Robert Fripp & The Death of Gwen Stacy Timeline

Robert Fripp & The Death of Gwen Stacy Timeline

I've been working on this blogpost since the beginning of 2016. I decided to make a timeline to help me with the narrative. The highlighted words are links.

• 1949 October 29 - Gurdjieff dies in France
• 1971 - John G. Bennett founds the IACE
• 1973 February - Libyan Flight 114 shot down by Israel over the Sinai
• 1973 June & July - The Amazing Spider Man #121 and #122 "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" hits newsstands
• 1973 November - No Pussyfooting by Fripp & Eno released
• 1974 September 25 - King Crimson formally disbanded
• 1974 October - King Crimson’s Red released
• 1974 October - Fripp attends the 10 month long 5th course of IACE at Sherborne
• 1977 - Fripp joins Bowie & Eno in Berlin to record Heroes
• 1977 - Fripp and girlfriend Joanna Walton (a New York native) decamp to Hell’s Kitchen (later the Bowery)
• 1977 - Fripp records Sacred Songs with Daryl Hall. The album is not released until 1980
• 1978 May 7 - Robert Fripp & Blondie play at CBGB’s at a benefit for Johnny Blitz
• 1978 June 2 - Peter Gabriel’s second album released. It was intended to be part of a trilogy along with Daryl Hall’s Sacred Songs and Fripp’s Exposure
• 1978 August 31 - Disappearance of Musa al-Sadr in Libya
• 1978 September - Parallel Lines released, Fripp plays on Fade Away & Radiate
• 1978 December - An image from Fripp & Debbie Harry’s photo shoot for the unmade remake of Alphaville appears on the cover of Melody Maker
• 1979 - Fripp appears on The Boffomundo Show
• 1979 May 19 - Fripp appears on SNL with Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow
• 1979 June - Exposure released featuring lyrics by Joanna Walton
• 1979 - U.S. places Libya on the “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list
• 1980 January - God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners released
• 1980 December - Fripp meets Gilda Radner backstage at a Hall & Oates Christmas show. Radner is dating Hall at the time.
• 1981 April 30 - Discipline debuts at Moles Club in Bath, Somerset
• 1981 August - U.S. shoots down two Libyan planes
• 1981 September 22 - King Crimson releases Discipline
• 1982 - Fripp & Andy Summers release I Advance Masked
• 1984 April 17 - Yvonne Fletcher murdered outside the Libyan embassy in London
• 1985 October - Toyah & Fripp meet at a charity luncheon
• 1985 December 27 - Rome and Vienna airport attacks
• 1986 - Toyah & Fripp: The Lady or the Tiger? Released
• 1986 March - Gulf of Sidra incident
• 1986 April 5 - La Belle Discotheque bombing 1:45 a.m.
• 1986 April 15 - U.S. bombing raid of Libya
• 1986 May 16 - Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp get married
• 1987 - Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson get married
• 1988 December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland. Joanna Walton is killed along with 269 others
• 2001 January 31 - Megrahi found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment
• 2006 - Exposure re-released as a 24-bit 2-disc remaster
• 2009 August 20 - Megrahi released from a Scottish prison due to prostate cancer
• 2011 October 20 - Gaddafi captured and killed during the Battle of Sirte
• 2012 May 20 - Megrahi dies of prostate cancer.
• 2012 to Present - No one else has ever been charged in the Lockerbie Bombing, but the case is still open. Robert Fripp remains active as a musician in King Crimson. He and Toyah are happily married. Exposure has benefited from retrospective reviews and is considered to be the definitive Art Rock masterpiece to emerge out of NYC’s late 70’s New Wave music scene and it is a fitting tribute to Joanna Walton who provided most of the lyrics. Peter Parker still holds a place in his heart for Gwen Stacy.