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# The Story of The Nice: Hang on to a Dream Paperback – April 7, 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Well researched and full of interesting tidbits of information on the Nice and all members
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2019*

Having played keyboards since I was seven (now 64) and also a journalist, I appreciated the amount of trivia and stories about not  only the Nice, but the other bands associated with them at the time. The interrelation of musicians, their roots and playing ability was well covered. This later version has a little input from Keith Emerson but not a lot. When added up with his autobiography, it does answer a number of questions, especially with recording efforts and touring issues. The one thing it really does is remind the reader of the quality of the music they were reaching for and encourage the reader to revisit the collections at a reasonable high volume. I was lucky enough to meet all the ELP members over the years and found them all very personable, especially Carl Palmer, who I still see from time to time.The reading is somewhat tedious but luckily has numerous paragraph breaks to make it easy to stop mid-page. Photographs are very limited.  The author does a good job of tying the under-story together. Nice to read of Tom Szakaly's efforts to help out Keith for the High Voltage show.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Lots of new stories and details.
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2022*

Not the best of prose, but still quite interesting.

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    The missing piece in the progressive rock jigsaw
  

*by S***4 on Reviewed in Italy on January 26, 2018*

This probably is the only biography of The Nice available at the time I'm writing this, which is the book's main strenght. Hanson clearly made a thorough research to put his work together and finally gave justice to a too-often overlooked chapter in Keith Emerson's carreer (due to the incomparable success of ELP that followed).Hanson's style of writing sounds a bit too 'journalistic' to my tastes at times, and I think it flashes back and forward in time too often (expecially in the first part) but the book is definitely worth reading, if only to get the importance of The Nice in laying the foundation of what would have later been called 'progressive rock'.The essay also briefly covers the years following the demise of the group (Brian Davison's Every Which Way, Jackson Heights, Refugee and, of course, ELP), Emerson's solo career and the 2002-2003 group reunion.First published in 2002, the book was updated for its 2011 reissue to include, inter-alia, a due eulogy to drummer Brian Davison, who passed away April 15th 2008. Keith Emerson's tragic death (March 11th, 2016) has indirectly turned this book into a definitive statement on the matter.

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