This month sees the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s death. One of the most influential and pioneering musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries. This intelligent, articulate, witty, endearingly ecce

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BY THE SUMMER of 1974, King Crimson had reached critical mass. Albums like In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973) and Starless and Bible Black (early 1974) had seen th

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