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Wakeman doesn’t take playing live for granted having been thrown for a loop when the pandemic and its accompanying lockdown put him into the same conundrum as many other musicians who were precl ...
Legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman is set to grace the stage at Wolf Trap’s The Barns on March 27 at 8 p.m., kicking off a solo tour he revealed will be his last one ever. “This is the first ...
The upside is, in this instance, seeing an undisputed genius at work. I bought Rick Wakeman’s Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table when it came out in 1975.
Discussing his own organ solo on Yes’s Close To The Edge with YouTuber Rick Beato, Wakeman cites what he calls the ‘John Entwistle My Generation syndrome’, and goes on to explain what that ...
If are looking to find its true essence, though, no one individual fits the description more than 75-year-old keyboardist and composer Rick Wakeman. Wakeman has since been in and out of the ...
Campaigners are hopeful the new Labour government will re-evaluate plans to create energy infrastructure in the Suffolk countryside following a rally attended by 500 people. Famous faces ...
The show comes courtesy of legend of progressive rock Rick Wakeman. And he can’t wait to perform his 1974 chart-topping concept album to a rapt audience of up to 20,000 people. “I played there ...
Between mouthfuls of morning coffee, Rick Wakeman is trying to summarise his time with Yes, the band that he joined in 1971, and left, for the fifth and apparently final time, in 2005.
Rick Wakeman has shared memories of his "best friend" and Dad's Army star, Ian Lavender. Lavender, who played Private Pike in the BBC comedy series, was the last surviving main cast member and ...
“After I joined Yes in 1971, when I was eleven . . . eleven stone, that is,” quips the portly ... which must have helped keep the young Adam Wakeman in nappies. The vinyl format meant that Rick was ...
Getty Rick Wakeman is best-known for his role in rock band Yes as well as for his solo work in the Seventies. The Londoner quit his studies at the Royal College Of Music in favour of becoming a ...