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King Crimson affiliates BEAT announce one-off London show for June

Adrian Belew, Danny Carey, Tony Levin and Steve Vai will play their first UK show as BEAT in June

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“It was an awful mistake to overlook his album. But you could be excused for not sticking with it”: Fired by King Crimson, this prog poet assembled a group of A-list colleagues and took them on a trip into the unknown. They got lost – or so it seemed

His only solo release merged Genesis, Greenslade and Soft Machine vibes with an additional experimental edge. But the real beauty is that it couldn’t have been made any other time than the early 70s

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Reese Witherspoon Swaps Elle Woods Pink for Harvard Business School Crimson

"What, like it's hard?"

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“Every working player knows a day will come when something goes wrong with their financial affairs. They’ll need an instrument for that day”: Robert Fripp on the guitars he’s kept, and the one he bought with no intention of playing

The King Crimson mastermind is best known for his ’59 Les Paul Custom, and there’s a reason most of his key instruments have been Gibsons – but he has a few “honorable mentions” too, like the '57 Strat Robin Trower gave him...

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“Robert Fripp is a really diddly-diddly man, all the riff stuff, and that works to an extent. But you need to put that in a context to make it accessible”: The secret to making King Crimson work by Peter Giles, the bassist who helped make it happen

He recalls The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles Giles & Fripp and the Brondesbury Tapes to 21st Century Schizoid Band, making music with his wife and winning athletics medals at 80

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Rece Davis Defends 'College GameDay' Guest Picker Choice for Vanderbilt-Alabama

Theo Von has proven a controversial selection to Crimson Tide fans.

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“A truly virtuosic and deeply musical homage to King Crimson’s legacy – hugely entertaining”: BEAT LIVE captures the joy of Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey reviving and evolving the 80s

The quartet’s relaxed yet enthusiastic approach means they never sound indulgent as they segue between pachyderm-impersonating dissonance and languorous ambience

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King Crimson affiliates Beat release live video for classic Frame By Frame

Starring Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Danny Carey, Frame By Frame comes from the upcoming album Beat Live, out next month

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Harvard president reportedly says he is not considering $500m deal with Trump

Alan Garber told faculty a settlement with the White House is not imminent, according to Harvard’s student newspaper

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“Removing the skits that appeared throughout the original allows the beauty of the strange, baroque pop to shine through”: Giles Giles & Fripp album returns with Brondesbury Tapes demo collection

Recordings rom 1967 and 1968 provide a satisfying overview of pre-Crimson Robert Fripp

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How to leave Crimson in Rogueblox (Non-Rebirth Method)

In RogueBlox, every player will be sent to the Crimson POI if they run out of lives. While every beginner player may enter this location at some point,

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"Carts before horses. Getting excited is somewhat premature." King Crimson manager urges caution over new studio album rumours

Comments from Jakko Jaksyk that suggested a new King Crimson studio album should be handled with caution, says band's manager

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"We're doing a King Crimson studio album": Singer/guitarist Jakko Jakszyk reveals a new album featuring Robert Fripp and other band members

With the passing of founder members and the rerelease of side projects, a new outing from the band itself seemed off the table. Until now

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“Robert Fripp said he wanted to revolutionise rock’n’roll with us. I wasn’t sure, given what I’d just heard. But they were about to throw us out the squat”: The League Of Gentlemen led to Beat-era King Crimson

The band lasted only seven months, and felt like a bad movie for some of those involved – but the musical experiment inspired Fripp to reform King Crimson for their 80s brilliance

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Rejoice! King Crimson are currently recording their first album in more than two decades

King Crimson singer and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk confirms that the band are in the studio

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King Crimson return to studio for first album in more than 20 years

Prog rock legends King Crimson are actively working on their first album since 2003.

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BEAT share live clip of Neal And Jack And Me as they announce new live release

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“The label didn’t want me to do it, but didn’t want to piss me off. We were both famous guitarists so I thought there’d be a lot of interest. I was right all along”: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease

When the Police and King Crimson men got together, the result was two well-received albums and a stack of forgotten material – finally released – that they can’t believe wasn’t used in the 80s

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“Lyric-led, with music that may seem in contrast with the King Crimson work he’s best known for”: Jakko M Jakszyk’s Son Of Glen is a companion piece of sorts to his memoir

True life informs the versatile guitarist’s first post-Crimson solo release, with plenty to pique interest even if it veers away from traditional prog

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“The band had already drifted from its original vision. The group broke up…Somehow we absorbed the fact and kept going”: The story of King Crimson’s remarkable Beat era

What happened when the eternally unpredictable prog machine returned in the 80s with an Anglo-American line-up and delivered Discipline, Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair

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“When are we going to stop with this Pink Floyd stuff and start playing some metal?”: The story of the most ambitious song in death metal history

In 1996, Sweden’s Edge Of Sanity filled an entire album with one winding track, inspired by black metal, melodeath, prog and plenty more. It remains a towering achievement long after the band’s break-up.

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“The biggest challenge was not to come off like Tenacious D. It could easily be interpreted as some form of parody”: How Primus made an album about goblins and rainbows while trying not to mention goblins and rainbows

2017’s The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool’s bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children’s story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon

The Guardian - US

The showdown between Harvard and the White House – day by day

After months of pressure to defend itself, Harvard rejected demands from the Trump administration

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“With deference to everybody in Beat, my function is to amuse myself and hopefully you. I can’t do music from 45 years ago”: Why Bill Bruford demoted himself from the King Crimson, Yes and Genesis league

Bill Bruford retired in 2009 and later sold most of his equipment to Tool’s Danny Carey. Then he found he wasn’t finished on stage – and he’s come back re-energised

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“Every record was a battle… I was listening, like, ‘This is amazing!’ but Robert Fripp was reliving the pain and trying to find his way through that”: What Steven Wilson learned from remixing King Crimson

Admitting that arrogance played a role in accepting the challenge, Wilson was left with an even greater appreciation of Fripp’s achievements

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