A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson

by King Crimson

A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Island
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 53:35
  • Community rating: 4.29/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Robert Fripp

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Curated by Robert Fripp following the band's mid-seventies dissolution, this double-album offers a meticulously sequenced overview of their highly turbulent, profoundly influential career. The retrospective effectively summarizes their pioneering fusions of heavy symphonic orchestration, jazz-rock dissonance, and expansive progressive ambition.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive

Tracklist

  1. Epitaph
  2. Cadence & Cascade
  3. Ladies Of The Road
  4. I Talk To The Wind
  5. Red
  6. Starless
  7. The Night Watch
  8. Book Of Saturday
  9. Peace - A Theme
  10. Cat Food
  11. Groon
  12. Coda From Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Two
  13. Moonchild
  14. Trio
  15. In The Court Of The Crimson King

Credits

  • King Crimson - primary artist, producer [produced by]
  • Bob Bowkett - artwork
  • John Wetton - bass, voice, written-by, vocals
  • Peter Giles - bass, tape op [revox manipulated by]
  • Greg Lake - bass, vocals, written-by
  • Robert Fripp - compiled by, concept by, guitar, mellotron, producer [produced by], directed by, written-by, celesta, harmonium
  • Michael Giles - drums, vocals, percussion, written-by
  • Bill Bruford - drums, percussion, written-by, voice
  • Andy Hendriksen - engineer
  • George Chkiantz - engineer
  • Robin Thompson - engineer
  • Steve Nye - engineer [glued together]
  • Peter Sinfield - featuring, producer [produced by], directed by, written-by
  • Harry Moss - lacquer cut by
  • Fergus Hall - painting [front & rear cover paintings]
  • Nicholas De Ville - presenter
  • Ian McDonald - vocals, woodwind, keyboards, mellotron, written-by, acoustic guitar, flute, clarinet, vocals, alto saxophone, mellotron, percussion, vocals, flute, keyboards, mellotron
  • Mel Collins - flute, vocals, saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Keith Tippett - piano
  • Gordon Haskell - vocals
  • Boz Burrell - bass, lead vocals
  • Ian Wallace - drums, percussion, vocals
  • Judy Dyble - vocals
  • Robin Miller - oboe
  • David Cross - written-by, violin, voice, violin
  • Richard Palmer-James - written-by
  • Jamie Muir - percussion, voice, written-by

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