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Happy Birthday, Michael

Posted by Sid Smith
1 Mar 2023

Please raise a glass or a cup of something convivial and celebrate Michael Giles' birthday. The King Crimson co-founder is 81 years old today.

Photo by Adrian Chivers

Here's a special mix of the very first recording of 21st Schizoid Man at Morgan Studios prior to the recording of the debut album at Wessex Studios several weeks later with added Jakszyk and Collins...

Here's Michael discussing his departure from Crimson with Aymeric Leroy...

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The 1980s see a very different King Crimson incarnation originally touring under the name Discipline . The presence of Adrian Belew meant that Robert Fripp was working for the first time with another guitarist. This incarnation of Fripp, Belew, Bruford and Levin becomes the first one to record successive studio albums with the same lineup.