Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” Remade by Robert Fripp and Toyah
This year too, Robert Fripp and Toyah they left the kitchen of their home to spend the summer on stage and brought around their “Sunday Lunch”. As in 2023, the participation of the couple formed by the leader of King Crimson and his wife was unmissable Isle of Wight Festival. A couple of months later, as part of their series that has seen them perform homely, fun covers of rock and pop classics since the start of the pandemic in 2020, Fripp and Toyah they have released the video with the official and professional recording of their cover of “Enter Sandman” by Metallica.
“We take you back in time to a band that really left us speechless. These are Metallica!”, we hear the singer say as an introduction to the performance:
The cover of the Four Horsemen classic was originally proposed by Robert Fripp and Toyah in January 2021The video, now made private and which saw the singer in sexy clothing performing the song on an exercise bike, had brought “Sunday Lunch” to a vast audiencefilling up on contacts.
As for Robert Fripp’s “more serious” career, last week the release of a 50th anniversary box set of “Red”, the historic 1974 King Crimson album and often considered by critics one of the greatest masterpieces of progressive rock, was announced. commemorative box set will be available from next October 11th via DGM and Panegyric Records.