Born on this day in 1944 – Keith Emerson, keyboards, from English progressive rock band The Nice, who had the 1968 UK hit single an instrumental rearrangement of Leonard Bernstein’s ‘America’. And as Emerson Lake and Palmer, had the 1977 UK No.2 single ‘Fanfare For The Common Man’. Emerson died on 11 March 2016 in Santa Monica, California, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He had become “depressed, nervous and anxious” because nerve damage in his hands had hampered his playing.