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Guitarist Robbie McIntosh played guitar in the Pretenders in the Eighties, and went on to tour with Paul McCartney, John Mayer, and Norah Jones.
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?
Before they were overwhelmed by Her Majesty, the obituarists had plenty to do memorialising “the rock generation”. I went to work in a black tie when
How King Crimson fractured, regrouped and fractured again as they created 1971's Islands album
Ahead of King Crimson's Fort Worth show, here are 10 songs proving it's the perfect band.