Peter Sinfield, the colorfully surreal British poet and lyricist who co-founded King Crimson with guitarist-composer Robert Fripp and went on to contribute lyrics to songs by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Celine Dion and Cher, died Thursday in London. The news was confirmed by Fripp on social media; Sinfield (pictured above, left, with Fripp) was 80.
No cause of death was announced, although Sinfield had been in poor health in recent years.
Sinfield’s whimsical, often bizarre lyrics were a perfect counterpart for the challenging, multi-genre music on King Crimson’s galvanizing 1969 debut “In the Court of the Crimson King” (including the famously Kanye West-sampled song,
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