One of his pals had just purchased the UK progressive-rock band’s debut album, “In the Court of the Crimson King,” and “we put it on and sat there with our mouths open,” Belew recalls.

When it was first released in 2001, British scribe Sid Smith's In the Court of King Crimson (Helter Skelter Publishing) filled a major need for a band that was, at that time, touring in its double duo ...

The director Toby Amies’s documentary “In the Court of the Crimson King” is part road chronicle and part retrospective, and captures King Crimson, the adventurous British rock ensemble ...

Can you call your film “In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50” and not play a chunky part of the tune you use as your title or show the band playing it on stage? You can if you ...

“In the Court of the Crimson King” is really about as good as rock documentaries get, in capturing the essence of a group of musicians and how they relate to each other, the world and a muse ...

He was tapped by King Crimson’s idiosyncratic and famously truculent founder Robert Fripp to chronicle the band’s golden anniversary, a four-year project that turned into “In the Court of ...

IN 1969 KING CRIMSON released their debut album, an astonishing work called “In the Court of the Crimson King”. It melded avant-garde, classical, jazz and psychedelic influences and ...

Hence the utility of the long-rumored In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, a moving, accessible, and very funny look at one of the most precise bands in the history of rock music ...

Watching Toby Amies’s documentary In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 is an enthralling and often amusing experience. It’s also disconcerting if you labour under the illusion that the ...

“You didn’t make mistakes. It was verboten,” he recalls in “In the Court of the Crimson King,” a new feature-length documentary that screens Wednesday at the Brattle Theatre, the Cabot ...