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King Crimson

Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, 1995

"KING CRIMSON," says Adrian Belew, "does a brand of music that no-one else does, a sound that no-one else makes." Robert Fripp calls it "the sound of 170 guitarists almost hitting the same chord at the same time."

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