“Giles Giles & Fripp are three young men with enough musical talent for a whole gang,” screamed the advert for their sole album, The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp.
Emerging from Bournemouth, brothers Peter and Michael Giles and ‘singing organist’ Robert Fripp brought their idiosyncratic take on popular music. Relocated to Brondesbury in north London, the trio landed a contract with Decca’s progressive imprint, Deram, with the demos they had been making in their flat.
