The band consisted of Greg Lake – bass, lead vocals, Robert Fripp – guitar, and Michael Giles – drums. Attempting to expand their sound, the three recruited Ian McDonald on keyboards, reeds and woodwinds. The famous “In the Court of the Crimson King” album cover painted by Barry Godber portrays the ‘Schizoid Man,’ but the band didn’t plan it that way. Greg Lake explained: "I remember getting about halfway through the record and we realized we didn’t have an album cover. None of us knew anything at all about graphical art. But Pete (Sinfield) said, ‘I’ve got a friend who’s a graphic artist. He may be able to do something.’ So he said, ‘Okay, Pete. Give him a chance. See if he can come up with an idea for the album cover.’ And it just so happened on the day when he turned up we were recording ‘Schizoid Man.’ The door opened in the studio and there stood this young man. Pete called him over, said, ‘Come over, Barry, meet the band.’ As he walked over we realized he had a brown parcel under his arm wrapped up in string. After we’d said hello, he took a pair of scissors out of his pocket and he slit the string and tore off the paper parcel. And at our feet he dropped this album cover. And, you know, the remarkable thing about it, apart from it is obviously a fantastic work of art, but we were actually staring into the face of Schizoid Man. The incredible thing was that we’d only recorded that song that very afternoon. There was no way that he could have possibly known or heard it, because we hadn’t heard it ourselves. And so it was an incredible coincidence." A tragic development with that story was that young Barry, who did this, was only 21 years old at the time. And three days later he was walking down the street and he dropped dead of a heart attack. Of course, we were stunned. We were absolutely stunned. And we just didn’t know what to do. But we loved the album cover, and we felt that it was a wonderful tribute to this very talented young man.