\u2019s highlights, he reflected: \u201cThe album really wasn\u2019t that bad, but we never promoted it. It might have sold more if we\u2019d promoted it, but we were tired. We\u2019d toured so much.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople often crack jokes about that album,” he concluded. “Maybe somebody should have stopped us before we ran out of gas.\u201d<\/p>\n It’s down to the last man standing in these groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Allison Rapp<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCarl Palmer Thought \u2018This Is Wrong\u2019 During \u2018Love Beach\u2019 Photo Shoot<\/h3>\n
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