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The silencing of The Lamb... Genesis are on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now

Plus Roy Harper, Hawkwind, Jeff Wayne, Jakko Jakszyk, Green Carnation, Ihlo, Discipline, Chimpan A, Kindred Spirit and loads more...

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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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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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“After King Crimson ended there was a kind of inertia. I’d lost confidence musically, like, ‘Who am I now?’”: Jakko Jakszyk’s return with solo album Son Of Glen

The guitarist/vocalist found his way back to music with help from his partner Louise Patricia Crane. Now he has several projects brewing, including Crimson-related material

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“I don’t think he ever got over being fired from King Crimson… but he went on to bigger, more financially successful things”: Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to ELP, Roxy Music and many others

Lyricist, art director, producer and all-round creative who aimed to enlighten, provoke or stir died in November 2024 without being fully aware of what he’d achieved

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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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“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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"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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Kate Bush graces the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Tony Banks, John Lees Barclay James Harvest, Opeth, Phil Manzanera, Frost*, Von Hertzen Brothers, Stuckfish, Haze and more

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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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October's An Evening With Jakko Jakszyk to be hosted by comedian Stewart Lee

An Evening With Jakko Jakszyk takes place at West Hampstead Arts Club on October 11

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“I acknowledged my masochistic side… my self-destructive nature peaked”: Louise Patricia Crane can’t escape her dark aspect, so she’s brought it into the light on her new album

Former The Eden House vocalist was determined to be brutally honest about herself on Netherworld, with assistance from Jakko Jakszyk and Ian Anderson

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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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Jakko Jakszyk announces intimate An Evening With show for October 11

Prog readers have chance to get limited number of tickets for the event at West Hampstead Arts Club

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“Rory Gallagher’s a saint in my house. There’s even a saintly painting of him above where I hang my guitar”: Meet Louise Patricia Crane, the solo-loving songwriter, seeking new prog sounds with King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk

Netherworld is the sound of Crane and producer Jakszyk testing the boundaries of where guitar can go, in the company of special guests Tony Levin, Gary Husband and Ian Anderson

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“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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King Crimson's Jakko Jakszyk announces autobiogaphy

Jakko Jakszyk will release autobiography Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? in October

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Louise Patricia Crane evokes childhood memories with video for new single Celestial Dust

Prog singer songwriter Louise Patricia Crane will release her new solo album Netherworld in June

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Ian Anderson features on new Louise Patricia Crane single Tiny Bard

Prog singer songwriter Louise Patricia Crane will release her new solo album Netherworld in June

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Louise Patricia Crane details her brand new album Netherworld

Prog singer songwriter Louise Patricia Crane will release her new solo album Netherworld in June

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Listen to Jakko Jakszyk and Mel Collins' new version of I Talk To The Wind

An all-star reimaging of King Crimson's debut album, Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King, to be released in April

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Ace new prog music you must hear from Wilson/Wakeman, Moon Safari, Louise Patricia Crane and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

The week's best new prog music to check out from Mariusz Duda, Storm Deva, Bjørkø, Unprocessed and more...

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Louise Patricia Crane releases 'love letter' cover of King Crimson's Ladies Of The Road

Prog singer singwriter Louise Patricia Crane will release her new solo album next Spring

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“I speak like I do because I spent years trying to impersonate Vivian Stanshall”: Comedian and musician Ade Edmondson’s prog record collection

The Young Ones and Bottom star fronted The Bad Shepherds with inspirations including the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Jethro Tull, Focus, Alex Harvey and a stack of folk influences

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