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“I wasn’t into King Crimson at all. Definitely not my kind of music”: 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

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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

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“I thought, Robert Fripp’s a good guitarist. Maybe we could do something.” Andy Summers isn’t a fan of King Crimson, but his collaboration with Fripp came along at just the right time

He’d made his name in the mainstream, but after several albums with the Police, Andy Summers was looking for another guitarist to get weird with

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“I wasn’t into King Crimson at all. Definitely not my kind of music”: 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

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“I wasn’t into King Crimson at all. Definitely not my kind of music”: 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

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“I thought, Robert Fripp’s a good guitarist. Maybe we could do something.” Andy Summers isn’t a fan of King Crimson, but his collaboration with Fripp came along at just the right time

“I wasn’t into King Crimson at all. Definitely not my kind of music”: 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

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