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"The Queen Mother asked us to play something on the Moog. She was really cute": PFM on brushes with royalty, spaghetti with Aerosmith, and how to annoy America

Premiata Forneria Marconi, aka PFM, remain one of the great trailblazers of European prog rock

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“Robert Fripp said he wanted to revolutionise rock’n’roll with us. I wasn’t sure, given what I’d just heard. But they were about to throw us out the squat”: The League Of Gentlemen led to Beat-era King Crimson

The band lasted only seven months, and felt like a bad movie for some of those involved – but the musical experiment inspired Fripp to reform King Crimson for their 80s brilliance

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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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“The label didn’t want me to do it, but didn’t want to piss me off. We were both famous guitarists so I thought there’d be a lot of interest. I was right all along”: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease

When the Police and King Crimson men got together, the result was two well-received albums and a stack of forgotten material – finally released – that they can’t believe wasn’t used in the 80s

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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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“Lyric-led, with music that may seem in contrast with the King Crimson work he’s best known for”: Jakko M Jakszyk’s Son Of Glen is a companion piece of sorts to his memoir

True life informs the versatile guitarist’s first post-Crimson solo release, with plenty to pique interest even if it veers away from traditional prog

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Mick Ralphs obituary

Skilful guitarist and songwriter with the bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company

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Bad Company’s Mick Ralphs dies aged 81

A statement on the band’s official website announced the news.

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“The band had already drifted from its original vision. The group broke up…Somehow we absorbed the fact and kept going”: The story of King Crimson’s remarkable Beat era

What happened when the eternally unpredictable prog machine returned in the 80s with an Anglo-American line-up and delivered Discipline, Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair

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“There were arguments. But they weren’t personal – they were musical. They helped make it what it is”: How Yes defined themselves with Fragile, before success went to their heads

The arrival of Rick Wakeman, the freedom to be adventurous and the discovery of Roger Dean led to the creation of a prog landmark in 1971

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Watch pro-shot video of a full King Crimson set from Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai and Danny Carey

The 100-minute video features pro-shot, multi-camera footage of BEAT playing highlights from King Crimson's eighties catalogue

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“In 1989 I paid a scalper $400 for a ticket to see The Who play Tommy. It was worth every cent”: Mike Portnoy on his top prog songs and artists, and why the Rolling Stones have the greatest-ever prog album sleeve

The Dream Theater drummer’s musical world includes Rush, Yes, King Crimson, Roger Waters and Frank Zappa – alongside the Bee Gees

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Giles, Giles & Fripp remastered reissues coming on vinyl and CD in July

Robert Fripp's pre-King Crimson musical endeavours with Michael and Peter Giles to be released in July

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“My upbeat moment is, I'm alive”: Robert Fripp reveals he’s recovering from a heart attack

The prog rock icon underwent two lots of emergency surgery in Italy, revealing there were “complex moments” along the way

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Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox reveal Fripp is recovering from a recent heart attack

King Crimson leader Robert Fripp recently underwent two heart surgeries in Italy

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“I’ve heard Robert Fripp say no to everybody. David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, you name it, he always has an excuse not to play… He’s a wonderful husband but professionally it’s done me no favours”: Toyah Willcox is more than just Mrs King Crimson

From post-punk icon and award-winning female solo artist to becoming regarded as just the prog mastermind’s wife, her rebellious creative energy is fired by Roxy Music, Devo, The Tubes and all things off the wall

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“The biggest challenge was not to come off like Tenacious D. It could easily be interpreted as some form of parody”: How Primus made an album about goblins and rainbows while trying not to mention goblins and rainbows

2017’s The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool’s bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children’s story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon

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“I subsequently became the world’s most famous guitarist with The Police. I wanted to play with somebody else to see how I’d do, like an experiment on myself”: At the height of his ’80s success, Andy Summers needed a challenge – he found Robert Fripp

As Summers’ and Fripp’s avant-garde albums of the 80s are reissued, we hear all about how the side-project came to be – and whether it could happen again

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"Come up to the bedroom now, honey!" Things get steamy in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen as Robert and Toyah tackle Rod Stewart's Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

The Fripp-Willcox cover of Rod Stewart's classic features a rare lead vocal from Robert Fripp

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King Crimson's Jakko M. Jakszyk announces his new solo album will be released in June

King Crimson vocalist and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk's new solo album, Son Of Glen, is a compaion piece ot his acclaimed autobiography

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“He was riding a bicycle on stage. I had my camera on a tripod and, gee, what a coincidence – almost every night he’d knock it over!” Tony Levin on the differences between Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp

Veteran bassist Tony Levin, who met Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp on the same day in 1976, compares and contrasts the two band leaders

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“I wasn’t into King Crimson at all. Definitely not my kind of music”: How Andy Summers formed one of the 1980s’ most unlikely guitar partnerships with Robert Fripp – despite not being especially keen on some of his work

The worlds of stadium rock and prog came together for a time in the early 1980s, when The Police and King Crimson guitarists teamed up for a handful of avant-garde records

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“With deference to everybody in Beat, my function is to amuse myself and hopefully you. I can’t do music from 45 years ago”: Why Bill Bruford demoted himself from the King Crimson, Yes and Genesis league

Bill Bruford retired in 2009 and later sold most of his equipment to Tool’s Danny Carey. Then he found he wasn’t finished on stage – and he’s come back re-energised

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“Every record was a battle… I was listening, like, ‘This is amazing!’ but Robert Fripp was reliving the pain and trying to find his way through that”: What Steven Wilson learned from remixing King Crimson

Admitting that arrogance played a role in accepting the challenge, Wilson was left with an even greater appreciation of Fripp’s achievements

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