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Can you call your film “In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50” and not play a chunky part of the tune you use as your title or show the band playing it on stage? You can if you’re Toby ...

Just as King Crimson has been, for more than half a century, an atypical rock band, this film is a refreshingly atypical music documentary. A film about the sacrifices we need to make to bring things ...

Toby Amies’s documentary dives into the history of the British progressive rock band King Crimson and its chief disciplinarian, Robert Fripp. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Robert Fripp takes in the silence before one of King Crimson's shows on their 2019 tour. In the documentary, he said "For silence to become audible, it requires a vehicle, and that vehicle is music." ...

With their third album, Lizard, Fripp augmented a transitional line-up with top-drawer jazz players to create an epic, sprawling, chaotic clash of styles veering from sparse, cinematic moodiness to ...

To appreciate how varied and experimental early prog rock truly was, you only have to look at the albums that came out in ...

Watching Toby Amies’s documentary In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 is an enthralling and often amusing experience. It’s also disconcerting if you labour under the illusion that the ...

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