[00:03.450]Welcome![00:04.400]I'm David Singleton, producer of King Crimson 50[00:09.950]To celebrate King Crimson's 50th anniversary[00:12.450]This year we will be releasing 50 rare or interesting King Crimson tracks[00:17.050]One a week, starting on the 13th of January[00:20.200]Which is King Crimson's birthday, the day in 1969[00:23.650]When they first began rehearsing in the Fulham Palace Café in London[00:31.250]Appropriately the first track is 21st Century Schizoid Man[00:34.800]The opening track on their first album[00:39.200]This particular version also dates to my own first involvement with the band[00:43.350]When I first worked with Robert Fripp and helped to compile the Frame By Frame box set in 1991[00:52.900]I recall exactly how this radio edit came to be made[00:56.650]The record label, Virgin Records, were keen that there'll be a radio-friendly version of 21st Century Schizoid Man[01:01.700]To help to promote the box set[01:04.050]And I recall Robert Fripp telling them that there was no such thing as the track was about 7 minutes 30 long[01:11.950]And in my naive innocence of King Crimson, I recall telling him[01:15.050]"Well of course there's a shorter version"[01:16.650]Because I can remember when I very first heard this song, thinking[01:20.200]"What a wonderful first verse, what a wonderful second verse, what a wonderful third verse[01:24.550]and what on earth are all those solos doing in the middle? "[01:30.750]In proving that he has a sense of humour, Robert Fripp suggested that I try making exactly that edit[01:37.600]I'm not sure that I'd be entirely satisfied with it these days[01:40.850]But here it is, the radio edit of 21st Century Schizoid Man in 1991