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A Brief History of King Crimson: 1969-1974
Despite the fact that a great deal of the music played by the original Crimson lineup of Robert Fripp/Ian McDonald/Greg Lake/Michael Giles/Peter Sinfield was, indeed, part of the progressive scene, there is no question that the entity that is King Crimson, has transcended that initial identity and a good many others besides.

 

Knockin' 'Em Down In The City: Iggy Pop--The Arista Years Iggy was pretty much down for the count at the time Arista signed him. When former Columbia stalwart Clive Davis found that Iggy had been signed to his fledgling label he wouldn't even commit to releasing the albums in the U.S.

 

Blue Jean Baby Blue jean music. It's a term that describes the early-to-mid-seventies style that is piano based, usually by female singer/songwriters (not always, though), and represents some of the inner searching that followed the outward, protest-based expressions of the 1960s.

 

The Revolution Will Not Be Homogenized Back in 1968, the music scene was undergoing a revolution that had nothing to do with MP3, but the overall effects were just as far-reaching. Black popular music had been neatly divided by the music industry into jazz, blues, R&B, and gospel, but as more listeners (both black and white) discovered these segmented genres they began to be drawn together into a cohesive whole