Fallen Angel (song)

Song_infobox
Name = Fallen Angel


Artist = King Crimson
Album = Red
Released = November, 1974
track_no = 2
Recorded = 1974
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 6:16
Writer = Robert Fripp, Richard Palmer-James, John Wetton
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = King Crimson
[Chart Position =
prev = Red
next = One More Red Nightmare
prev_no = 1
next_no = 3

"Fallen Angel" is a song by progressive rock band King Crimson, the second track on their album "Red". The verse is in 4/4 time with the chorus in 6/8.

The song is presumably about a boy who gets his younger brother to join the gang he is in, and eventually watches him die in a fight.

"Fallen Angel" is the last King Crimson recording to date to feature Robert Fripp playing acoustic guitar. On subsequent recordings, he has played only electric guitar. The song began as part of an extended instrumental improvisatory piece performed by the original 1972-74 line-up with Jamie Muir and David Cross. A version of this early piece, also titled "Improv: Fallen Angel" can be heard on the King Crimson Collectors' Club release "Live at the Zoom Club October 1972".

The influence of Bela Bartok is noticable in the guitar riff.