Chart Position: NR
- Lead vocals: Greg Lake
- Written by Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield
- Guitar: Robert Fripp
- Keyboards: Ian McDonald
- Woodwinds: Ian McDonald
- Backing vocals: Michael Giles, Ian McDonald
- Produced by King Crimson
- Recorded in London U.K.
- The song received a lot of radio airplay on college-oriented stations
- Due to the song’s 9:25 length, it was split into 2 parts for the single
- Artist Barry Godber died only a few months after painting the cover of the 1969 King Crimson debut LP ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’
- The LP is generally considered a classic in the progressive rock genre
- Greg Lake departed in 1970 to help form Emerson Lake and Palmer
- This is King Crimson’s biggest U.S. hit single
- Later recorded by Doc Severinsen (1971), Greg Lake (1981), Saxon (2001)
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