jsd - 2016 is certainly off to a start as a terrible year for losses among popular musicians...not that 2015 was so good. Anyway, while I can't say I've played ELP's first the most of anything in my collection, I can say I do like it a lot and will still listen to it. I can well remember first hearing it just after it came out back in '70 or '71; had never heard anything like it up to that point. Take a Pebble is a standout track. I like Greg Lake's vocals and his song-writing (Still...You Turn Me On is another good Lake composition from BSS). Wish I could find an SACD of ELP's first!
Now Keith Emerson is gone...