From the Beginning is a song written by Greg Lake and performed by the progressive

rock trio Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was released on their 1972 album Trilogy. It is
driven by an acoustic guitar line with layers of electric guitar (both rhythm and lead),
electric bass guitar, and sung by Lake, with some backing on drums (played by Carl
Palmer with tympani mallets and without cymbals), and with a distinctive closing
synthesizer solo from Keith Emerson, accompanied by overdubbed random
synthesizer-generated effects. It hit #39 in the US and was their highest charting single.
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The song was covered by the heavy metal band Dokken[2] and Czech folk rock
band Marsyas, albeit under a different name (Studen koupel) with a Czech version of
the lyrics.[