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About In the Court of the Crimson King : In the Court of the Crimson King is one of the first and most influential of the progressive rock genre . The band combined the blues influences that rock music was founded upon with elements of jazz, classical, and symphonic music . The album reached number five on the UK Albums Chart and number 28 on the US Billboard 200 . It was reissued several times in the 1980s and 1990s using inferior copies of the master tapes . The original masters were discovered in the Virgin archives in 2003 . King Crimson made their live debut on 9 April 1969 at The Speakeasy Club in London . They opened for the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park, London in July 1969 . Its music is influenced by genres - progressive rock.