Mellotronists

>Tell us the story again about how a young Rick Wakeman, who laboured in
>the fields of western Mississippi picking cotton, left the tin-roofed
>shack of his share cropper parents and made his way, at the age of nine,
>to New Orleans, where he picked up classical European influences while
>playing organ nightly in various bars and a certain French Quarter
>bordello, before being forced to leave the city after a fellow musician
>was accidentally killed in a drunken argument over a leslie cabinet. He
>worked his way north to St. Louis and ultimately Chicago, where he put
>together an unwieldy combo and after a long club residency became known
>as the father of that most curious and beloved musical style, Delta Prog.
>
You've got it wrong, but it's a common mistake. That was Keith 
Emerson...........as any fule kno.

Dave.