Happy Birthday Ian McDonald

Posted by Sid Smith
25 Jun 2021

Happy Birthday Ian McDonald

King Crimson co-founder, Ian McDonald celebrates his 75th birthday today. It's pretty difficult to imagine King Crimson '69 without Ian's multi-instrumental skills and gift for composition and arrangements.

Here's Ian and Peter Sinfield interviewed for the Japanese music show Song To Soul talking about the album and the title track. . .

 

 

 

It's often been said that In The Court Of The Crimson King failed to capture the full range of the '69 band. Here's a live track that shows a different aspect of the group's complex musical personality with Ian's flute playing well to the fore...

 

 

 

 



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