King Biscuit Flower Hour: Greatest Hits Live is a compilation live album by the progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, are an English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consists of Keith Emerson , Greg Lake and Carl Palmer...

. It features tracks from two different tours: The 1973-1974 Brain Salad Surgery

Brain Salad Surgery

Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1973 and the first under their Manticore Records imprint. It fuses rock and classical themes. Lyrics were co-written by Greg Lake with fellow ex-King Crimson member Peter Sinfield. Cover...

Tour, and the 1977 Works Tour.

Almost all the material included here had been released before on other live albums: The five songs from the Brain Salad Surgery tour (Tracks 11-15) were originally included on the 1974 triple Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends

Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends

Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer is a 1974 live album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, originally released as a three-disk vinyl album in a gatefold cover, the inside of which used the letters "E", "L" and "P" as...

, and four songs from the Works tour ("Peter Gunn Theme", "Tiger in a Spotlight", "C'Est la Vie" and "The Enemy God") had appeared in 1979 as part of In Concert

Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert

Emerson, Lake and Palmer In Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer , recorded at the 26 August 1977 show at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, which is featured on the album cover. It was released by Atlantic Records in November 1979, following ELP's breakup...

. In Concert was re-released in 1993 as a two-disc set under the title Works Live, adding seven new tracks. Two of those seven ("Maple Leaf Rag" and "Watching Over You") have been included here too. That makes eleven tracks.

The remaining four tracks are available legally for the first time: A piano adaptation of the first movement of Keith Emerson

Keith Emerson

Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...

's Piano Concerto No. 1 (mislabled as "Piano Improvisation"), a short Carl Palmer

Carl Palmer

Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer and percussionist. He is credited as one of the most respected rock drummers to emerge from the 1960s...

 solo, and performances of "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Pirates". The version of "Fanfare" included here is a performance without the orchestra the band used on some concerts during the tour. One version with the orchestra is available on Works Live. Also, the recording of "Pirates" is, maybe, the unique registered live recording of the track during the Works tour and was originally featured on the bootleg

Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging...

 album Works: Volume ½. It does not feature the orchestra as by the time of this recording, the orchestra had been fired due to lack of funds to pay them.

Track listing

Disc One:

1. "Peter Gunn Theme" (Mancini
   Henry Mancini
   Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
   
   ) – 3:43
2. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield
   Peter Sinfield
   Peter John Sinfield is an English poet, lyricist and artist, most famously known as the lyricist and co-founding member of early incarnations of King Crimson, whose debut album In the Court of the Crimson King has been regarded as one of the most influential progressive rock albums ever...
   
   ) – 4:22
3. "C'Est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:21
4. "Piano Improvisation" (Emerson) – 5:39
   • Piano Concerto No. 1, 1st Movement: Allegro Giojoso
5. "Maple Leaf Rag" (Joplin
   Scott Joplin
   Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
   
   ) – 1:17
6. "Drum Solo" (Palmer) – 1:25
7. "The Enemy God" (Prokofiev
   Sergei Prokofiev
   Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
   
   ) – 2:45
8. "Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:13
9. "Pirates" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 13:27
10. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Copland
    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
    
    ) – 8:20
11. "Hoedown" (Copland) – 4:23
12. "Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) – 3:01
13. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 3:09
14. "Piano Improvisation" (Emerson, Gulda
    Friedrich Gulda
    Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7...
    
    ) – 7:09

Disc Two:

1. "Karn Evil 9" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 34:31
2. "Fully Interactive" – 36:01

• Track 2 is a multimedia track.