| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781900924269 | | Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing | | Publish Date: 1/1/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 30802748 | | Item#: RK5SVJ | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 6.25L x 0.75T | | Pages: 256 |
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| | | King Crimson's 1969 masterpiece "In The Court Of The Crimson King," was a huge U.S. chart hit. The band followed it with 40 further albums of consistently challenging, distinctive and innovative music. Drawing on hours of new interviews, and encouraged by Crimson supremo Robert Fripp, the author traces the band's turbulent history year by year, track by track.
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An in-depth look at the entirety of progressive rock giant King Crimson's career, IN THE COURT OF KING CRIMSON follows the band through successive line-up changes, studio experimentation, intimations of pop stardom, and the loneliness and pressures of touring. Aided by Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, author Sid Smith minutely examines the band's origins in the 1960s pop group Johnny King and the Raiders, through the more progressively minded Giles, Giles and Fripp, to its epoch-making first King Crimson incarnation. He also conducts an exhaustive exploration of the Crimson discography, including its first album, 1969's IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING, and its one near-hit single, "Cat Food," in addition to three decades' worth of subsequent recorded output. The book is also spiced with interesting Crimson trivia (Elton John was once seriously considered for the position of vocalist), and highlights the band's constant restless musical explorations, which enabled guitarist Robert Fripp to ride out the punk rock-oriented late '70s by recording with new wave darlings Brian Eno and David Bowie. IN THE COURT is a remarkably comprehensive and insightful overview of the life, times, and output of a band whose oeuvre is best summed up in the words of one critic: "Musically, nowhere is off limits."
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