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King Crimson’s tortuous journey through fourth album Islands – and its 30-year fallout
By Sid Smith published
How King Crimson fractured, regrouped and fractured again as they made 1971 album Islands

King Crimson 1982 France concert to be released on vinyl and CD in September
By Jerry Ewing published
King Crison's Sheltering Skies (Live in Fréjus, August 27th 1982) is the very first time a live album from the 1980s line-up has been released on vinyl

Things are hotting up in the Worcestershire kitchen of Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
By Fraser Lewry published
Robert Fripp and Toyah's Sunday Lunch returns with a blast through the Stooges' Search And Destroy

“Robert decides what to do and Fripp has to go and do it”: How to survive King Crimson
By Sid Smith published
Serious leader of a prog behemoth, hugely influential guitarist, half of the Toyah & Robert party band… who is the real Robert Fripp? He offers some tantalising hints

"All of a sudden we play at blinding speed and unbearable intensity, and everyone starts to take notice and stand up": How King Crimson got started
By Sid Smith published
Recorded in just 10 days in 1969, King Crimson’s iconic In The Court Of The Crimson King has been called “the true point at which progressive rock was born”. We look at the making of a landmark album

2024 may be remembered as the year in which Robert Fripp got naked and pretended to open an OnlyFans account
By Fraser Lewry published
April Fool's Day may have come and gone, but some images will linger forever

“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
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