King Crimson
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“You pick five interesting guys, lock them in a room together… and if they make an album without actually killing each other first, it will at least be an interesting album”: How King Crimson made Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
By Mike Barnes published
The 1973 release steered a new line-up into uncharted waters, resulting in a work that could only have been made by a band who were “prepared to jump off the cliff”

“Robert Fripp watched the show from the wings. As I was playing I was thinking, ‘Oh, I stole this line from Robert… that’s a riff from him too!’” Billy Sheehan’s obsession with King Crimson’s Red
By Grant Moon published
Mr Big, Whom Gods Destroy and Sons of Apollo bassist once spent two weeks listening to nothing else

Robert Fripp endorses new Adrian Belew Crimson project Beat
By Jerry Ewing published
Adrian Belew has teamed up with Tony Levin, Danny Carey and Steve Vai as Beat to perform King Crimson's 80s reportoire

Listen to Todd Rundgren's version of King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man
By Jerry Ewing published
All-star reimaging of King Crimson's debut album, Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King, to be released in April

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have returned to the internet with a sparkling new episode of that thing they do at the weekend
By Fraser Lewry published
Two of Britain's most popular light entertainers are back to enliven your week with a cover of Shocking Blue's classic Venus

“If there’s a message it’s live every day as if it’s your last. I went through a very sticky patch… The freedom of not being enslaved by addiction is marvellous”: John Wetton’s return from the darkness
By Nick Shilton published
With Asia on the rocks and a scuppered solo deal, the singer found himself struggling with alcohol in the 90s - before he finally earned himself a reprieve

Toyah and Robert Fripp continue to bring the noise with chaotic old-skool cover of (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)
By Fraser Lewry published
"It's a brand new instalment and it's a good one!" says Willcox

Robert Fripp and King Crimson manager David Singleton announce West Coast US dates
By Jerry Ewing published
Robert Fripp and David Singleton tell Calidfronia to "ask the questions that get us out of bed in the morning..." on their upcoming Californian spoken word dates

“He never set out to please or comfort, so we often end up with his brilliant musical mind at its best… For that, we can forgive the physical abuse of a few Hammond L-100s”: King Crimson, Marillion, Tangent members and more pay tribute to Keith Emerson
By David West published
15 more examples of his best work, as described by Jakko Jakszyk, Mark Kelly, Andy Tillison, Jem Godfrey, Arjen Lucassen and musicians who worked with the late keyboard genius
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