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Robert Fripp: "Why didn’t I become a blues guitarist? Probably because I wasn’t a very good blues guitarist"

King Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp on choosing guitar, musical influences, band principles and heartbreaking departures

Louder

"I’ve been booted out of King Crimson about three times": Bill Bruford on a life in music

From Yes and King Crimson to UK and Earthworks, the highly respected drummer with an extremely distinctive sound talks developing a thick skin, suffering for his art and why he doesn’t like looking backwards.

Louder

Normal service resumes as Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox perform frisky cover of Centerfold

Toyah brandishes a copy of Prog magazine as the Fripp-Willcox kitchen reverberates to the sound of a J. Geils Band classic

Louder

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Elton John's 'Farewell Yellow Brick Road' world tour is nearing its end, but is he really going to retire?

Is it the end of the yellow brick road for Elton John?

Tribune News Service

In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 review – a rollicking workplace comedy

This unflinching portrait of the prog rock band is like an episode of The Office but with huge drum kits, grizzled roadies and rapturous fans

The Guardian - UK

In the Court of the Crimson King: angular, hilarious portrait of prog rock’s noodlers-in-chief

Toby Amies’s fascinating documentary gets right inside the exacting world of Robert Fripp and co as they approach their 50th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

‘A force entirely of itself’: Robert Fripp on the difficult legacy of King Crimson

The complicated and fractious history of the prog-rock titans is explored in revealing new documentary In the Court of the Crimson King

The Guardian - US

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Ian McDonald obituary

Multi-instrumentalist and galvanising force of Foreigner and King Crimson, who also played saxophone on T Rex’s Get It On

The Guardian - UK

Rocker Ian McDonald, co-founded King Crimson and Foreigner, dies at 75

A representative said McDonald died Wednesday at his home in New York City. Son Max McDonald said his father had been suffering from cancer.

Chicago Sun-Times

Foreigner and King Crimson rocker Ian McDonald dies

The musician was a multi-instrumentalist and was King Crimson's primary composer

Wales Online

Ian McDonald dead: Founding member of Foreigner and King Crimson dies at 75

Rocker Ian McDonald - who starred in era-defining groups King Crimson and Foreigner, has died at the age of 75 surrounded by his family

Daily Mirror

Ian McDonald: King Crimson and Foreigner co-founder dies age 75

Between his two best known bands, the multi-instrumentalist appeared on four of the biggest-selling albums of the period 1969-79

The Guardian - UK

Ian McDonald death: King Crimson and Foreigner co-founder dies aged 75

Multi-instrumentalist was a key part of King Crimson’s ground-breaking prog rock sound

The Independent UK

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