Elegy (The Nice album)


Elegy was the final official album release by the Nice, Keith Emerson having moved on to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Lee Jackson to Jackson Heights and Brian Davison to Every Which Way. It consists of live versions of songs from earlier releases and a cover of "My Back Pages". Released after the Nice had disbanded, the album achieved number 5 in the UK album chart.
"Hang on to a Dream" and "America" were recorded live at Fillmore East, New York during the group's 1969 tour.

Cover art

The UK edition came in a gatefold sleeve. It was designed by Hipgnosis, well known as designers of album covers for Pink Floyd and other progressive rock bands. The front and back covers show a Sahara desert scene with a line of fifty red footballs receding towards a distant dune. The inside of the cover shows, in the distance, a mesa or plateau; in front is a gravelly landscape strewn with memorabilia of the Nice such as older album covers, publicity shots, press releases and a scrapbook of press cuttings.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Hang On to a Dream" – 12:43
  2. "My Back Pages" – 9:12

    Side two

  3. "Third Movement, Pathetique" – 7.05
  4. "America" – 10:27

    Personnel

;The Nice