League of Gentlemen (band)

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League of Gentlemen was a late-1970s band featuring guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson. Other members included bass guitarist Sara Lee (who later joined Gang of Four), keyboardist Barry Andrews (formerly of XTC; later of Shriekback) and drummer Johnny Toobad. The name had previously been used by Fripp's first semi-professional band in the 1960s.

The Trouser Press Record Guide describes the League of Gentlemen's music as typically taking "a simple medium-to-fast backbeat over which Fripp and Andrews locked horns, with melodic development emerging slowly, surely, subtly."(Fleischmann & Robbins 1991, p. 263) Trouser Press also suggests that the League's foray into danceable rock led Fripp to reform King Crimson in the early 1980s.(Grant & Fleischmann 1991, p. 367)

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  • Grant, Steven & Fleischmann, Mark (1991), "Robert Fripp" in Ira A. Robbins, ed., The Trouser Press Record Guide, New York: Collier Books, ISBN 0-02-036361-3, p. 263
  • Fleischmann, Mark & Robbins, Ira A. (1991), "Robert Fripp" in Ira A. Robbins, ed., The Trouser Press Record Guide, New York: Collier Books, ISBN 0-02-036361-3, p. 367


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