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Maybe it might be useful to try and identify the quotes he employed. There's definitely Mead Lux Lewis' Honky Tonk Train at 4:05 and JP Johnson's Carolina Shout around 4:40.

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He proved that the piano has a place as a solo instrument, not only in "pop" music and radio-friendly ballads, but in "real" rock music.
Hmm. I thought Little Richard pretty much took care of that. laugh [/QB]
Yes and no. Little Richard proved that you could play rock music on a piano, true. But what Emerson and Wakeman did was make the piano/keyboards an integral part of the core group- on a par with any of the guitar shredders that were the norm in harder rock at that time.


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