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Record Details

Artist: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Title: Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen
Format: 3x12"
Label: Manticore
Cat No: 88 150 XET
Released: 1974
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Genres: Prog RockSymphonic Rock
Status Have
Added To List 29th September 2025
Disc 1 | 12"
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Disc 2 | 12"
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Disc 3 | 12"
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Additional Information

Comments Recorded live on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's 1973/74 World Tour.

Cat# 88 150 XET appears on back cover and on spine
Cat# 88150XT on fold

On back cover: "Im Ariola-Vertrieb - Printed in Western Germany by Mohndruck Reinhard Mohn OHG, Gütersloh"
"Made in Germany" stamped in the dead wax - typically for Ariola pressing.

Release has triple fold-out sleeve with die-cut 'E', 'L' and 'P' letters holding the three LPs in black innersleeves and logo embossment in the foldout (every black innersleeve is individually numbered with a white-printed number on the bottom left part: 1 = rec. 1 / 2 = rec. 2 / 3 = sleeve for 3rd record).
Track E includes percussion solo (Con Brio / Palmer).


Similar GEMA / german versions with same die-cut 3-fold cover - all have Manticore label design (Ariola label designs with same cat# are from Austria):
[url=http://www.discogs.com/release/777673]Release 777673[/url] - text on sleeve back is "Im Ariola-Vertrieb - Printed in Western Germany by Mohndruck Reinhard Mohn OHG, Gütersloh" [CURRENTLY VIEWED VERSION]
[url=http://www.discogs.com/release/6260829]Release 6260829[/url] - catalog# and "Im Ariola Vertrieb" as sticker, but no pictures provided;
[url=http://www.discogs.com/release/10504281]Release 10504281[/url] - text on sleeve back is "Im Ariola-Vertrieb - A Manticore Recording Distributed by WEA Records Limited"
[url=http://www.discogs.com/release/7392851]Release 7392851[/url] - No "Made in Germany" in runouts; Text on sleeve back is is "Distributed By the Ariola Group Of Companies" followed by "Printed by (...) Mohndruck", "Imprimé en République Féderale d'Allemagne" and "A Manticore Recording .. by WEA"

Tracks A1, A3: Boosey & Hawkes
Tracks A2, B1 to F2: Manticore Music Ltd.
Track B6 (Epitaph): E.G. Music
Track D1 (Little Rock Getaway): Robbins Music
Track D1 (Fugue): Josef Weinberger Ltd.
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