“They had us swear on a stack of Bibles that no more flags would be burnt. I did it one more time”: Prog icon Keith Emerson and the world’s first instrumental protest song

1968 track and its associated antics enraged its original composer, shocked an American diplomat and got The Nice banned from the Royal Albert Hall for ever

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“They had us swear on a stack of Bibles that no more flags would be burnt. I did it one more time”: Prog icon Keith Emerson and the world’s first instrumental protest song

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