Toyah and Robert Fripp make triumphant return to Sunday Lunch action Toyah and Robert cover the Rolling Stones and the world becomes a better place Louder · Aug 31
“David invited me to his hotel. He asked me to go on tour as his live guitarist. I said no”: Robert Fripp on his landmark David Bowie sessions – and why he didn’t join the legendary singer on tour When David Bowie needed a unique guitar voice for Heroes, he called Robert Fripp. In his own words, the King Crimson founder recalls those heady days “by the Wall” Guitar World · Aug 26
David Bowie’s guitarists on what it was like to play with the Thin White Duke: “I had just come from working with Frank Zappa for a year, and Frank was very directive. David was entirely the opposite” 10 years after Bowie's death, Adrian Belew, Peter Frampton, Carlos Alomar and other guitar-slinging comrades-in-arms recall high times alongside the master Guitar World · Aug 19
Steve Vai and Adrian Belew announce new BEAT tour, with lineup change A new member has been drafted in as the King Crimson offshoot announce more US and Canadian dates Guitar World · Aug 5
“If he felt the bass parts while he was singing, it could only be a matter of time before it crept down from his head into his fingers”: How Boz Burrell saved King Crimson when Robert Fripp had lost hope If someone hadn’t left a bass behind in the band’s rehearsal room, leading to a change of role for their newly-hired singer, their career might well have ended before 1971’s Islands Louder · Aug 1
“I asked David, ‘Any suggestions?’ He said, ‘Think Ritchie Blackmore.’ I didn’t expect that”: When David Bowie asked Robert Fripp to play like a Deep Purple legend Fripp had made magical contributions to Bowie's masterpiece, Heroes, just a few years earlier – but this time the legend had something very different in mind… Guitar World · Jul 20
“We had no money, no management, and we’d been dropped by the label. But when we plugged in and played, it was the most magnificent thing”: Midge Ure’s prog moments with Ultravox, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush, Jethro Tull and, indirectly, Steven Wilson Taking the same attitude to keyboards that he’d first taken to guitar, he regards his best 80s work as “synth prog” – and it’s difficult to disagree Louder · Jul 14
King Crimson announce listening sessions in conjunction with London's Polygon Portal King Crimson will release a newly mixed version of 1971's Islands on CD and Blu-ray and on vinyl in September Louder · Jun 9
"You have to go and live in London for seven years. You'll be rejected 99 times out of a hundred." Watch Robert Fripp give a hopeful young musician some unflinching truth in 1985 An insight into the place King Crimson's Robert Fripp calls the "centre of the universe" Louder · Jun 3
The nation rejoices as a corpse-painted Robert Fripp sings in the latest edition of Robert and Toyah's Sunday Lunch Watch national treasures Robert and Toyah perform Rock And Roll All Nite by Kiss Louder · Jun 1
"I thought: 'Can I even play this stuff?' Y'know, a sixty-five-year-old Steve Vai taking on Robert Fripp at thirty-five." Steve Vai on the challenge of playing King Crimson with BEAT – and the one change he's made In 2024, four monster instrumentalists teamed up to play music from three killer King Crimson albums – and they're finally coming to Europe Louder · May 28
‘What are you doing shaving my balls?!’: Rockstar suffers heart attack, left baffled as orderly gives him totally shorn scrotum 21st century hairless man. We Got This Covered · May 25
“Sounds of the universe crying”: This pop icon’s label wanted a pop solo album. He gave them a prog record instead. Which is why they suppressed it for three years Maybe the fact that King Crimson’s Robert Fripp had been hired to produce and play on the 1977 project was enough to scare the suits Louder · May 1
"It was one of the most emotional performances I've ever done. I was in tears." How David Bowie's Heroes became his most life-changing single Although David Bowie's Berlin-period anthem Heroes was initially something ofacommercial failure, it became a classic for the ages Louder · Apr 17
Louder · Mar 30 Toyah and Robert Fripp return with their most disturbing Sunday Lunch video yet Quick! Somebody fetch the bug spray!
Guitar World · Mar 23 “I discovered that it would be harder to try to replicate his tone than anybody else”: Steve Vai has followed in the footsteps of many guitar greats – this was the hardest one to nail He’s filled the shoes of Eddie Van Halen and Robert Fripp, but Vai says this particular gig was even harder
Louder · Feb 13 “It would be interesting to revisit some of the songs, but it’s never going to happen. I don’t know who isn’t talking to who these days”: Judy Dyble was always amazed at the quality of her collaborators In 2018, Fairport Convention’s first female vocalist found herself inspired by a trapped rainbow, a bad Elvis impersonator and her early work with Giles, Giles and Fripp
Guitar World · Feb 9 “I asked for a cash discount. The shop assistant said, ‘I could phone up Eric Clapton and he’d come and buy it’”: Robert Fripp’s life in three guitars The King Crimson founder has enjoyed the company of all kinds of guitars in his time –from the good, bad to the ugly – but these are the three that have meant the most to him
Guitar World · Jan 16 “Here’s a diary entry from July 24, 1974: ‘Argument with Bill Bruford. Bill says, ‘They might as well get a session guitarist’”: The making of Red, the album that pushed King Crimson to the brink Robert Fripp digs into his long-unopened personal diaries with Guitar World as he shares the story of the relentlessly heavy and ambitious 1974 prog classic
Louder · Jan 9 “If you’re talking dazzling sleight of mind, radical ideas and a willingness to create shock-art for the masses, there was no one more brilliant”: Revisiting David Bowie’s career from a prog perspective Beyond his work with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman and others, plus comparisons to Rush, ELP and krautrock, a commitment to audacious experimentation ran through the true icon’s entire life
Guitar World · Dec 30, 2025 “I saw a recent video on YouTube on the 10 precursors to heavy metal, and Schizoid Man wasn’t among them. That’s absurd”: Robert Fripp explains how King Crimson paved the way for heavy metal Robert Fripp says the band doesn't get enough credit for its hard-hitting groundwork
Guitar World · Dec 13, 2025 “Robert said, ‘Would you be prepared to play bass?’ And I thought, ‘Four strings, six strings... what could be the problem?’”: Greg Lake started out as a guitarist – before being convinced by Robert Fripp to switch to bass when joining King Crimson Lake went on to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer – ELP – with keyboardist Keith Emerson and drummer Carl Palmer, creating one of rock’s first super-groups
Louder · Dec 10, 2025 “It was my first studio job. I wiped a Robert Fripp guitar section. He wasn’t happy”: A world-class producer recalls shaky start to his career After the baptism of fire that was King Crimson’s Lizard, he worked on Tangerine Dream’s Rubycon, Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage and dozens of Van Morrison records
Louder · Nov 30, 2025 Toyah and Robert Fripp scale bizarre new heights in latest Sunday Lunch video Oh no! Toyah is trapped in a birdcage!
Louder · Nov 14, 2025 “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