Solo career and other projects
In 1975, while still a member of ELP, Lake achieved solo chart success when his single, "I Believe in Father Christmas", reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. It has become a Yuletide perennial. In the UK, the single sold over 13,000 copies in two days.
Several months following the break-up of ELP in 1979, Lake began to write new songs and had "put down a tremendous amount of material" for his first solo album. He travelled to Los Angeles and worked with a group of session musicians to develop his songs further, but he found a lack of personality in the music, though not at the fault of the performers. Lake realised he wished to play as part of a group, and began to assemble members of the Greg Lake Band. The result, Greg Lake, was released in September 1981 on Chrysalis Records, and reached number 62 in both the UK and the US. Lake supported the album with a tour, of which their debut gig took place in August 1981 at the Reading Festival with Gary Moore on guitars, Ted McKenna on drums, Tommy Eyre on keyboards, and Tris Margetts on bass. The album was a critical but not a commercial success.
Lake's second solo album, Manoeuvres, was released in July 1983, and flopped. It received minimal promotion and Lake never toured the material. He split with his record company the same year. Lake later admitted that the public did not want to buy guitar-based material from him.
Later that year, he briefly joined Palmer in the 1980s supergroup Asia, replacing fellow King Crimson alumnus John Wetton, in order to do a concert in Japan.
His next move was to co-form Emerson, Lake & Powell with drummer Cozy Powell.
In 2001, Lake toured as a member of the seventh incarnation of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.
In 2003, Lake played the bass on the Who song "Real Good Looking Boy".
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