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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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“I just didn’t feel I could pull off the things Peter Gabriel did. I said: ‘I’ll give it a go but don’t expect me to wear costumes!’” Phil Collins’ first show as Genesis frontman

It took the revamped band months of worry off stage but just half an hour of fun on stage to secure their future in 1976

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Bill Bruford surprises fans with live performance at John Wetton Tribute show

Bruford appeared alongside Roger Chapman, Rick Wakeman, Annie Haslam, Steve Hackett and more

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"It allows me to have a much broader palette": Watch Bill Bruford introduce TV viewers to electronic drums back in 1985

Presenter Lesley Judd gets up close and personal with then-King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford as he introduces the drum kit of the future

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“A reunion is something I'm absolutely resistant to”: how Yes weathered a decade of turmoil to return with their finest album in years

Yes men Steve Howe and Jon Davison look back at the band’s turbulent recent history – and what the future may hold

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Remembering the late Alan White

Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to the former John Lennon and Yes drummer Alan White, who sadly died in 2022

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Psychedelic projections, a spinning mannequin head and the music of the future: Is this peak Yes?

Watch Yes perform Yours Is No Disgrace and I've Seen All Good People on cult German TV show Beat-Club in 1971

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Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Album Of The Week Club review

The self-titled Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is the album from the version of Yes that wasn’t technically Yes at all

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U.K.'s Curtain Call gets remaster and worldwide release

U.K.'s Curtain Call saw Eddie Jobson reunite with the late John Wetton and play both U.K. albums live

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"I’ve been booted out of King Crimson about three times": Bill Bruford on a life in music

From Yes and King Crimson to UK and Earthworks, the highly respected drummer with an extremely distinctive sound talks developing a thick skin, suffering for his art and why he doesn’t like looking backwards.

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Watch King Crimson play blistering versions of Larks Tongues In Aspic Part Two and Easy Money

The latest footage to emerge from the Midnight Special archive features King Crimson in 1973 at their most fierce

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Alan White obituary

Drummer of the progressive rock group Yes who also played on John Lennon’s Imagine and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass

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"It's got some good stuff on it." Tony Banks revisits the classic Genesis live album Seconds Out

"It's got some good stuff on it," says a typically understated Tony Banks, on Genesis's Seconds Out

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