Oh, wow fuck fuck fuck.....ELP was my first REAL big musical love. Back in the early 70's, my brother had all their albums to date, and kept getting them as they came out up to and including Welcome Back My Friends....
One of my early favorites was Pictures At An Exhibition, because they covered "Nutrocker" which had become the Boston Bruins hockey theme. And then again, still in my youthful days, finding out that Toccata was used for the Creature Double Feature theme song...
I will always remember the image of him with his high boots, surrounded by rows of keyboards, going absolutely nuts playing like a madman....
RIP.....
EDIT: WTF? "gunshot wound to the head..."? Oh, gawd.....