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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
Jesus Christ, King Crimson had two remotely Psychedelic albums and they weren't influenced by the Beatles at all.
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Robert Fripp on hearing the Beatles Sgt Pepper
Robert Fripp- When I was 20, I worked at a hotel in a dance orchestra, playing weddings, bar-mitzvahs, dancing, cabaret. I drove home and I was also at college at the time. Then I put on the radio (Radio Luxemburg) and I heard this music. It was terrifying. I had no idea what it was. Then it kept going. Then there was this enormous whine note of strings. Then there was this colossal piano chord. I discovered later that I'd come in half-way through Sgt. Pepper, played continuously. My life was never the same again.
Anyone who knows King Crimson Adrian Belew's favorite band is "The Beatles"
Robert Fripp- wanted King Crimson to emulate the Beatles' proclivity for packing many strands of meaning into a song, so that a record could stand up to repeated listening: "The Beatles achieve probably better than anyone the ability to make you tap your foot first time round, dig the words sixth time round, and get into the guitar slowly panning the twentieth time." Fripp wished Crimson could "achieve entertainment on as many levels as that. ]
Some of the songs Robert Fripp songs influenced by the Beatles
"She is loaded" / Giles Giles and Fripp 1968 the opening round of four chords, appearing elsewhere in the song as well, as owe much rhythmically to the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's"
"Tomorrow Never Knew Thela" is based on "Tomorrow Never Knows"
"Travel weary capricorn". A mellotron improv follows (which borrows samples from the Beatles' "Bungalow Bill
King Crimson used to cover "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"