Robert Fripp: The Small Mobile Intelligent Pest Of Rock 'N' Roll
Don Snowden, LA Reader, 19 August 1979
IT SEEMS peculiarly appropriate that, on my arrival at Polydor Records' West Coast offices on Sunset Boulevard, virtually everyone is engaged in a frantic search for a safety pin to keep the cuffs of Robert Fripp's blue pinstripe pants from tumbling down over his shoes.
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