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Moonchild (King Crimson song)

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{{Infobox song
| name = Moonchild
| artist = King Crimson
| album = In the Court of the Crimson King
| released = {{Start date|1969|10|12|df=y}}
| format = LP record
| recorded = 31 July 1969
| genre =

Progressive rock
avant-garde^[1]
art rock^[2]
free improvisation^[3]

| length = {{Duration|m=12|s=13}}
| label = Atlantic
| composer =

Robert Fripp
Ian McDonald
Greg Lake
Michael Giles

| lyricist = Peter Sinfield
| producer = King Crimson
| tracks = {{hidden
| title = 5 tracks
| text =

Side one

"21st Century Schizoid Man"
"I Talk to the Wind"
"Epitaph"

Side two

"Moonchild"
"The Court of the Crimson King"

}}

"Moonchild" is the fourth track from the British progressive rock band King Crimson's debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King.

The first section, "The Dream",^[2] is a mellotron-driven ballad, but after two and a half minutes it changes to a completely free-form instrumental improvisation by the band (called "The Illusion"^[2]), which lasts until the end of the song. Robert Fripp plays a snippet of "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top" (from Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!") in this section. In the 2009 remastered version of the album, the track was edited by Fripp and colleague Steven Wilson, with around 2.30 minutes of the original improvisation (the reference by Fripp to "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top") being removed. This issue of the album does, however, offer the original version as a bonus track.

The song also contains a unique alternation between the ride cymbals,^[4] which was praised by music critics and writers.^[5] The song was also described as a "space jam."^[5]

Along with songs by Yes, this song was used in the 1998 movie Buffalo ’66, in the scene in which Christina Ricci tap dances at the bowling alley.

After having been rehearsed in 2013-2014 by King Crimson VIII, the song made its live debut after 48 years on October 18, 2017 in Austin, Texas.

Personnel

Robert Fripp – electric guitar
Michael Giles – drums, percussion
Ian McDonald – mellotron, vibraphone
Greg Lake – vocals
Peter Sinfield – lyrics

Covers

British rock band Doves used the melody from this song for their track "M62 Song".
Rapper MIMS samples the song in his track "Doctor Doctor".
"Moonchild" has also been interpreted by the Italian psychedelic progressive rock band Twenty Four Hours on the album The Smell of The Rainy Air, in 1991

References

1. ^Macan (2009), p.24
2. ^¹²Smith (2009), p.72
3. ^Barker (2006), p.180
4. ^Everett (2008), p.16
5. ^¹Martin (1998), p.159

Sources

{{cite book | title=33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1 | publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group | author=Barker, David | year=2006 | isbn=0826419038}}
{{cite book | title=The Foundations of Rock : From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes": From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Everett, Walter | year=2008 | isbn=0199718709}}
{{cite book | title=Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Macan, Edward | year=1997 | isbn=0195098870 }}
{{cite book | title=Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978 | publisher=Open Court Publishing | author=Martin, Bill | year=1998 | isbn=081269368X}}
{{cite book | title=One Hundred One Albums that Changed Popular Music | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Smith, Chris | year=2009 | isbn=0195373715}}

External links

{{MetroLyrics song|king-crimson|moonchild}}

{{King Crimson}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Moonchild (King Crimson Song)}}In the Court of the Crimson King#Moonchild

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