Manoeuvres


Manoeuvres is the second and final solo studio album by English musician Greg Lake with his 1981 to 1983 Greg Lake Band, released in July 1983 by Chrysalis Records. Like his debut solo album, Greg Lake, Manoeuvres was created in close collaboration with Northern Irish guitarist and singer-songwriter Gary Moore. It includes a song "Haunted" written with friend and bassist Tris Margetts and rock cartoonist-artist Tony Benyon.

The album features a pop-flavoured progressive rock sound resembling that of Asia, the group Lake would join briefly in the end of 1983. Manoeuvres received mainly negative reviews at the time and failed to match the sales of its predecessor.
It would be Lake's last studio album as a solo artist with his Greg Lake Band. His "Songs of a Lifetime" tour in 2012 produced a 2013 solo album of the same name, and his 2012 solo concert live in Piacenza, Italy also produced a live album "Live In Piacenza" released in 2017.
His other work consisted of collaborations and concerts with artists including Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band; The Who; Ian Anderson; The RD Crusaders and Roger Daltrey ; his solo projects supporting the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the Sara Anne Wood Rescue Center, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and other organizations, and periodic reunions with Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

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