Robert Fripp suffered a heart attack last month.

The KING CRIMSON leader and his wife Toyah Willcox released another video on her channel recently. Instead of the usual energetic song covers or even some of their funnier moments together, the pair shared the unfortunate news about Fripp’s health.

Last month, as Fripp was preparing for a flight to Italy for a performance at an Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists event at Castione della Presolana in Bergamo, he felt something akin to acid reflux. As he explained:

“I’d been suffering what I considered to be acid reflux for a couple weeks before, following my return from ‘Cruise to the Edge’ with David Singleton. And I had this in 2019, and I thought, ‘All right. A little acid reflux. Deal with this.’ But on the Saturday morning I flew, it felt a little bit more”

On the morning he was supposed to fly, Fripp emailed the event organizers, asking them to provide a doctor upon his arrival. As Fripp mentioned chest pains, the organizers opted to take him to Bergamo Hospital, the leading cardiac hospital in Italy.

Fripp was tested and admitted to intensive care. He then underwent two separate emergency surgeries. ‘When the doctor showed me the diagrams on the computer,” Fripp recalled. “She said, ‘Your heart, globally, is good. But you have these concerns.’ And I said, ‘Alright, I want to check myself out and fly home.”

Fripp is recovering well from the ordeal. He maintained a positive attitude throughout the video, even sharing something he found funny from his visit to the emergency room:

“Well, here’s the interesting bit: I was in A&E not quite knowing what was going on other than I knew they were going to do something, and an orderly came along and shaved my balls!”

“Now, the dear man, I really didn’t wish his job on him at that point. Now this is the thing: So you’re concerned with my heart, fine. What are you doing shaving my balls?”

Upon his release from the hospital, Fripp immediately went to the Castione della Presolana to play his show. Can’t keep a good musician down.