Boz Burrell

King Crimson has produced enough alumni, amid its myriad membership changes, break-ups, and re-assemblies over the decades to fill a decent sized symphony orchestra. Robert Fripp may be the Crimson mastermind, and Greg Lake its most familiar ex-member as a singer, but singer bassist Boz Burrell is right up there with Lake as the most successful ex-member. Born Raymond Burrell and known simply as Boz for much of his pre-1970's career, he became a progressive rock hero as a member of Crimson and one of the most famous bassists in the world as a founding member of Bad Company. For a decade before any of that, however, he paid his dues, working in a succession of promising but unsuccessful '60s bands as a vocalist, mostly in a rock and white British soul idiom.



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