The months before Sylvian/Fripp first stepped into the public gaze were dominated for Robert Fripp by a dispute with his management company, EG. ‘From April ’91 to March ’92, when I first played in Japan with David Sylvian and Trey Gunn, that was virtually full time, my life. Miserable. I’m dying…No artist can stand and fight something like this, because you give up two or three years of your career, at the least. It brought me close to bankruptcy, because of instead of working, I spent a year purely dealing with it.’
Robert’s royalties had not been paid and he would discover that income had been diverted to meet debts incurred by individuals with unlimited liability to the London insurance market, as so called “Lloyd’s names”. ‘In order to keep themselves solvent they used any money that was available to them, including their artists’. And in order to meet their liabilities they sold the EG record catalogue and the EG publishing catalogue, including all my work. And in my cases, they didn’t have the right to do so.’
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