King Crimson: Latest Shade of Crimson
Ian MacDonald, NME, 4 August 1973
SOME REPORTS from America suggested that King Crimson's recent tour had bombed completely. Others maintained that everything had gone according to plot and that audience reactions had been excellent (or "excrement", as John Wetton might say if poked with a long pointed stick).
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