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Skip in Skip x Embed x Share Greg Lake, the vocalist and bass player for 1970's progressive rock groups Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and King Crimson, has died of cancer, his former manager reported on Thursday. USA TODAY 
  
 Greg Lake, left, is seen in a 1972 photo with bandmates Keith Emerson, and Carl Palmer. (Photo: AP) 
  
 LONDON — Musician Greg Lake, a prog-rock pioneer who co-founded King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died. He was 69. 
  
 Manager Stewart Young said in a statement that Lake died Wednesday after “a long and stubborn battle with cancer.” 
  
 Born in the southern English seaside town of Poole in 1947, Lake founded King Crimson with guitarist Robert Fripp in the late 1960s. The band pioneered the sprawling, ambitious genre that came to be known as progressive rock. 
  
 He went on to form ELP with keyboardist Keith Emerson, who died in March, and drummer Carl Palmer. With Lake as vocalist and guitarist, ELP impressed the crowds at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, in a lineup that also featured Jimi Hendrix and The Who. 
  
 The band released six platinum-selling albums characterized by songs of epic length, classical influence and ornate imagery, and toured with elaborate light shows and theatrical staging. 
  
 Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery included a nearly 30-minute composition called Karn Evil 9 that featured a Moog synthesizer and the eerie, carnival-like lyric: “Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends.” 
  
 They filled stadiums and sold records by the millions, but ELP and other prog-rock bands such as Yes and the Moody Blues suffered a backlash with the arrival of punk in the mid- to-late 1970s. They were ridiculed as the embodiment of pomposity and self-indulgence that rock supposedly stood against. 
  
 ELP broke up in 1979, reunited in 1991, later disbanded again and reunited for a 2010 tour. 
  
 Emerson died in March from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Santa Monica, California. 
  
 Lake’s songs as a solo artist include I Believe in Father Christmas, an enduring seasonal staple first released in 1975. 
  
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 Greg Lake, who fronted both King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died aged 69. 
  
 One of the founding fathers of progressive rock, the British musician is known for songs including In the Court of the Crimson King and his solo hit I Believe in Father Christmas. 
  
 He died on Wednesday after "a long and stubborn battle with cancer", said his manager. 
  
 The news comes nine months after Lake's band-mate Keith Emerson died. 
  
 Keyboardist Emerson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, coroners in the US said. 
  
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lake (right) with Carl Palmer in 1971 as ELP were recording their album Trilogy 
  
 Lake's manager Stewart Young wrote on Facebook: "Yesterday, December 7th, I lost my best friend to a long and stubborn battle with cancer. 
  
 "Greg Lake will stay in my heart forever, as he has always been." 
  
 Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett paid tribute on Twitter, writing: "Music bows its head to acknowledge the passing of a great musician and singer, Greg Lake." 
  
 "Another sad loss with the passing of Greg Lake," wrote Rick Wakeman, keyboardist in prog rock band Yes. 
  
 "You left some great music with us my friend & so like Keith, you will live on." 
  
 'Greatest music made for love' 
  
 Born in Bournemouth, Lake was given his first guitar at the age of 12 and took lessons from a local tutor called Don Strike. 
  
 He formed a close friendship with fellow student Robert Fripp, with whom he created King Crimson in 1969. 
  
 Their debut album In the Court of the Crimson King featured such songs as 21st Century Schizoid Man. 
  
 It set a standard for progressive rock and received a glowing, well-publicised testimonial from The Who's Pete Townshend, who called it "an uncanny masterpiece". 
  
 But within a year, founding member Mike Giles quit and Lake refused to work with the band - although he stuck around long enough to sing on their second album, In the Wake of Poseidon, which was criticised for treading old ground. 
  
 'Love not money' 
  
 The singer and bassist was then approached by Emerson, who had supported King Crimson on a North American tour and needed a singer for his new band. 
  
 Joined by Atomic Rooster drummer Carl Palmer, ELP made their live debut at the Guildhall in Plymouth in 1970 before giving a career-making performance at the Isle of Wight Festival. 
  
 Unusually, the band combined heavy rock riffs with a classical influence. They scored hit albums with Pictures at an Exhibition, Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery - many of them produced by Lake himself. 
  
 Tarkus, released in 1971, featured an opening track inspired by the fictional Tarkus character - a half-tank, half-armadillo creature that would appear on stage at gigs - that lasted more than 20 minutes. 
  
 The band went on to enjoy chart success in 1977 with their version of Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. 
  
 ELP's ambitious light shows and on-stage theatrics were the epitome of '70s rock excess, and several punk acts cited ELP as one of the bands they were reacting against. 
  
 But the band sold more than 48 million records, and Lake continued to be an influential and popular touring musician even after the band wound down in the late 1970s. 
  
 In 2010, Kanye West repopularised the King Crimson song 21st Century Schizoid Man when he sampled it in his hit song, Power. 
  
 "The greatest music is made for love, not for money," Lake is quoted as saying on his official website. 
  
 "The early ELP albums were pioneering because there is no standing still; time is always moving forward." 
  
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Greg Lake of 1970s rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, died Wednesday after "a long and stubborn battle with cancer," his manager says. He was 69. A progressive rock pioneer, the British vocalist and guitarist first formed King Crimson with Robert Fripp and Mike Giles in the 1960s, per the BBC. Pete Townshend of The Who described their debut album—which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 28 in the US—as "an uncanny masterpiece," per the Guardian. However, Lake soon after left the group to form a new one with keyboardist Keith Emerson and drummer Carl Palmer. Emerson, Lake and Palmer then played alongside Jimi Hendrix and The Who at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. The band, known for its extravagant live performances and lengthy tracks, went on to release six albums that went platinum before its popularity waned with the arrival of punk, reports USA Today. The band officially broke up in 1979, though its three members reunited in 1991 and again in 2010; Emerson committed suicide in his California home in March. Lake also had a solo career, with his single "I Believe in Father Christmas" reaching No. 2 in the UK. The song sprang from the "crass corporate financial exploitation" of the holiday, Lake told the Guardian last month. "As much as I love everyone having a good time … it's more important to make some spiritual human contact, or visit someone lonely."