We’re delighted to report that Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox, maybe Britain’s most beloved entertainers, have returned with a brand new episode of their erratic but undeniably charming Sunday Lunch collection.
The King Crimson man and his extrovert bride have coated Yummy Yummy Yummy, most well-known for the 1968 hit model by American bubblegum pop outfit Ohio Categorical, and a tune so good for the pair’s distinctive model of effervescent leisure that we felt obliged to scour the web for proof that they hadn’t brightened our lives with it already. Seems, they hadn’t.
Most well-known for rhyming “Yummy yummy yummy” with “I’ve bought love in my tummy“, the tune takes on new ranges of greatness in Frippcox’s palms, maybe aided by the duo’s selection of spectacular day-glo hairpieces and Willcox’s eye-catching metallic basque.
In additional earthbound information, final month King Crimson introduced new reissues of In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard on CD. Each initially launched in 1970, the albums can be launched as two-disc, CD and Blu-ray units, and can function new mixes of the album in Dolby Atmos, 5.1 DTS-HD MA, encompass and Hello-Res Stereo by Steven Wilson, plus new Elemental Mixes of chosen tracks in Hello-Res Stereo by David Singleton.
“For me, Lizard has at all times been an album that was too massive for stereo to include,” says Fripp. “I’ve at all times felt that if offered in the best approach, I might make a case for this being probably the most experimental rock file ever made. It’s extraordinary what they’re doing on this album. By way of fusing free jazz with progressive rock, for me there’s nearly no parallel.”
As well as, Lizard will even be reissued on 200g vinyl. All three releases will arrive by way of DGM/Panegryic on October 24.