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Robert Fripp
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OverviewAI-generated
Robert Fripp is a British male musician whose career began in 1966. He is associated with genres including progressive rock, ambient, experimental, art rock, and drone. His musical output has been tagged with terms such as guitar and soundscape.
As an author, Fripp has published six works. These include *John Wetton an Extraordinary Life*, *Wessex Tales*, *Avant rock*, *The Becoming*, and *Let there be life*. Crossref data indicates he has five works listed in that database.
Fripp maintains an official website and an online shop. His music has accumulated 2,784,579 plays from 199,671 listeners on Last.fm. He has 68,700 social media followers.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- John Wetton an Extraordinary Life
- Wessex Tales
- Avant rock
- The Becoming
- Let there be life
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1946-05-16
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 199,671
- Total plays
- 2,784,579
Tags
Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, United Kingdom) is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson. His work, spanning five decades, encompasses a variety of musical styles. Fripp began playing guitar at the age of eleven. He says he was tone-deaf with no sense of rhythm when he started. His comment <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Fripp"
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,762x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,528x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,809x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,782x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,465x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1946-05-16 ) 16 May 1946 (age 80) , Wimborne Minster , Dorset, England
- Genres
- Art rock progressive rock post-progressive ambient experimental
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter producer
- Instruments
- Guitar keyboards synthesizers
- Years active
- 1967–2009 2013–present
- Labels
- E.G. Virgin Discipline Global Mobile
- Member of
- King Crimson
- Formerly of
- Giles, Giles and Fripp Fripp & Eno The League of Gentlemen FFWD
- Spouse
- Toyah Willcox ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 16 May 1986</span>"}]]}'>1986 )
- Website
- dgmlive .com /robert-fripp
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and only constant member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. He has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborator, notably with David Bowie, Blondie, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, Daryl Hall, the Roches, Talking Heads, and David Sylvian. He also composed the startup sound of Windows Vista, in collaboration with Tucker Martine and Steve Ball. His discography includes contributions to more than 700 official releases.
His compositions often feature unusual asymmetric rhythms, influenced by classical and folk traditions. His innovations include a tape delay system known as "Frippertronics" (superseded in the 1990s by a more sophisticated digital system called "Soundscapes") and New Standard Tuning.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Fripp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.