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Peter Sinfield obituary

Lyricist, record producer and co-founder of the prog rock band King Crimson

The Guardian - UK

“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

Guitar World

We say farewell to Fish on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Tony Levin, Jethro Tull, BEAT, Dream Theater, Public Service Broadcasting, Rosalie Cunningham, Beardfish, Vincent Cavanagh and more...

Louder

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Robert Fripp and Carl Palmer lead tributes to Pete Sinfield who has died, aged 80

King Crimson and ELP producer and lyricist Pete Sinfield sadly died on Thursday, aged 80

Louder

Peter Sinfield, lyricist for King Crimson, Céline Dion and more, dies aged 80

Versatile poet and music producer co-founded King Crimson, produced Roxy Music’s debut album and had a long partnership with Greg Lake

The Guardian - UK

“I’ve never played a barre chord in my life. I hate them. You don’t need more than two or three notes to express a chord”: Andy Summers on his “abstracted instrumental” collabs with Robert Fripp, his dream pedalboard, and what he learned from Béla Bartók

It was the ’80s and Andy Summers was living the dream as guitar culture grew, and his side-project with King Crimson's mad-genius Fripp gave him the opportunity to work his art-house cinema influences into music

Guitar World

It's all gone spectacularly Halloween-shaped in the Fripp-Willcox household

Watch aghast as Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp wrestle David Bowie's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) into the grave

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“Pete Townshend said, ‘I wish I could play like you.’ I thought, ‘I wish I could come up with the three chords you take to the bank!’” How Caleb Quaye became Elton John’s go-to guitarist – and took over Jimmy Page’s session work

He was one of the 1970s’ most successful session players – but the Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney collaborator is glad he bowed out in the ‘80s

Guitar World

"I remember listening back to that and thinking: What the hellis this?!": Behind the scenes at the recording of King Crimson's trailblazing In The Court Of The Crimson King

Tales of the first true progressive rock album, from two of the men who made it

Louder

“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

Louder

“Boz would always have a bottle of Smirnoff in his bass case”: The epic life and high times of Bad Company bassist Boz Burrell, rock’n’roll’s ultimate cool dude

Boz Burrell bought effortless cool to King Crimson and Bad Company and died the way he lived – on his own terms

Louder

“The aim was to be ‘the best group in the world’… this easily becomes confused with ‘the most successful group in the world,’ at which point the music may get lost”: Robert Fripp’s observation of King Crimson

Ever wondered what the band is all about? Here are several ways of approaching the question, suggested by the man who’s done the most thinking about it

Louder

“Stupefying seat-of-the-pants stuff nicely served by a crisp, revelatory sound mix… and ripe for reappraisal”: King Crimson’s Sheltering Skies

1982 live set, previously part-released as The Noise, finds the post-Discipline line-up repurposing prog

Louder

“You can rehearse until you're blue in the face, but once you hit the stage and the lights go out, all bets are off”: Steve Vai and Adrian Belew tackle King Crimson classics as their much-anticipated Beat tour kicks off

The pair have joined forces with Tony Levin and Danny Carey to perform King Crimson’s 1980s albums across a sprawling 65-date tour

Guitar World

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“I knew what each word meant, and it described exactly from moment to moment what that day was about.” The true inspiration behind David Bowie's 'Heroes' has been revealed

'Heroes' documents a special day during Bowie's Berlin residency

Louder

"A tightly convoluted blend of NY postpunk, art-rock and fusion": 80s' King Crimson shine brightly on Sheltering Skies

Enter the post-prog maelstrom

Louder

“Robert Fripp was triggering sounds and I just responded… I told him I was feeling more comfortable, and he said: ‘You mean like you’re no longer being auditioned?’”: The series of incidents that led to Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins’ A Scarcity Of Miracles

The reunion of two bandmates who’d fallen out badly in the 70s, combined with the energy of a lifelong fan, resulted in a stunning album that assembled the leading lights of Crimson’s final era

Guitar World

“We got together in someone's apartment in the Village and were jamming, trying to see what we could come up with”: Andy Summers on his longstanding relationship with Robert Fripp – and their surprise new collab album

Summers and Fripp have known each other since childhood and decided to record three albums' worth of material back in the '80s after they both achieved success with their respective bands

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“He was a sort of eccentric. He smoked a pipe while he recorded. We got there, and then we just started working things out”: Andy Summers on his surprise ‘new’ collab album with Robert Fripp

Andy Summers on his surprise new collab album with Robert Fripp

Louder

Robert Fripp, Mike Portnoy, Pat Mastelotto and more guest on new Tony Levin album

King Crimson and Peter Gabriel bassist Tony Levin will release Bringing It Down To The Bass in September

Metal Hammer

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp release footage of Enter Sandman filmed at Isle Of Wight festival

They just won't stop, will they?

Louder

“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

Louder

David Sylvian's career-spanning Everything And Nothing gets first ever vinyl release

David Sylvian's Everything And Nothing features collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp and Mick Karn as well as tracks by Japan and Rain Tree Crow

Louder

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers might have based their entire career on it": Steven Wilson's 20 favourite British rock albums

Porcupine Tree mainman, solo star and prog remix king Steven Wilson on 20 British albums that blew his mind

Louder

“All I can remember was Robert Fripp giving up completely, saying, ‘There’s no hope’”: King Crimson’s torturous journey through fourth album Islands – and its 30-year fallout

How King Crimson fractured, regrouped and fractured again as they made 1971 album Islands

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