To the Power of Three

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To the Power of Three
Studio album by Three
Cover

Publication
(s)

1988

Label (s) Geffen

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

8th

running time

37 min, 52 sec

occupation

production

Carl Palmer and Robert Berry

chronology
- To the Power of Three -

To the Power of Three is the first and so far only studio album by the progressive rock group Three , released in 1988.

History of origin

After the end of Emerson, Lake & Powell , Carl Palmer and Keith Emerson formed the band Three together with singer, bassist and guitarist Robert Berry . With a demo the band managed to get signed to Geffen Records . With Talkin 'Bout , Runaway and You Do or You Don't , Berry wrote three of the eight songs. Talkin 'Bout was a holdover from Berry's previous band GTR . Emerson contributed On My Way Home , which is dedicated to his late companion Tony Stratton-Smith. The musicians composed Lover to Lover and the multi-part Desde la Vida together . Songwriter Sue Shifrin wrote the song Chains . Additionally is The-Byrds - Cover Eight Miles High included on the album. The album was recorded within three months at the London studios E-Zee Studios and West Side Studios, London.

Track list

  1. Talkin 'Bout (Berry) - 4:02
  2. Lover to Lover (Emerson, Berry, Palmer) - 4:12
  3. Chains (Shifrin, Marlette) - 3:43
  4. Desde la Vida - 7:08
    La Vista (Emerson, Berry, Palmer)
    Frontera (Emerson)
    Sangre de Toro (Emerson, Palmer)
  5. Eight Miles High ( Clark , McGuinn , Crosby - text revised: Emerson, Berry, Palmer) - 4:11
  6. Runaway (Berry) - 4:44
  7. You Do or You Don't (Berry) - 5:06
  8. On My Way Home (Emerson) - 4:46

success

The album peaked at # 97 on the US Billboard 200 and the single Talkin 'Bout peaked at # 9 on the US mainstream rock track chart. The album flopped not only for commercial reasons. Artistically, the album was not received very well either. Instead of sophisticated progressive rock , as one was used to from Emerson and Lake, Three leaned more towards mainstream and adult oriented rock . Keith Emerson called the album "the most commercial product [he] was ever involved in" years later. The Musikexpress called the album a "perfect example of when modern keyboard technology falls into the wrong hands."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Power of Three. (No longer available online.) Elp-history.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 15, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.elp-history.de  
  2. ↑ Chart & Awards. Allmusic , accessed August 15, 2011 .