Welcome Back My Friends...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer released the live LP "Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends…Ladies and Gentlemen" on Aug. 19, 1974. It was originally packaged as a three-disk vinyl set in a gatefold ("trifold" with two sections opening away from the center) cover, the inside of which used the letters "E", "L" and "P" as retainers for the individual disks. The album reached No. 4 on the Billboard album chart, making it ELP's highest charting album in the US.

The album was recorded during the 1973/1974 "Someone Get Me a Ladder" world tour. The title of the album comes from the introduction to the performance, itself a paraphrase of the opening line of the song "Karn Evil 9: First Impression, Part 2".

Happy 50th Birthday to ELP's "Welcome Back My Friends…." album!!