-Does anyone know Barry Godber?

[esquared]

I didn't. Probably only the old farts will care, or not, but I ran into a story I hadn't come across before.
I am only posting here because i know of a couple posters that use(d) the schizoid man/King Crimson cover as an avatar.
This is just some history behind the album cover.

It stems from a letter written to Peter Sinfield to which he replied. Sinfield was the lyricist for King Crimson as well as
several albums from Emerson Lake and Palmer.

Barry Godber was a computer programmer as well as an aspiring artist. He probably had a future in this.
His lone album cover he illustrated was King Crimson's debut album, he died shorty after at 24 in Feb, 1970.

The letter/story from Peter Sinfield is here for those interested in R&R history/stories.

https://www.batguano.com/bgma/godber.html

and here's another, more detailed story on it.

In The Court of the Crimson King, by King Crimson

Released in 1969, King Crimson's album In the Court of the Crimson King features one of the most iconic album covers of all time. This is its story.

musicaficionado.blog

Here is that young man who created that iconic album cover.

 

[BoomerD]

Didn't know the name, but I DO remember King Crimson...and that album cover.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I have heard of king crimson
I at first I was thinking it was King Diamond from the 80s and:
a) That does not seem like something @esquared would post about
b) the timeline seemed sort of screwy 65 to present???

 

[nakedfrog]

I have heard of king crimson
I at first I was thinking it was King Diamond from the 80s and:
a) That does not seem like something @esquared would post about
b) the timeline seemed sort of screwy 65 to present???

LOL
Yeah, there's a bit of a difference between those bands.

 

[Spacehead]

Woah, King Diamond singing for King Crimson 😱

 

[esquared]

From the second link:

"When completed, Sinfield brought it to the recording studio and laid it on the floor for the group members to look at. All but one were flabbergasted. Greg Lake recalls “We all stood around it, and it was like something out of Treasure Island where you’re all standing around a box of jewels and treasure… This fucking face screamed up from the floor, and what it said to us was ‘schizoid man’ – the very track we’d been working on. It was as if there was something magic going on.” The only one who did not like the painting was drummer Michael Giles, but as Robert Fripp said, he also did not like the name King Crimson.