Emerson, Lake & Palmer announce newly remastered reissue of Works Live

Emerson Lake & Palmer in the 70s — (Image credit: Robert Ellis)

Prog legends Emerson, Lake & Palmer have announced they will release a newly remastered version of their Works Live album through BMG on July 24. The band have also shared a new live video for their cover of Peter Gunn.

Recorded mostly at their 26 August 1977 show at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal in Canada with three tracks being recorded from a show in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA, in November 1977, the album was originally released as the single album, In Concert, in 1979, but was later re-released and repackaged as Works Live in 1993, which fell more in line with the late Keith Emerson's wish that the original album be a double album, a move initially scuppered by the band's break up.

The new release features brand new artwork and new liner notes, and will be released as a double vinyl album, a 2 CD set and as a digital release.

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Last month drummer Carl Palmer announced that he is bringing his immersive An Evening With Emerson, Lake & Palmer show to England for three dates in February 2027, which will feature the late Keith Emerson and Greg Lake appearing on big screens behind Palmer and his band.

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ELP Works Live Cover 2026 — (Image credit: BMG)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Works Live

CD
Disc
1. Introductory Fanfare
2. Peter Gunn
3. Tiger In A Spotlight
4. C'est La Vie
5. Watching Over You
6. Maple Leaf Rag
7. The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits
8. Fanfare for the Common Man
9. Knife-Edge
10. Show Me The Way To Go Home
11. Abaddon's Bolero

Disc 2
1. Pictures At An Exhibition (i. Promenade Part 1, ii. The Gnome, iii. Promenade Pt. 2, iv. The Hut of Baba Yaga, v. The Curse of Baba Yaga, vi. The Hut of Baba Yaga, vii. The Great Gates of Kiev)
2. Closer To Believing
3. Piano Concerto, Third Movement: Toccata Con Fuoco
4. Tank

LP
Side A
1. Introductory Fanfare
2. Peter Gunn
3. Tiger In A Spotlight
4. C'est La Vie
5. Watching Over You
6. Maple Leaf Rag
7. The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits

Side B
1. Fanfare for the Common Man
2. Knife-Edge
3. Show Me The Way To Go Home

Side C
1. Abaddon's Bolero
2. Pictures At An Exhibition (i. Promenade Part 1, ii. The Gnome, iii. Promenade Pt. 2, iv. The Hut of Baba Yaga, v. The Curse of Baba Yaga, vi. The Hut of Baba Yaga, vii. The Great Gates of Kiev)

Side D
1. Closer To Believing
2. Piano Concerto, Third Movement: Toccata Con Fuoco
3. Tank

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Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.