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“I shrugged off advice and instead went headlong into experimenting with different musical ideas. Not my best ever move”: Greg Lake’s faltering reboot after ELP split

He later described his disappointing debut solo album as “actually about who I’m not, rather than who I am”

Louder

Bill Bruford surprises fans with live performance at John Wetton Tribute show

Bruford appeared alongside Roger Chapman, Rick Wakeman, Annie Haslam, Steve Hackett and more

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I got shot down many times: ‘Oh, it’s pop. Oh, it’s bubblegum… the logo is ugly and we don’t hear a single!’” How John Wetton and Asia dialled up their debut album

The fleeting moment when a prog supergroup hijacked the US pop charts, becoming 1982's band of the summer

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“Without naming names, I have spent time onstage playing music I hate, wishing it was over”: King Crimson, Porcupine Tree and Pineapple Thief’s Gavin Harrison on being a pro

The eclectic drummer has been the jokey one in some bands and the serious, grown-up one in others - but it all comes down to the same approach

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John Lennon: “Willie Weeks was supposed to do it, but he was doing a George Harrison session”: In August 1980 John Lennon could have called just about any bass player on Earth. He went with Tony Levin

The King Crimson bassist recalls the making of Double Fantasy and why he laughed at The Beatle’s first ever words to him

Guitar World

“I’ve always had a knack for emulating sounds or creating new ones”: Adrian Belew on the weird, wonderful and utterly unique tones behind his new solo album, Elevator

The former Frank Zappa and King Crimson guitarist keeps putting his decades-old knack for sonic invention to good use

Guitar World

“David Bowie’s Lodger was supposed to be called Planned Accidents… I was the accident!” Adrian Belew on being poached from Frank Zappa’s band

King Crimson and Talking Heads veteran recalls having to record for Bowie without hearing the songs first

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Watch Adrian Belew and Les Claypool tackle King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet live

Former Crimson musician Adrian Belew jams with Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade on their Summer Of Green tour package

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"I played a blues scale as fast as I could and he said, 'That's not fast, you're not a good guitarist'" – John Frusciante on his depressing encounter with a guitar teacher, and his teenage heroes Steve Vai and Adrian Belew

A new extensive interview with bandmate Flea reveals the iconic Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist's roots

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A beginner's guide to progressive rock in five essential albums

50 years on from its arrival, arguments still rage about what exactly constitutes progressive rock - but there's no quibbling about these five essential albums, surely?

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Aylesbury Friars: the story of a venue

The Buckinghamshire venue was instrumental in furthering the careers of David Bowie, Genesis, VdGG, King Crimson, Marillion and more

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Tony Levin: “D’Angelo’s Voodoo made me want to go back to school as a bassist”

The King Crimson bassist names four albums that shaped his sound

Guitar World

The story of prog record label InsideOut Music

German record label InsideOut is home to such names as Spock’s Beard, Steve Hackett and most recently Dream Theater. Prog meets its founder to discuss the label’s journey, and its future.

Louder

How Haken took their love of 80s prog and made Affinity

Yes' 90125, the Transformers cartoon soundtrack and Toto were just some of the influences for Haken's 2016 album Infinty

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Watch Tool and Queens Of The Stone Age members perform Led Zeppelin and AC/DC songs with Primus

Members of Tool and QOTSA joined Primus on stage to perform Led Zeppelin and AC/DC classics at a recent benefit concert in Los Angeles

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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

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"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.

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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

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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?

The Guardian - UK

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 - US

‘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 - UK

Ian McDonald obituary

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

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Wales Online

Foreigner and King Crimson rocker Ian McDonald dies

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

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