History Music / RedKingCrimsonAlbum

''Red'' was to be the final album for the band, who broke up shortly before release, and sales were among their weakest at the time, only peaking at 45 in the UK album chart before vanishing from the chart altogether a week later. In the aftermath of the album, Bill Bruford and John Wetton formed the supergroup Music/{{UK}} while Robert Fripp quietly retired out of ArtistDisillusionment, believing that prog as a whole had become too conventional for his liking. He would reemerge three years later as a producer and session musician. Bruford and Fripp would eventually reform the band in 1981 with a new lineup.

* Robert Fripp - guitars, Mellotron, Hohner pianet

''Red'' is the seventh album by English ProgressiveRock band Music/KingCrimson, released on 6 October 1974 through Creator/IslandRecords in the United Kingdom and Creator/AtlanticRecords in North America and Japan. After the departure of violinist David Cross in the aftermath of King Crimson's 1974 tour in support of ''Starless and Bible Black''[[note]]one improvisation in Providence, Rhode Island wound up getting featured in this album; the resulting track "Providence" was Cross' final contribution[[/note]], the band continued the sound that they've established from ''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'' onwards but went with a layered production that led to the album being the band's heaviest in spite of now being a three-piece band. The density of the album was attributed to the rhythm contributions of John Wetton and Music/BillBruford, and there were even guest contributions from past incarnations of the band.

''Red'' was to be the final album for the band, who broke up shortly before release, and sales were among their weakest at the time, only peaking at 45 in the UK album chart before vanishing from the chart altogether a week later. In the aftermath of the album, Bill Bruford and John Wetton formed the supergroup Music/{{UK}} while Robert Fripp quietly retired, reemerging three years later as a producer and session musician. Bruford and Fripp would eventually reform the band in 1981 with a new lineup.

''Red'' was to be the final album for the band, who broke up shortly before release. Sales were among their weakest at the time, only peaking at 45 in the UK album chart before vanishing from the chart altogether a week later, but it garnered contemporary and retrospective critical acclaim. As of 2020, it is ranked #681 in Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums most critically-acclaimed albums of all time list]]. In the aftermath of the album, Bill Bruford and John Wetton formed the supergroup Music/{{UK}} while Robert Fripp quietly retired, reemerging three years later as a producer and session musician. Bruford and Fripp would eventually reform the band in 1981 with a new lineup.

''Red'' was to be the final album for the band, who broke up shortly before release. Sales were among their weakest at the time, only peaking at 45 in the UK album chart before vanishing from the chart altogether a week later, but it garnered contemporary and retrospective critical acclaim, with critics and fans alike regarding it as one of their best. As of 2020, it is ranked #681 in Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums most critically-acclaimed albums of all time list]]. In the aftermath of the album, Bill Bruford and John Wetton formed the supergroup Music/{{UK}} while Robert Fripp quietly retired, reemerging three years later as a producer and session musician. Bruford and Fripp would eventually reform the band in 1981 with a new lineup.

* FaceOnTheCover: The only album in King Crimson's discography to feature this, portraying Bruford, Wetton and Fripp from left to right.

''Red'' was to be the final album for the band, who broke up shortly before release. Sales were among their weakest at the time, only peaking at 45 in the UK album chart before vanishing from the chart altogether a week later, but it garnered contemporary and retrospective critical acclaim, with critics and fans alike regarding it as one of their best. As of 2020, it is ranked #681 in Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums most critically-acclaimed albums of all time list]]. In the aftermath of the album, Bill Bruford and John Wetton formed the supergroup Music/{{UK}} while Robert Fripp went on to be a producer. Bruford and Fripp will eventually reform the band in 1981 with a new lineup.

* LongestSongGoesLast: Standing at just over twelve minutes, "Starless" closes out the album already fillex with long tracks.

''Red'' is the seventh album by English ProgressiveRock band Music/KingCrimson, released on 6 October 1974 through Creator/IslandRecords in the United Kingdom and Creator/AtlanticRecords in North America and Japan. After the departure of violinist David Cross in the aftermath of King Crimson's 1974 tour in support of ''Starless and Bible Black''[[note]]one improvisation in Providence, Rhode Island wound up getting featured in this album; the resulting track "Providence" was Cross' final contribution[[/note]], the band continued the sound that they've established from ''Lark's Tongues in Aspic'' onwards but went with a layered production that led to the album being the band's heaviest in spite of now being a three-piece band. The density of the album was attributed to the rhythm contributions of John Wetton and Music/BillBruford, and there were even guest contributions from past incarnations of the band.

* [[Music/{{Asia}} John Wetton]] - bass, vocals

-->"Starless"

** Cornet player Mark Charig played the cornet for "Starless".

''Red'' was to be the final album for the band, who broke up shortly before release. Sales were among their weakest at the time, only peaking at 45 in the UK album chart before vanishing from the chart altogether a week later, but it garnered contemporary and retrospective critical acclaim, with critics and fans alike regarding it as one of their best. As of 2020, it is ranked #681 in Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums most critically-acclaimed albums of all time list]].

''Red'' was to be the final album for the band, who broke up shortly before release. Sales were among their weakest at the time, only peaking at 45 in the UK album chart before vanishing from the chart altogether a week later, but it garnered contemporary and retrospective critical acclaim, with critics and fans alike regarding it as one of their best. As of 2020, it is ranked #681 in Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums most critically-acclaimed lists of all time]].

->''Sundown dazzling day\\

* DroneOfTheDread: A large part of "Providence" was an unnerving drone from an improvisation during a concert in Providence, Rhode Island.