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King Crimson/Claire Hammill: Rainbow Theatre, London

Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 24 March 1973

ON SUNDAY night, at that big weird place in Finsbury Park, Messrs. Derek Moss, Bart Brassert, Don Wilton and Rodney Frock most certainly did not qualify for the Golden Walnut Award. That, for people who like sugar in their cheese, means that King Crimson, despite being one down with four to go in injury time, socked it to us hypercritical London faces with force, verve, and a nice line in shiny white suits.

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