Lizard (album)

Lizard is the third studio album by English progressive rock band King Crimson, released on 11 December 1970 by Island Records in the United Kingdom, and in January 1971 by Atlantic Records in the United States and Canada. It was the second consecutive King Crimson album recorded by a line-up of the group that ultimately never played any live shows, following In the Wake of Poseidon. It was the band's second album with saxophonist/flautist Mel Collins, their second and last album with vocalist/bass guitarist Gordon Haskell (and the only one where he was both the main vocalist and the bass guitarist, as he only sang one song and played no instruments on the previous album), and their only album with drummer Andy McCulloch. Guitarist Robert Fripp and lyricist Peter Sinfield, at this point the band's two remaining original members, completed the core Lizard line-up.