Inspired by a plethora of musical stylings, Primus bassist and frontman Les Claypool highlighted one 1970s UK rock-cut as the ultimate in skill.

Startlingly different to anything preceding it, the record incorporated adventurous time signatures and other ... Yet at the end of May 1974, following Rick Wakeman’s decision to quit the ...

and Tony Kaye nodding to Rick Wakeman. It’s a stunning reassertion of the power of the group, offering a potted history of the band. Anderson’s exhortation to ‘give me more of the same/There ...

Apparently I was one of the last musicians seen talking to him before his death”: Rick Wakeman’s wild tales of John Lennon ... “Same with Pete Brown [Cream’s lyricist, who at the time of Cream was ...

8: Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine, etc.) A key player in the fertile ... of Yes’ “On the Silent Wings of Freedom.” Or the Rick Wakeman solo track “Crime of Passion,” where he enters two ...

Pop star made his life-changing decision at a Camel concert, before discovering the work of keyboard genius Wakeman via Yes ...

(“It was a horrible time. The hardest thing was not being able to visit or see people because I’m a people person.”) For this Final Solo Tour of the USA, expect Wakeman to parlay his deep ...

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser cares so deeply for Yes that his band named an album after one of the prog giants’ songs ...

Reliving 1942 at the real-life Rick’s Café Casablanca, now a symbol of resilience and connection like the one in the ...