The poet Peter Sinfield passed away yesterday at the age of 80. Yes, the poet – for Pete was much more then a mere lyricist, although a unique one because else could sculpt a phrase like “I need to suck the breasts of time and freeze her milk in ink” and to write, with equal ease, stanzas which were performed by such incomparable artists as KING CRIMSON and Celine Dion. Of course, Sinfield will forever be associated with former, rather than later, for without him the British ensemble would not have neither their sinister name nor the conceptual vision projected from the "In The Court Of The Crimson King" album – whose very cover got commissioned by the word-weaver so fortunately brought inti the fold by Ian McDonald – onwards.
