Keith Tippett appears on Top of the Pops

25 March 1970: Number 37 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicWhen King Crimson appeared on Top of the Pops, they looked like the rock gods they almost were, with long hair, loon pants and expensive gear. Side-whiskered guest pianist Keith Tippett, however, seemed to have stepped out of Dr Who's Tardis from a parallel Brit-jazz universe. Reading from a crumpled sheet of manuscript propped on the upright acoustic piano, Tippett added thrilling cascades of spiky dissonan...

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