Latest about Robert Fripp
“I asked for a discount. The assistant said, ‘I could phone up Clapton and he’d buy it’”: Robert Fripp’s life in three guitars
The King Crimson founder has enjoyed the company of all kinds of guitars in his time – from the good, bad to the ugly – but these are the three that have meant the most to him
The making of Red, the album that pushed King Crimson to the brink
Robert Fripp digs into his long-unopened personal diaries with Guitar World as he shares the story of the relentlessly heavy and ambitious 1974 prog classic
Robert Fripp explains how King Crimson paved the way for heavy metal
Robert Fripp says the band doesn't get enough credit for its hard-hitting groundwork
Greg Lake started out as a guitarist – before being convinced by Robert Fripp to switch to bass when joining King Crimson
Lake went on to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer – ELP – with keyboardist Keith Emerson and drummer Carl Palmer, creating one of rock’s first super-groups
Robert Fripp on the guitars he’s kept, and the one he bought with no intention of playing
The King Crimson mastermind is best known for his ’59 Les Paul Custom, and there’s a reason most of his key instruments have been Gibsons – but he has a few “honorable mentions” too, like the '57 Strat Robin Trower gave him...
Robert Fripp on that one time Robin Trower gave him a highly coveted Strat – and why he never ended up using it
Fripp proves he’s Gibson (and Fernandes) through and through...
Robert Fripp reveals he’s recovering from a heart attack
The prog rock icon underwent two lots of emergency surgery in Italy, revealing there were “complex moments” along the way
Andy Summers on the stylistic clashes and unexpected successes of his ‘80s collab with Robert Fripp
As Summers’ and Fripp’s avant-garde albums of the 80s are reissued, we hear all about how the side-project came to be – and whether it could happen again
How Andy Summers formed one of the 1980s’ most unlikely guitar partnerships with Robert Fripp – despite not being especially keen on some of his work
The worlds of stadium rock and prog came together for a time in the early 1980s, when The Police and King Crimson guitarists teamed up for a handful of avant-garde records
