Originally released in 1978, ‘Love Beach’ captures Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the close of their initial run. Recorded during a turbulent period for the band, the album balances shorter, radio-ready material with the side-long suite ‘Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman’. This 2017 remaster brings renewed clarity and separation to the original mix, tightening the rhythm section and adding definition to the layered keyboards and vocals. Tracks such as ‘All I Want Is You’ sit alongside more expansive arrangements, reflecting the stylistic shifts of the late ’70s. For collectors and catalogue completists, this remastered edition offers the strongest presentation of a divisive but historically significant entry in the ELP discography.
Disc 1
1. All I Want Is You – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2. Love Beach – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3. Taste of My Love – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4. The Gambler – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
5. For You – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
6. Canario – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
7. Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
8. All I Want Is You (1978 Alternate Mix) – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
9. Taste of My Love (1978 Alternate Mix) – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
10. The Gambler (1978 Alternate Mix) – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
11. For You (1978 Alternate Mix) – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
12. Honourable Company (A March) [1978 Alternate Mix] – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
13. Canario (1978 Rehearsal Out-take) – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
14. Letters from the Front (1978 Rehearsal Out-take) – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
15. Prologue/The Education of a Gentleman (1978 Rehearsal Out-take) – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
