Asia's original lineup: >John Wetton from King Crimson >Steve Howe from Yes >the guy from the Buggles >the drummer from ELP I am going to listen to them now. There is no way a band with this lineup can possibly fail. This is NWO levels of stacked. I will be disappointed if they suck.
>John Wetton only left the band because Fripp disbanded King Crimson after being huckstered by some spiritualist fraud cult that convinced him to stop doing music >Wetton wanted to continue my headcanon is "Starless" was just a description of the post-Wetton King Crimson roster
>The original chords and melody for "Starless" were written by King Crimson bassist John Wetton, who had intended for the song to be the title track of Starless and Bible Black.[3] Guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Bill Bruford initially disliked the song and declined to record it for that album,[4][5] I realised I don't actually like King Crimson, I only like John Wetton