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King Crimson

King Crimson
King Crimson 1980s lineup: Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford and Tony Levin.
King Crimson 1980s lineup: Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford and Tony Levin.
Background information
OriginEngland
Genre(s)Progressive rock
Jazz-rock
Years active1969–1974, 1981–1984, 1994–present
Members
Robert Fripp
Adrian Belew
Tony Levin
Pat Mastelotto
Former members
Greg Lake
Gordon Haskell
Boz Burrell (deceased)
John Wetton
Trey Gunn
Michael Giles
Andy McCulloch
Ian Wallace (deceased)
Jamie Muir
Bill Bruford
Peter Sinfield
Richard Palmer-James
Ian McDonald
Mel Collins
David Cross

King Crimson are a musical group founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969. Their style has typically been categorized as progressive rock, although it also has diverse influences from jazz, classical, experimental, psychedelic, New Wave, heavy metal, gamelan and folk music. Although King Crimson has garnered little radio or music video airplay, they have a devoted following. Their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of the progressive rock genre; their later excursions into even more unconventional territory have been influential on many contemporary musical artists.

In the late 1960s the band were very influential in popularising a previously unknown mellotron rock style; throughout the early 1970s their membership fluctuated with forays into jazz and funk at times before becoming a more stable unit in the mid 1970s, developing an improvisational sound influenced by heavy metal before breaking up. The band reformed in the early 1980s for three years, with a New Wave and gamelan-influenced sound, before breaking up again for around a decade. The 1990s saw King Crimson meld aspects of their 1980s and 1970s sound, which has continued into the 2000s, during which time several splinter groups of King Crimson known as "ProjeKcts" appeared.

Though its membership has fluctuated considerably throughout its existence, the band continues to perform and record music. The only constant member of King Crimson has been Fripp, who has arranged several disparate lineups of King Crimson, often working in different genres. However, he has stated that he does not necessarily consider himself the band's leader, describing King Crimson as "a way of doing things", and noting that he never originally intended to be seen as the head of the group.


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