John Wetton ‎- King’s Road: 1972-1980 (1987) [Original US Pressing] {Vinyl Rip 24Bit/96khz}

This collection, marking the end of John Wetton’s association with E.G. Records, is a somewhat skewed compilation of his work in the seventies. Five songs by U.K., five from his first solo album, one track listed as coming from the one album from his seventy-nine one-off band Jack-Knife (the track isn’t listed on sites I can find for the album, so I presume it was left off of the LP), and, strangely, only two tracks by King Crimson (and only one of these was on the original LP version). For the most part, the sonds tend toward Wetton’s pop side, a direction he was heading in when U.K. was declining. At least the U.K. songs have a small amount of prog in them. The songs from “Caught In The Crossfire” are just a small hair better (for the most part) than the AOR drivel Wetton created in Asia.
The better songs are In The Dead Of Night, from U.K.’s debut, and Starless (the track not on the LP) dfrom King Crimson’s “Red”.
Eyesight To The Blind by Wetton’s Jack-Knife (which also included Richard Palmer-James) is worth hearing just because it’s so different from any other version I know of, but only adds slight value to this collection.

Review by Evolver, progarchives.com

Side A
Nothing To Lose
In The Dead Of Night
Baby Come Back
Caught In The Crossfire
Night After Night

Side B
Turn On The Radio
Rendezvous
Book Of Saturday
Paper Talk
As Long As You Want Me Here
Cold Is The Night

– John Wetton / lead & backing vocals, bass, keyboards, guitars
– Robert Fripp / guitars, keyboards
– Allan Holdsworth / guitars
– Martin Barre / guitars
– Phil Manzanera / guitars
– Eddie Jobson / keyboards, violins
– David Cross / keyboards
– Mel Collins / saxophones
– Malcolm Duncan / saxophones
– Ian MacDonald / saxophones
– Bill Bruford / drums
– Simon Kirke /drums
– Terry Bozzio / drums
– Curt Cress / drums
Compiled By – John Wetton
Releases information
LP – EGLP 70
This album contains tracks from:
Larks Tongues in Aspic – King Crimson (1)
UK – UK (1)
Danger Money – UK (2)
Night after night (live) – UK (2)
Caught in the Crossfire – John Wetton (5)