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The 10 best King Crimson songs, by Jakko Jakszyk

King Crimson guitarist and singer Jakko Jakszyk picks his 10 favourite tracks by his favourite band

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“The sort of thing which got prog a bad name, but which now seems increasingly bold and ambitious”: 10 essential Greg Lake songs

From King Crimson to ELP and beyond, he left a catalogue of impressive creations from an extraordinary musical journey which included that Christmas song

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He's one of the most technically proficient of all prog rock guitarists, and his guitar parts would take several lifetimes to fully comprehend. Dare you enter the court of the Crimson King, Robert Fripp?

We delve into the mad, brilliant lead phrasing and fearsome alternate picking of one of guitar's true masters

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“Had my mother not had me adopted, would I have ended up in King Crimson?” Jakko Jakszyk discusses his abandoned football and acting ambitions, and the status of Robert Fripp’s band

The amateur impressionist on finding his birth mother then closing communications with her, Stiff Records’ plans to make him a star, and saying the “stupidest thing” to Michael Jackson

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“As a term, ‘prog’ only evolved in the 1990s. And I loathe it. As soon as someone sticks a label on to you, they stop listening”: How Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back for their final resurrection

In 2014, Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back from hiatus – and he was ready to make a “joyous racket”

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Peter Sinfield obituary

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

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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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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

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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

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“I wound up on the bill with them in Malaysia, where I got escorted offstage by police with automatic weapons”: Despite the drama, Joe Satriani still loves Jethro Tull

Guitar maestro professes his love for Ian Anderson’s genius, along with early Yes, ELP and King Crimson

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“We always had so much more in common with bands like Yesand Genesis… we wanted to see how far we could take an idea”: What Blue Öyster Cult thought of being called prog – and what they really thought of the More Cowbell sketch

They may have been called “the thinking man’s metal band” but comparing themselves to ELP, Jethro Tull and King Crimson, they assert there was a lot more progressive thinking going on than many realised

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“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

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"We worked out a way for the whole world to tune in": King Crimson-affiliated act Beat announce global livestream of upcoming Los Angeles show

Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai and Danny Carey are currently on the road playing the music of 80s-era King Crimson

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"It was terrifying being so vulnerable, but it was all or nothing": Louise Patricia Crane's album features three members of King Crimson and Jethro Tulls Ian Anderson – it's also a work of beauty and darkness

Informed by childhood memories, Louise Patricia Crane's new album is an intensely personal dark fantasia

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“There’s a laugh-out-loud moment involving a Bruce Forsyth impression onstage during a King Crimson gig”: Two life stories intertwine in Jakko M Jakszyk’s memoir Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair?

His colourful life and remarkable times feature Sir Richard Attenborough, The Nolan Sisters, Ruud Gullit, Michael Jackson (and Morris Minor And The Majors’ Stutter Rap)

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"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

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The heavenly harmony of the spheres: A beginner's guide to the Mellotron in six essential songs

The official sound of prog, made in Birmingham

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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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“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

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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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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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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

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