• Rolling Stone: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp, Toyah Willcox Continue to Break Our Brains With ‘I’m Too Sexy’ Cover: Couple tackle the Right Said Fred classic with some customized lyrics in their latest Sunday Lunch video.
In the year and a half that King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and his wife, singer and actress Toyah Willcox, have been doing their wild and bawdy Sunday Lunch series it’s almost shocking that they hadn’t yet busted out a cover of Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy.” Well, that wait is finally over – Continue reading… (Log In required)
• Classic Rock/Louder: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back and we’re scarred for life: Robert Fripp declares he is “too sexy for King Crimson” in the couple’s jaw-dropping new Sunday Lunch spectacle.
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are one of those couples that you can guarantee would throw an absolute corker of a dinner party. Calendars would be cleared, RSVPs would flood in – especially if they were hosting the party in question on a Sunday.
The couple’s frisky Sunday Lunch offerings became a staple during lockdown, with Fripp and Willcox covering a number of classic tracks to varying degrees of SFW-ness. And with Fripp now back from touring the US with King Crimson, the couple have picked up right where they left off. Sort of – Continue reading…
Watch a tattooed Robert Fripp play Black Sabbath in a prison cell while Toyah dances
You heard us right: Watch a tattooed Robert Fripp play Black Sabbath’s Paranoid in a prison cell while Toyah dances
Imagine: you wake up from a coma in November 2020. You’ve been asleep since Christmas, so you’re entirely unaware of the year’s contents. You don’t know about the virus, or the lockdowns, or that Liverpool are champions and that everything’s been cancelled.
You grab your smartphone, and you log into Facebook to check out what’s been happening in your absence. And the first thing you see is a video of a heavily tattooed Robert Fripp. The King Crimson mastermind is alone sitting in a prison cell, playing Black Sabbath’s Paranoid on a Les Paul. In the background stands his wife of 34 years, the adventurous pop star Toyah Willcox. She dances, and at the point where Ozzy Osbourne would normally start singing, she sings.
King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and wife Toyah release another tongue-in-cheek lockdown video
King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and wife Toyah have released another tongue-in-cheek lockdown video, this time pondering how to get more women to attend King Crimson shows.
“Welcome to Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch,” says Fripp in the new clip. “I asked Toyah’s advice: how do we get more women to come and see King Crimson. And my wife says ‘If women can dance to King Crimson, they’ll be there!'”
• Contine reading at Louder. Watch the new video, “Women Dancing to King Crimson”, below. Browse toyah.net’s News Archive of posts on Toyah and Robert Fripp’s lockdown dances, Sunday lunch videos and more…
The King Crimson guitarist and his wife honour VE heroes with version of the David Bowie song
King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah have released a video of themselves performing a cover of David Bowie’s Heroes (a song Crimson themselves released back in 2017) to celebrate VE Day.
Fripp’s Uncle Bill, aka RAF Flight Sergeant Alfie Fripp, and Toyah’s own relative Beric Wilcox had both been in the armed services, Alfie Fripp even helped in the planning of The Great Escape. Radio 2 even played Bowie’s original version of Heroes in Fripp’s honour when he died, which of course featured his nephew on guitar.
Both Fripp and Toyah have been entertaining fans with humorous videos of themselves during lockdown, including the pair dancing and even performing ballet. Most can be seen on Toyah’s You Tube page.
• Continue reading at Louder. Visit Toyah’s You Tube channel.
• Rolling Stone: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp, Toyah Willcox Continue to Break Our Brains With ‘I’m Too Sexy’ Cover: Couple tackle the Right Said Fred classic with some customized lyrics in their latest Sunday Lunch video.
• Classic Rock/Louder: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back and we’re scarred for life: Robert Fripp declares he is “too sexy for King Crimson” in the couple’s jaw-dropping new Sunday Lunch spectacle.
