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Interview by Cynthia Rose, Viz, 1980
ROBERT FRIPP is a musician, theoretician, theologian and, as his colleague David Bowie (referred by Fripp as "Mr. B") points out, "probably the man with ...
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Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 13 June 1969
[NOTE: The first two paragraphs of this piece – along with one or two others – appear to bear no relation whatsoever to Mark's piece... ...
The Rolling Stones, King Crimson, Family: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, 10 July 1969
2018 author's introduction: This was the third rock concert filmed by Granada Television for the UK national network in 1968 and 1969, the first two ...
The Rolling Stones et al: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 July 1969
CHRIS WELCH SAYS: 'Somehow the magic worked' ...
King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King (Island ILPS 9111)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 10 October 1969
THE ULTIMATE Album. There is little one can fault with it; the arrangements make masterful use of multi-tracking, compressing and reducing, the standard of playing ...
The Nice, King Crimson: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 25 October 1969
THE NICE are an incredible band. At every one of their concerts there's always something new; something which only the Nice can do. ...
King Crimson, Gypsy: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 5 December 1969
King Crimson Opens Its Rock 'n' Roll Stand ...
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 27 December 1969
THERE ARE CERTAIN problems to be encountered by any band that is consciously avant-garde. In attempting to sound "farout" the musicians inevitably impose on themselves ...
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Sounds, 17 October 1970
ROBERT FRIPP doesn't look like a rock star with those funny little spectacles through which he watches a world that's still to feel the full ...
Report by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 December 1970
IN THE PAST, pop music has taken it for granted that its groups would stay together; when a musician has left a band, or the ...
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 18 March 1971
IGNORING THE TINY VOICE from within that insisted that, having cared for King Crimson not one iota, I would probably not find the work of ...
King Crimson: Zoom Club, Frankfurt
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 24 April 1971
AFTER MORE than a year off the road, King Crimson slid quietly back into public performance last week with a hush-hush four-day stint in Germany. ...
King Crimson Take To The Road!
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
IT'S HARDLY surprising that King Crimson are scared stiff at the prospect of their first British gig, for it will be the first time they've ...
BP Fallon: He can't do our press, he doesn't wear socks
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971
IT WOULD have been so easy and so obvious to give the third degree treatment to one of these hard-sell publicists who daily hog the ...
Jack Bruce, Roy Harper, King Crimson: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971
AFTER THE confusion that reigned at Weeley, it has become quite apparent that you don't need every band that lives, breathes and plugs in to ...
King Crimson/Roy Harper/Jack Bruce: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 September 1971
JUDGING BY THE weather this week, the title of Saturday's free concert in Hyde Park – "Farewell To Summer" – was a little premature. And ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, January 1972
Pete Sinfield is, of course the Bernie Taupin... the Keith Reid... of King Crimson. Together with Robert Fripp he forms the lowest common denominator of ...
King Crimson: Reshuffle At The Court Of The King
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
"WE'VE ALL gone through our various changes and Peter and I came out at different places." ...
King Crimson, Fairport Convention: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 21 March 1972
KING CRIMSON, which performed locally for the first time in two years Sunday afternoon at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, is the very embodiment of ...
King Crimson: Fripp Finds the Answer
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 27 May 1972
...in White magic, coloured candles and a witch called Walli Emlark ...
King Crimson: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 1973
IT'S A ROCK concert evening and the stalls are filling to the accompaniment of music played over the public address system. A review-functionary takes his ...
Under the Influence — This Week: Bill Bruford of King Crimson
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 27 January 1973
JOHN McLAUGHLIN: 'Pete The Poet'. From Extrapolation. Fantastic — well, that whole album is. Very fast, tight bop playing and some great drums from Tony ...
Live Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 24 February 1973
THE MARQUEE MAY be an ace gig as far as groups are concerned but, for audiences, it can be most uncomfortable – particularly when the ...
King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic (Island).
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 10 March 1973
A NICE RECORD of pleasant, middle-of-the-road music which should prove a great favourite with everybody's mum and dad this Easter. Bill Bruford's whistling has improved ...
King Crimson/Claire Hammill: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by 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 ...
King Crimson, Spooky Tooth, the Strawbs: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 3 May 1973
BRITON REVISITED ...
Pete Sinfield Has A Nose For Success
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 May 1973
PETE SINFIELD is a poet, and such men do not abound on the music scene. There is Pete Brown of course, and many a lyricist ...
King Crimson: Lark's Tongue In Aspic (Atlantic SD 7263)
Review by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 5 July 1973
ONE THING you gotta say about Robert Fripp, the auteur behind King Crimson, is that he's ambitious. After perfecting his mellotron-dominated "death of the universe" ...
King Crimson: Latest Shade of Crimson
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 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 ...
King Crimson: Robert Fripp…Super Stud?
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 18 August 1973
"I AM," MUSES Robert Fripp, "already a living legend."The light breeze ruffles his curly locks. He settles back in the plastic garden chair, sips his ...
Robert Fripp: Head, Heart and Hips
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 25 August 1973
ROBERT FRIPP doesn't give many interviews – which is silly because he's a shrewd, witty, and engrossing man who, when he's not sitting on a ...
In the Court of the Crimson King
Profile by Chris Salewicz, Let It Rock, September 1973
KING CRIMSON’S launch in 1969 was a classic case of subliminal hype. From every musical corner that summer, with Teutonic fanfares, new super-groups appeared almost ...
Robert Fripp: The Sexual Athlete
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 1 September 1973
ROBERT FRIPP paused in a virtuoso display of cross-picking on Francisco Tarrega's 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra', the interlude music he'd chosen between the two parts ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, May 1974
ROBERT FRIPP, lead guitarist with English rock King Crimson, conspicuous personality by appearing inconspicuous. Rather than stand when performing, he perches himself on a stool, ...
King Crimson: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 May 1974
NEW YORK: King Crimson command a small but loyal following in the United States, partly, one suspects, because of Robert Fripp's deadpan Englishness but also ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, September 1974
GREG LAKE IS the surrounded L in ELP, the British trio which has brought to the forefront the power of classical music in a rock ...
Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 5 October 1974
THE PREVIOUS two albums by this final King Crimson lineup have never been as hysterically self-conscious in their obvious adventurousness as the first four studio ...
Robert Fripp: Why I Killed the King
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 5 October 1974
KING CRIMSON finally abdicated last week. But the end came with a whimper, an official statement merely commented that the band had "ceased to exist". ...
Uriah Heep: Ex-Crimson Bass Man Seduced
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 22 March 1975
JOHN WETTON JOINS HUMBLE WEALTHY HEEP ...
Interview by Jon Tiven, International Musician & Recording World, June 1975
Fripp's King Crimson brought a new meaning to the word "tight". For a short time the band represented a pinnacle of British rock achievement. Since ...
A Small Mobile Intelligent Independent Double Album???
Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 20 March 1976
King Crimson: A Young Person's Guide To King Crimson (Island) ...
Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, January 1979
"IT'S NOT insecurity, but I always like to I work with other people in groups. I think that's the strongest thing. When you take a ...
King Crimson: Robert Fripp's Chocolate Cake Discipline
Interview by Richard Grabel, Creem, February 1982
In The Court Of The Crimson King, Phase II ...
Robert Fripp: The 21st Century Man Sounds Off
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Record, November 1985
HE BEGAN, by his own admission, tone deaf and with "no sense of rhythm." He is a spit-shined, manicured man whose "best subjects at school ...
Interview by Gene Santoro, Downbeat, December 1986
IN THE decade since he first burst into the big-time music world, guitarist Adrian Belew has persistently challenged and reshaped the boundaries of his instrument. ...
Interview by 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 ...
Robert Wyatt: Invisible Jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, December 1995
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 27 April 2007
Drummer with King Crimson and Bob Dylan ...
Robert Fripp: "I'm a very difficult person to work with"
Interview by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 31 October 2014
Guitarist Robert Fripp influenced David Bowie and Peter Gabriel, but it's only the latest revival of his band King Crimson that has brought out his ...
"A force entirely of itself": Robert Fripp on the difficult legacy of King Crimson
Report and Interview by Jim Farber, The Guardian, 16 March 2022
The complicated and fractious history of the prog-rock titans is explored in revealing new documentary In the Court of the Crimson King. ...
Toby Amies (dir.): In the Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson at 50
Film/DVD/TV Review by Irina Shtreis, Louder Than War, 20 December 2022
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, a documentary by Toby Amies, unveils the "acute suffering" of one of the artiest ...
see also Asia
see also Robert Fripp
see also McDonald and Giles
see also Pete Sinfield
see also UK
see also Greg Lake
see also Jamie Muir
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