=-> Quoting Stuart Dubois to Martin Ridgley re: King Crimson being 
 =-> named after a character in a Stephen King novel......
 SD> I think this may be a joke.  I doubt many Englishmen had heard of
 SD> Stephen King in 1968-9.
   That's what I thought, too.  I don't know *exactly* when Kings' writing 
 career began, but at the earliest I thought it was late 60s or early 70s.
 M> I know the name `The Crimson King' is also used for a character in a
 M> book called "Insomnia" by Stephen King, but I've always thought that he
 M> got the name from the band rather than the other way around.
 SD> That sounds like Stephen King.
   That's what I thought, too.  He's often quoted or made references to 
 rock songs in his books, and this seemed quite an obvious one to me.
    Cheers,
             Martin
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