Studio - 9. Beat (King Crimson album), 1982.[E.G., Virgin Records] June 18, 1982, rereleased January 16, 2006.

Studio - 9. Beat (King Crimson album)

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It has been suggested that Neal and Jack and Me and Sartori in Tangier be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

Beat
Studio album by King Crimson
Released	June 18, 1982
Recorded	1982
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	35:19
Label	E.G. Records Warner Bros./E.G. Virgin Records
Producer	Rhett Davies
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King Crimson chronology
Discipline (1981) Beat (1982) Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)

Beat is an album by the British rock band King Crimson, released in 1982.

According to the Trouser Press Record Guide, the album focused on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's On the Road.^[1] The album makes several references to the writings of the beat generation:

• "Neal and Jack and Me" is the track most obviously inspired by beat writers. The 'Jack' of the title is beat writer Jack Kerouac, and the 'Neal' of the title is Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady.
• "Heartbeat" is also the name of the book written by Carolyn Cassady, Neal's wife, about her experiences with the Beats.
• "Sartori [sic] in Tangier" also derives its title from beat influences including the Jack Kerouac novel Satori in Paris, and the city of Tangier in Morocco, where a number of beat writers resided and which they often used as a setting for their writing. Writer Paul Bowles was associated with the beats, and his novel The Sheltering Sky, which provided the title for a track on King Crimson's previous studio album, Discipline, is partly set in Tangier.
• "Neurotica" shares its title with Neurotica, a Beat-era magazine.^[2][3]
• "The Howler" refers to the beat poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg, which Fripp suggested to Belew as inspiration for the lyrics.

The Chapman Stick introduction to "Sartori in Tangier" is featured in the first scene of the premiere of the MTV show The Maxx.

Of King Crimson's thirteen studio albums, this is the only album that does not have a title track, although its title is included in the name of the song "Heartbeat".