Studio - 1. In the Court of the Crimson King, June - August 1969, Wessex Sound Studios, London.[Island Records] October10, 1969.

Studio - 1. In the Court of the Crimson King

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In the Court of the Crimson King
Studio album by King Crimson
Released	October 10, 1969
Recorded	June-August 1969, Wessex Sound Studios, London
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	43:54
Label	Island (UK) Atlantic (U.S.) Vertigo (New Zealand)
Producer	King Crimson
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King Crimson chronology
In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)
Singles from In the Court of the Crimson King
"The Court of the Crimson King" Released: 1969

In the Court of the Crimson King (an observation by King Crimson) is the 1969 debut album by the British progressive rock group King Crimson. The album reached #3 on the British charts. The album is certified gold in the United States.^[1]

The album is generally viewed as one of the strongest of the progressive rock genre, where King Crimson largely stripped away the blues-based foundations of rock music and mixed together with jazz and European symphonic elements. In his 1997 book Rocking the Classics, critic and musicologist Edward Macan notes that In the Court of the Crimson King "may be the most influential progressive rock album ever released".^[2] The Who's Pete Townshend was quoted as calling the album "an uncanny masterpiece".^[3]

The album was remastered and re-released on vinyl and CD several times during the 1980s and 1990s, although all these versions were based on masters that had some inevitable tape degradation. The original first-generation stereo master tapes were finally located in a Virgin Records storage vault in 2003, leading to a much improved remastered CD version released in 2004 and a surround sound mix to be released in 2009 for the album's 40th anniversary.