Then in 2002 when Keith Emerson reformed The Nice for a short tour of a few concerts in England, Vivacitas a double live album, was then published.
Keith Joseph Anthony Jackson, born 8 in Newcastle, first played bass with unknown bands like The Vandykes and The Invaders.
Then the two will meet again at the end of 1966 to help the singer P. P. Arnold, ex-Ike and Tina Turner Revue, by forming a group which accompanies her on tour at the express request of Andrew Loog Oldham manager of the Rolling Stones, with the ex-Mark Leeman Five drummer Ian Hague and trumpeter guitarist David O'List.
But despite a revisited version of a Nice song, The Cry of Eugene with beautiful new arrangements, the King Progress album was a commercial failure.
For the recording of the next album Fifth Avenue Bus, he recruits John McBurnie on vocals and acoustic guitar 12 strings, Brian Chatton on keyboards, ex-Warriors with Jon Anderson and ex-Flaming Youth with Phil Collins.
The album, although supported by the Vertigo record company, which offered the group a luxurious cover, did not obtain the expected success.
We also found Godfrey arranging and conducting the orchestra on the soundtrack of the film Inferno, whose music was composed and played by Keith Emerson, the album released in 1980.
On tour, the band could not recreate the sound of the orchestra, Jackson approached the Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz to offer him to join the formation.