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- Greg Lake: born November 10, 1948, in Bournemouth, England. - Ian McDonald: born June 25, 1946, in London, England. - Michael Giles: born March 1, 1942, in Bournemouth, England. - Peter Giles: born June 17, 1944, in Bournemouth, England. - Peter Sinfield: born 1946, in Putney, West London, England. - Gordon Haskell: born April 27, 1946, Bournemouth, England. - Mel Collins: born June 19, 1948, in England. - Boz Burrell: born Raymond Burrell, 1946, in Lincoln, England. - Ian Wallace: born September 29, 1946, in Bury, England. - Bill Bruford: born May 17, 1948, in London, England. - John Wetton: born July 12, 1949, in Derby, England. - David Cross: born 1948, in Plymouth, England. - Adrian Belew: born Robert Steven Belew, December 23, 1949, in Covington, Kentucky. - Tony Levin: born June 6, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts. - Pat Mastelotto: born Lee Patrick Mastelotto, September 10, 1955, in Chico, California. - Trey Gunn: born December 13, 1961, in Texas. - January 29, 1961: Michael Giles and Peter Giles join Jonny King and The Raiders. - August 27, 1961: Michael Giles and Peter Giles leave Jonny King and The Raiders. - August 28, 1961: Michael Giles and Peter Giles join Dave Anthony and The Rebels. - November 4, 1961: Michael Giles and Peter Giles join The Dowland Brothers and The Soundtracks. - November 11, 1961: Michael Giles and Peter Giles leave Dave Anthony and The Rebels. - 1963: Robert Fripp plays some local hotel/dance gigs with The Douglas Ward Trio. - 1963: The League Of Gentlemen is formed. - September 14, 1963: Michael Giles and Peter Giles leave The Dowland Brothers and The Soundtracks. - September 27: 1963: Michael Giles and Peter Giles join The Sands. - November 12, 1963: Michael Giles and Peter Giles leave The Sands and join The Interns. - December 4, 1963: Michael Giles and Peter Giles leave The Interns. - January 8, 1964: Michael Giles and Peter Giles join Trendsetters Ltd. - April/1964: Michael Giles and Peter Giles turn professional. - August/1965: Robert Fripp leaves The League Of Gentlemen. - May 8, 1967: Michael Giles and Peter Giles leave Trendsetters Ltd. - May 16, 1967: Robert Fripp turns professional. - August 28, 1967: Giles, Giles and Fripp is formed. - June 7, 1968: Judy Dyble and Ian McDonald visit and join Giles, Giles and Fripp which becomes a quintet, several demos are made at home including "I Talk To The Wind" and "Under The Sky". - June 28, 1968: Release of Giles, Giles and Fripp single for Deram "One In A Million". - July 1968: Judy Dyble leaves Giles, Giles and Fripp. Peter Sinfield is introduced as lyricist by his friend Ian McDonald. - September 12, 1968: Giles, Giles and Fripp accompany Al Stewart on the BBC Radio show 'My Kind Of Folk'. - September 13, 1968: 'The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp' is released. - October 11, 1968: Release of Giles, Giles and Fripp single for Deram "Thursday Morning". - October 17, 1968: Giles, Giles and Fripp perform on B.B.C. TV-'The Eamonn Andrews Show'. - November 16, 1968: Giles, Giles and Fripp's appearence on B.B.C TV show 'Colour Me Pop' is filmed. - November 30, 1968: 'Colour Me Pop' broadcast and Giles, Giles & Fripp disband. - January 13, 1969: King Crimson is born with rehearsals in the basement of the Fulham Palace Cafe, London, England. The lineup is Robert Fripp (guitar), Greg Lake (bass and vocals), Ian McDonald (keyboards and reeds), Michael Giles (drums), and Peter Sinfield (words and illumination) is also road manager, shortly followed by Dik Fraser. Sinfield builds lights out of baking foil and plywood. - April 9, 1969: King Crimson's first gig at the Speakeasy, London, England. - July 5, 1969: Hyde Park free concert with The Rolling Stones, Battered Ornament, Third Ear Band, Alexis Korner, Family, King Crimson and Screw. Estimated 650,000 audience. - October 10, 1969: 'In The Court Of The Crimson King' is released. It charted at no. 5 in the U.K. and no. 28 in the U.S. The title track was the band's only charting single, at no. 80 in the U.S. The album is acclaimed as a masterpiece by both the British and American music press and is endorsed by Pete Townshend as 'an uncanny masterpiece'. - October 29, 1969: King Crimson's first U.S. gig - Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. - December 3-6, 1969: Michael Giles and Ian McDonald leave the band. - March 13, 1970: The single "Cat Food/Groon" is released in the U.K. - March 21, 1970: flautist/altoist Mel Collins (ex-Circus) joins the band. - March 25, 1970: King Crimson perform "Cat Food" on B.B.C. TV-'Top Of The Pops', with the lineup of Fripp, Lake, Keith Tippett (piano), Michael Giles, and Peter Giles (bass). - March/1970: Greg Lake leaves the band to form Emerson, Lake and Palmer with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer. Robert Fripp gives up offers to join Aynsley Dunbar's Blue Whale and to replace Peter Banks in Yes. - May 9, 1970: 'In The Wake Of Poseidon' is released with the lineup of Fripp, Collins, Tippet, Sinfield, Michael Giles, Peter Giles, with vocals by Greg Lake and Gordon Haskell. Elton John had been booked to sing on all the songs on the album as a session singer but Fripp decided his style wasn't right for King Crimson. The album charted at no. 4 in the U.K. and no. 31 in the U.S. The chaotic instrumental piece "The Devil's Triangle" is basically a renamed version of Gustav Holst's "Mars: Bringer Of War" from his The Planets Suite. King Crimson would have called the piece Mars, as they performed it on tour in the 1969 lineup, but were forbidden by the composer's legal estate. In 1971 a brief excerpt from "The Devil's Triangle" was featured on the BBC television series Doctor Who. Also, the track samples the chorus from "The Court Of The Crimson King", the title track from the band's first album. - August 15, 1970: New lineup consisting of Fripp, Sinfield, Collins, Haskell, and Andy McCulloch on drums with help from Keith Tippett, Mark Charig (cornet), Robin Miller (oboe), and Nick Evans (trombone). - November 7, 1970: Gordon Haskell leaves the band during rehearsals and two days after the band's next album had been completed. A devotee of soul and Motown music, he found it difficult to connect with the material on the album. During the next 19 years, he sought legal redress, because he believed that he had been cheated out of royalties owed to him for the album. Shortly after Haskell left the group, Andy McCulloch did likewise. - December 11, 1970: 'Lizard' is released. It charted at no. 30 in the U.K. Two tracks from the album, "Indoor Games" and "Happy Family", are offbeat and full of mischievous humour. The former with lyrics evoking various forms of Hedonism, and the latter with lyrics about the dissolution of the Beatles. The Beatles are represented in the lyrics of "Happy Family" as 'Judas' (Paul McCartney), 'Rufus' (Ringo Starr), 'Silas' (George Harrison), and 'Jonah' (John Lennon). The two tracks are separated by the sound of Gordon Haskell laughing uncontrollably, as he tries unsuccessfully to sing the words 'hey ho'. His laughter, he later explained, was provoked by the fact that he thought these words were ridiculous which seems to be representative of his attitude towards Sinfield's lyrics. The press release drafted by Sinfield to promote the album wryly quoted Max Ehrmann's poem "Desiderata". Two days after the album was released, the band fell apart. -----> |
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