6/24/2023 0 Comments Bible black![]() Even today, Fripp still receives a trickle of royalties resulting from the movie’s soundtrack. They ended up in court and lost their case. You might not think of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, Part Two as the modern-day equivalent of Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! or the ideal music to improve your seduction technique, but the makers of the soft-porn movie Emmanuelle evidently thought it couldn’t hurt, ripping off the track’s thrusting themes as an ideal accompaniment to their on-screen action. ![]() “Sexuality pervades my work,” he told bemused journalists at the time. This was despite admitting the numbers he’d already had congress with as being, in his own words, somewhat excessive. Just weeks before Wetton’s marriage proposal in Rome, the guitarist went on record in both the Melody Maker and the New Musical Express to declare his availability to as many young ladies as might be interested. ‘What plays on the road stays on the road’ might well have been the golden rule for many groups of the day, though it seems nobody had passed that memo on to Robert Fripp. Alongside such carnal cavorting, the consumption of cocaine would eventually become commonplace – though not, it should be noted, by everyone in the group. But any consideration of headlining bands of the era will inevitably uncover rock’n’roll’s close cousins, sex and drugs, lurking close by. There are other tales of far more lurid backstage antics from Crimson’s extensive catalogue of live dates, which are not quite repeatable. Took me completely by surprise! Stuff like that would happen to Crimson all the time.” For this girl to get it together, get her brother down to the gig and, with her dad’s permission, make a formal request that I marry her… I mean, it’s extraordinary. Guys were still lying on the pavement trying to look up miniskirts at that time. Italy in 1973 didn’t have a progressive feminist atmosphere. Then I went and got somebody from the management to tell the girl and her brother that we would consider her request. There was no security because the gig wasn’t anywhere near starting. ![]() ‘I have a formal request from my family that you marry me.’ I managed to placate the brother, who looked like he would’ve murdered me on the spot if I’d said no, and for a few moments I played along with it. “I laughed a bit nervously but she told me that she was serious and her brother would attest to that. Back then, at home and abroad, there were legions of girls charging about from venue to venue, hurling declarations of undying love and more in the direction of their favourite pop idols… but King Crimson? Really? Wetton admits to being taken aback, not necessarily by the demand so much as the potential danger of the situation.
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