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An Uncanny Masterpiece

The 1969 debut album by King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King (an observation by King Crimson) reached #3 on the British charts and was certified gold in the United States in 1977.

Called "an uncanny masterpiece" by Pete Townsend of The Who, the album was the band's most successful, and is generally viewed as one of the strongest of the progressive rock genre, combining blues-oriented rock with jazz and European symphonic musical styles.

In the Court of the Crimson King (an observation by King Crimson) 


The original line up was Michael Giles ( drums, percussion, vocals), Robert Fripp ( guitar), Greg Lake (bass guitar, lead vocals), Ian McDonald (flute, clarinet, saxophone, vibes, keyboards, mellotron, vocals), and Peter Sinfield (lyrics, illumination).

The album consists of five songs that are divided into sub-sections. The sub-sections do not indicate actual musical divisions in the songs, but gave the album the appearance of having the equivalence of twelve full songs so the group would get the proper royalties. Groups no longer need to do this because of rules that the music industry has adopted after the release of In the Court of the Crimson King (an observation by King Crimson) which take into account the lengths of the songs, and not just the number of titles on the recording.

  1. '21st Century Schizoid Man' - 7:21
    including 'Mirrors'
  2. 'I Talk to the Wind' - 6:05
  3. 'Epitaph' - 8:47
    including 'March for No Reason' and
    'Tomorrow and Tomorrow'
  4. 'Moonchild' - 12:13
    including 'The Dream' and
    'The Illusion'
  5. 'The Court of the Crimson King' - 9:25
    including 'The Return of the Fire Witch' and
    'The Dance of the Puppets'


"Cat's foot, iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty-first century schizoid man"

- From "21st Century Schizoid Man" including "Mirrors"

Composer: Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles
Lyrics by: Peter Sinfield



About the artwork:
Barry Godber was not a painter but a computer programmer. That painting was the only one he ever did. He was a friend of Peter Sinfield, and died in 1970 of a heart attack at age 24. Peter brought this painting in and the band loved it. I recently recovered the original from EG's offices because they kept it exposed to bright light, at the risk of ruining it, so I ended up removing it. The face on the outside is the Schizoid Man, and on the inside it's the Crimson King. If you cover the smiling face, the eyes reveal an incredible sadness. What can one add? It reflects the music. I was never impressed by heavy metal. Nobody at the time sounded like us in concert. For me "Schizoid" was the first heavy metal track, that sound of an electric saxophone going through a Marshall amp...As for Michael Giles, he was a phenomenal drummer. No rock drummer could touch him in 69.

-- Interview with Robert Fripp
in Rock and Folk



The album was remastered and re-released on vinyl and CD several times during the 1980s and 1990s by Polydor and EG Records using copies several generations removed from the original stereo master causing a lack of clarity and excessive tape hiss.. The original stereo master tapes were finally located in a Virgin Records storage vault in 2003, after they had been misplaced for over 30 years, leading to a much improved remastered CD version released in 2004.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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21st century schizoid man

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CK - I Talk to the Wind

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CK - Epitaph

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