King Crimson holy grail: Lost 1970 TV performance of ‘Cat Food’ found! — dangerousminds.net

This March 1970 Top of the Pops performance by King Crimson circa their In the Wake of Poseidon album was long thought to have been wiped by the BBC, but now some 45 years later, it’s turned up in black & white, taken from a Swiss-German TV series that often used TOTP clips called Hits a Go-Go. Doing a lip-sync to their “Cat Food” single, this is the sole known footage of Greg Lake, Keith Tippett, Michael Giles, Robert Fripp and (a sharply dressed) Peter Giles together onstage.

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