Director Toby Amies's film tells the 50-year story of prog rockers King Crimson, which is also the story of the band's polarizing founder and guitarist, Robert Fripp.
Our latest Curated By…Edition celebrates King Crimson. Their albums, as they see it. Their influences. The greatest gigs they ever saw, and their 50 favourite albums. It’s King Crimson's life in music – as told in a series of exclusive new interviews.
Whether grinding or eerie, bellicose or plaintive, the exquisite jazz- and classical-infused prog rock dirges disgorged by King Crimson over the last 54 years stand apart from the more accessible sounds made by their illustrious peers, including Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Yes, Genesis, Curved Air, and ELP. Given the discomfiting aesthetic of Crimson’s music – a fulminating anti-panacea, relentlessly modernistic – is it any wonder there was much misery in its making?