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Natasha Scharf

“Our producer chopped down the songs to four minutes… the originals were much longer and stretched out”: King Crimson fan and Saxon vocalist Biff Byford narrowly missed out on being a prog musician

Biff Byford and Robert Fripp.

In 2019 Saxon vocalist Biff Byford explained that if he’d had his way, the NWOBHM giants could have been a prog band, and how the music of King Crimson blew him away – and still plays a role in his work today.


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