King Crimson
Records a drum instructional tape for Axis Video called “Bruford and the Beat” in New York.
Painful King Crimson rehearsals follow in the Garment District, and the band road-tests the results with more US and UK road work before recording the difficult follow-up album at Odyssey in London. Tea-breaks are taken to the unbelievable televised back-drop of a UK Taskforce going to reclaim the Falkland Islands from Argentina.
The first of several crises between Fripp and various band members, (on this album, Belew), are barely weathered, and the band tours to support “Beat” through the summer, first in the US, then in a co-headline European tour with Roxy Music. Buoyed by the support of Tama drums, accepts an 8 date October clinic tour in the US with Bill Reim, the company’s representative.