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England (1969 – 1974, 1981 – 1984, 1994 – present)

King Crimson is a progressive rock group from England formed in 1969 by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles. Though originally an all-British musical group, later members have included a number of Americans, most notably Adrian Belew, and Tony Levin. The name “King Crimson” was coined by Peter Sinfield as a synonym for Beelzebub, prince of demons.

King Crimson’s debut album was In the Court of the Crimson King. The first major success of the new genre of progressive rock, many bands that would come to dominate ‘prog’ in the 1970s first sought to emulate In the Court of the Crimson King, including Genesis, The Alan Parsons Project, and later Rush.

The lineup of King Crimson has at times changed drastically from album to album. Original lead singer and bassist Greg Lake left the group - as did lyricist Peter Sinfield - and went on to fame with Emerson, Lake & Palmer in 1970, replaced by Gordon Haskell, Boz Burrell, and, briefly, Jon Anderson of Yes. Also from Yes came drummer Bill Bruford, who joined King Crimson in 1972 and became one of the more enduring members. For the next three years, Bruford and Fripp were joined by future Asia frontman John Wetton. With comparatively few additional musicians, these mid-1970s albums and performances showed a more raw and stylistically focused - though still improvisational - King Crimson. In 1974 the band split temporarily.

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2	21st Century Schizoid Man	1,423
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4	The Court of the Crimson King	968
5	Moonchild	839
6	Starless	783
7	Red	763
8	Fallen Angel	685
9	One More Red Nightmare	597
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11	Elephant Talk	454
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MistahJohnson

Wow, we can't even vote on their pictures...

Thursday evening
promiscuite

Well I can understand that fripp wants Kc ou of last.fm : http://estherlim.visibli.com/share/fE0BZw

Thursday afternoon
bjeggleston

lizard is my fav...happy family one hand clap

Thursday morning
cogsncogs

Wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat wondering if Fripp is in my living room deleting KC album art, pics and music files from my PC...

Wednesday evening
pepganzo

Co' sta storia delle copertine e delle immagini fripp ha rotto un po'.

Wednesday afternoon
FeralWrath

So Fripp's hating that whole last.fm stuff, deleting pix and album art, we got it. But then why the frick are there still pix and album arts on his solo page? Doesn't look consequent to me.

Monday afternoon
Aevitasm

'The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads' <- great live album btw

Sunday morning
Aevitasm

LOL @ exSpectacularrr. keep talking bro

Sunday morning
franekks

In my opinion, "In The Court Of The Crimson King" is the best album ever :)

Saturday morning
Dustijn

I'm actually quite fond of "The Talking Heads."

Saturday morning
Kasp4rius

Telling someone their opinion is void, because of one artist they listen to, is really dumb.

last week
exSpectacularrr

I love you King Crimson, but you are screwing up my radio. Despite being a favorite band of mine for 17+ years, I am thoroughly revolted by all the crap that you put into my radio mix: "Yes" (vomit), "ELP" (gross), "Gentle Giant" (embarrassing), "prog-rock" in general (*UGH*), Adrian Belew's super-cheesy solo work. And today, the latest atrocity: "The Talking Heads." AGGGHHH. Man, I freaking hate that band. With a passionate intensity that gives me red shooting pains. They're almost as hideous as the worst fracking band of all time, REM. *Aggghhh.* Artsy, soulless, neutered fart "rock" for the desperately vapid suburbs, all of that crap. The musical equivalent of a watercolor painting of a parasol drifting in a canoe, hung over pastel-pinstriped wallpaper in a strip-mall dentist's waiting room, replete with tan pleather chairs. I'd sooner listen to the Beatles than any of that garbage. And I freaking can't stand the Beatles. Okay -- enough ranting to no one for one day. /rant

last week
vadalsa

круто.

last week
SlavicMetalhead

FAIL!

12 days ago
VinnyMcFly

Fripp > Last.fm

13 days ago
Aevitasm

"If you want the album cover you can always buy the record." good advice genius

13 days ago
niQboy

If you do a search with the word "last.fm" you can find a few more entries http://www.dgmlive.com/search_archive.htm?Word_Keyword=last.fm&Day=Day&Month=Month&Year=Year&search=SEARCH+WORD

14 days ago
cicerometallica

We R the album covers????

15 days ago
euquerosuamae

FRIPP WE ♥ U

15 days ago
niQboy

I've read a few of his journal entries regarding last.fm, but didn't manage to find those screenshots, what a shame! Googling yielded no results either.

15 days ago

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