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The 10 best King Crimson songs, by Jakko Jakszyk

King Crimson guitarist and singer Jakko Jakszyk picks his 10 favourite tracks by his favourite band

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“The sort of thing which got prog a bad name, but which now seems increasingly bold and ambitious”: 10 essential Greg Lake songs

From King Crimson to ELP and beyond, he left a catalogue of impressive creations from an extraordinary musical journey which included that Christmas song

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“As a term, ‘prog’ only evolved in the 1990s. And I loathe it. As soon as someone sticks a label on to you, they stop listening”: How Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back for their final resurrection

In 2014, Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back from hiatus – and he was ready to make a “joyous racket”

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“It dishonors that brand to say, ‘Now we’re King Crimson.’ But we do have the ability to say, ‘Look, this is legitimate – half of the band is onstage here”: Adrian Belew, Steve Vai and Tony Levin on how they made Beat – with Robert Fripp’s blessing

Performing material from King Crimson's trailblazing '80s oeuvre, Beat finds three kings of the strings with the peerless Danny Carey pushing the envelope and Steve Vai doing Robert Fripp proud

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Robert Fripp and Carl Palmer lead tributes to Pete Sinfield who has died, aged 80

King Crimson and ELP producer and lyricist Pete Sinfield sadly died on Thursday, aged 80

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Alabama unveils $47 million Crimson Reserve golf training facility: ‘It’s the talk of college golf’

"We hear the word 'sick' a lot."

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“There’s a laugh-out-loud moment involving a Bruce Forsyth impression onstage during a King Crimson gig”: Two life stories intertwine in Jakko M Jakszyk’s memoir Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair?

His colourful life and remarkable times feature Sir Richard Attenborough, The Nolan Sisters, Ruud Gullit, Michael Jackson (and Morris Minor And The Majors’ Stutter Rap)

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"I remember listening back to that and thinking: What the hellis this?!": Behind the scenes at the recording of King Crimson's trailblazing In The Court Of The Crimson King

Tales of the first true progressive rock album, from two of the men who made it

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“It was extremely hard to deal with. But if you impose incredibly hard obstacles to making something, and people stay in the room, you might just get there”: The radical neutrality that gave birth to King Crimson’s Red

Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, John Wetton and guests struggled to deliver the 1974 album that, for many years, remained severely underrated

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“Boz would always have a bottle of Smirnoff in his bass case”: The epic life and high times of Bad Company bassist Boz Burrell, rock’n’roll’s ultimate cool dude

Boz Burrell bought effortless cool to King Crimson and Bad Company and died the way he lived – on his own terms

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“I would call our approach organized chaos, but it drove Allan Holdsworth up the wall”: John Wetton has been the bass force behind a peak-period King Crimson lineup and two prog rock supergroups

A veteran of one of King Crimson’s classic lineups, John Wetton’s amazing career took him through a host of British prog bands

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“The aim was to be ‘the best group in the world’… this easily becomes confused with ‘the most successful group in the world,’ at which point the music may get lost”: Robert Fripp’s observation of King Crimson

Ever wondered what the band is all about? Here are several ways of approaching the question, suggested by the man who’s done the most thinking about it

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“Stupefying seat-of-the-pants stuff nicely served by a crisp, revelatory sound mix… and ripe for reappraisal”: King Crimson’s Sheltering Skies

1982 live set, previously part-released as The Noise, finds the post-Discipline line-up repurposing prog

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Dolly Parton Says She’d Duet With Beyoncé Live, But Defends The CMA Awards After Nomination Snub

“Beyoncé is a country girl in Texas and Louisiana, so she grew up with that base. It wasn’t like she just appeared out of nowhere.” The post Dolly Parton Says She’d Duet With Beyoncé Live, But Defends The CMA Awards After Nomination Snub first appeared on Bored Panda.

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“I acknowledged my masochistic side… my self-destructive nature peaked”: Louise Patricia Crane can’t escape her dark aspect, so she’s brought it into the light on her new album

Former The Eden House vocalist was determined to be brutally honest about herself on Netherworld, with assistance from Jakko Jakszyk and Ian Anderson

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“It was early days for the band. We’d gone out on a limb… it was by no means certain that the response would be positive”: Genesis’ early fears for Foxtrot

Barely planned, recorded in fits and starts and complete with one of King Crimson’s Mellotron, their 1972 album was, they believe, the moment they began to be taken seriously

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“Robert Fripp was triggering sounds and I just responded… I told him I was feeling more comfortable, and he said: ‘You mean like you’re no longer being auditioned?’”: The series of incidents that led to Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins’ A Scarcity Of Miracles

The reunion of two bandmates who’d fallen out badly in the 70s, combined with the energy of a lifelong fan, resulted in a stunning album that assembled the leading lights of Crimson’s final era

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“We were trying to get to that level of the music we really loved… It’s always slightly out of reach, but my God, you can have fun trying to get there”: Tears For Fears on their mystical purpose

A King Crimson show in 1981 kickstarted the duo’s partnership, powered by all kinds of prog and never completely destroyed by their battles

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“Rory Gallagher’s a saint in my house. There’s even a saintly painting of him above where I hang my guitar”: Meet Louise Patricia Crane, the solo-loving songwriter, seeking new prog sounds with King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk

Netherworld is the sound of Crane and producer Jakszyk testing the boundaries of where guitar can go, in the company of special guests Tony Levin, Gary Husband and Ian Anderson

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“Even with tensions rife, this music showcases the breathtaking musical telepathy they’d developed”: The best King Crimson songs of the 1970s

They were only around for half of the decade before splitting – but left an indelible mark with six albums of bold, visionary work

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“All I can remember was Robert Fripp giving up completely, saying, ‘There’s no hope’”: King Crimson’s torturous journey through fourth album Islands – and its 30-year fallout

How King Crimson fractured, regrouped and fractured again as they made 1971 album Islands

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King Crimson 1982 France concert to be released on vinyl and CD in September

King Crison's Sheltering Skies (Live in Fréjus, August 27th 1982) is the very first time a live album from the 1980s line-up has been released on vinyl

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Inside the small-town poker game crashed by Bill Gates: ‘Bill smelled the bulls**t on the cattle rancher’

The billionaire joined a group of regular workers at Wyoming Fossils in Kemmerer on Monday for a $600 game of Texas hold ’em

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Things are hotting up in the Worcestershire kitchen of Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp and Toyah's Sunday Lunch returns with a blast through the Stooges' Search And Destroy

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“They stuck me in contraptions to make sure he wouldn’t get decapitated”: Comic artist Mark Buckingham on being Peter Gabriel’s stunt double for Sledgehammer

Fables, Hellblazer and Miracleman creative’s prog journey includes ELO, Stackridge, IQ, Magenta, all the King Crimson he can buy… and The Wombles

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