Ian McDonald of King Crimson and Foreigner dies at 75 RIP

     Truly a huge loss.  A founder of King Crimson.  What a clarinet, flute, saxophone player( woodwind and reeds) along with mellotron, keyboards guitar and songwriter of eclectic and beautiful progressive music.  He played all keyboards and mellotron in addition to reeds and woodwind on ITCOTKC. Ian was involved in the songwriting on every song from this release and wrote the instrumental parts to I talk to the Wind and In the Court of the Crimson King solely with Peter Sinfield writing lyrics. RIP Sir McDonald.  Your music and spirit live on!

@russ69 - I was talking about Foreigner... 

 Donald and Giles is the one that started me down the prog rock path.

For me it was the first King Crimson album; the one thing that immediately struck me besides how great it all sounded was the intricacy and power of the drumming. Almost always among the most important positions in a prog-rock band is the drummer, I think. Bill Bruford indeed, and of course the brilliant Phil Collins among them.