“Robert Fripp is not quite the character who’s perceived in conventional wisdom particularly, may I say, in Prog magazine.” Now the Covid-19 pandemic seems an age away. The disrupted routines and lockdown days that drifted into weeks and months are a foggy memory for many, but they were perilous times and King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp recalls the atmosphere in his hometown, Pershore.
“The fear was palpable,” he says. “It was pretty terrifying, as if the Black Death had revisited the community.”
With it came a sudden and unprecedented need for isolation, and Fripp’s wife Toyah Willcox was concerned about the adverse effects all this was having on him.
“She would look in the door and see me here in the study, and I can imagine she was thinking, ‘Here…
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