Lucky Man by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

From Songfacts.com: Arguably ELP’s best known song, this almost did not happen. On the last day of recording their first album, ELP did not have enough material to fulfill their contract requirements of 21 minutes per album side. Greg Lake started playing this ballad that he had wrote when he was 12 years old. The group started to record this, improvising as they went along. Keith Emerson’s signature Moog solo at the end was his first take and he wasn’t aware that the tape was running. From Wikipedia: On the band’s DVD Beyond the Beginning, Emerson explains how the solo was entirely improvised. It was recorded in one take. It represented a landmark in popular music and a defining moment in Emerson’s career, despite his insistence that it is below his usual standard. The guitar solo is played by Lake and overdubbed, as indeed were guitar solos from later tracks like “Tarkus” and “Karn Evil 9”. In live performances, Emerson plays a version of the guitar solo on Hammond organ.
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