“David invited me to his hotel. He asked me to go on tour as his live guitarist. I said no”: Robert Fripp on his landmark David Bowie sessions – and why he didn’t join the legendary singer on tour

Robert Fripp, Brian Eno and David Bowie.

I met David socially in 1972 a couple of times. When we played the first King Crimson show at the Speakeasy in London in April 1969, I was told afterwards that David and [his then-wife] Angie Bowie were jiving.

I also saw the Ziggy Stardust show at the Rainbow Theatre in Finchley when Roxy Music were in support. I was very impressed with the Ziggy show. It was one of the finest rock concerts I’d been to, which I mentioned to David in Berlin during Heroes. His comment was something like, “You saw what we were doing. You saw what was going on. You got it.” It was a perfect show.