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The Court of the Crimson
King, by Barry Godber |
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Barry
Godber was a
young English
artist turned
computer programmer
when his friend
Pete Sinfield
played him a
recording by
a new band with
hopes that he
would agree
to illustrate
the cover art
for an upcoming
album. The band
was called King
Crimson, and
the bizarre
self-portrait
he created became
an iconic image
of psychotic
madness, like
an echo of Munch's
The Scream for
the late Twentieth
Century. Godber
died tragically
of heart failure,
mere months
after creating
the work. |
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