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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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"I've got my new band together now. I've got the Yes that I wanted": After half a century of Yes music, Jon Anderson talks about everything, from football to fairies

Fronting Yes he was one of the architects of prog rock, and now he fronts his own band. But that’s only part of his wondrous story

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“An impressive overview of his restless curiosity and hunger”: Bill Bruford’s Winterfold & Summerfold Years 3-disc box set

Jazz, fusion, and a dash of muzak from the drummer’s electronic and acoustic experiments from 1977 to 2007

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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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“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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Bill Bruford comes out of retirement to join Pete Roth Trio

Having retired from live and recorded performance on 2009, Bill Bruford returns to live music with jazz band Pete Roth Trio

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“Our producer played the intro to Nevermore and I was just blown away”: How U.K. became Witherfall guitarist Jake Dreyer’s prog heroes

Astonished by the world of Allan Holdsworth and Bill Bruford in particular, he’s happy to explain how you’ll hear the supergroup in his own band’s material

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“They just looked at each other like, ‘What the hell are we doing with this bass player?’” The late Mick Karn recalls his first tour with David Torn and Bill Bruford

Few electric bassists have a style as singular and strong as Japan’s fretless sorcerer

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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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“I was absolutely horrified when I saw the box set. I went ballistic! Explain to your readers I didn’t know about that”: Allan Holdsworth’s life in music

The influential guitarist died days after the release of 12-disc collection The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever! – but ahead of the launch he had a lot to say about that and many other things

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“It’s like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. We can’t live with each other and we can’t live without each other”: the tangled history of Rick Wakeman and Yes

Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman’s history with Yes goes back to the early 70s – but there have been plenty of bumps along the way

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“Here was fresh music, well-presented in high quality, and I didn’t have to sit around in a rehearsal room for months deciding on the sandwich order”: The joy and pain of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe’s only album

United under Jon Anderson’s vision, four ex Yes members regrouped to make the 1989 record that looked both forward and backward

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70s prog rockers Absolute Elsewhere finally release second album Playground

Absolute Elswhere recorded second album Playground in 1976 but the arrival of punk rock left it languishing in the vaults

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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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The story of King Crimson's Red is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus BEAT, Anthony Phillips, Hawkwind, The Tangent, SIx By Six, Whom Gods Destroy, Trifecta and loads more...

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“My discipline is doing what needs to be done, whether you like it or not… Robert decides what to do and Fripp has to go and do it”: How to survive over 50 years of King Crimson, by the only person who’s been there

Serious leader of a prog behemoth, hugely influential guitarist, half of the Toyah & Robert party band… who is the real Robert Fripp? He offers some tantalising hints

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“The producer was able to see through me to be like, ‘You don’t sound like you believe any of this.’ I love that psychology”: District 97’s Leslie Hunt took singing lessons before she tracked Stay For The Ending

Chicago outfit’s prog and pop balancing act benefitted from listening to their fans – and Bill Bruford

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“I’m 16 and they were my heroes… They started to laugh because I was also playing the echo parts. I didn’t know they were a special effect”: Obsessive attention to detail was always Eddie Jobson’s superpower

From a backstage performance for Curved Air to being dragged onstage by Frank Zappa and out-complicating King Crimson, the UK violinist has managed to ignore distractions from making music

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"I call Bill Bruford and blurt out 'how would you like to be in a rock band again?' Bill says, 'And do what? Sit around a luggage carousel all day?' But he gave us his blessing." Adrian Belew opens up on the formation of Beat

Adrian Belew has formed Beat with Tony Levin, Danny Carey and Steve Vai to perform King Crimson's 80s reportoire

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“We were really screwing with the system, removing applause from live tracks to sound like studio tracks – the exact opposite of what people do today”: How King Crimson made stealth live album Starless And Bible Black

King Crimson’s 1974 ”excruciating, teeth-pullingly difficult” album Starless And Bible Black sowed the seeds of their looming breakup

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“You pick five interesting guys, lock them in a room together… and if they make an album without actually killing each other first, it will at least be an interesting album”: How King Crimson made Larks’ Tongues in Aspic

The 1973 release steered a new line-up into uncharted waters, resulting in a work that could only have been made by a band who were “prepared to jump off the cliff”

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“By the time I swapped over the tapes I knew I was in the stinky brown stuff. Somebody said, ‘God help us’ … the budget for the cover was cut back”: How Rick Wakeman proved everyone wrong with The Six Wives of Henry VIII

His 1973 debut solo album was roundly hated by label bosses and reviewers – but it became a coffee-table classic and gave him freedom from Yes

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“I was interested in being on stage with people who are not only comfortable with not knowing what’s going to happen next, but would rather not know”: Bill Bruford’s journey through jazz and prog

The groundbreaking drummer’s bid to find a balance between Yes, King Crimson and Genesis on one hand, and his Earthworks project on the other

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Bruford's One Of A Kind to get vinyl reissue

Bill Bruford's 1979 album with Bruford, One Of A Kind, to be released on vinyl in November

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