Guitarist Robert Fripp’s band was enormously influential in Britain’s rock scene in the early 70s, playing songs written by Sinfield while he ran their light show and generally moved the band forward in any way he could.
The London-born Sinfield had all sorts of useful connections for a band on the rise. As the band evolved Sinfield picked up production duties and played synthesisers, but he and Fripp clashed and Sinfield departed for a solo career and to write and record a new band called Roxy Music.
After retiring to Ibiza for several years, Sinfield returned to London and reinvented himself as a pop song writer, penning hits for Bucks Fizz, Celine Dion, Leo Sayer and Cher, among others. In 2014, he reunited with King Crimson when Fripp invited him to contribute lyrics to an updated version of the band’s first hit 21st Century Schizoid Man.
Sinfield died on November 14 aged 80. — Agencies