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Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, producer, television and radio presenter, actor and author. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s.
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Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, producer, television and radio presenter, and author. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. He is a current member of Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.
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2016 five CD set containing a quintet of albums by the iconic prog keyboardist packaged together in a slimline slipcase. Includes the albums The Six Wives Of Henry VIII, Journey To The Centre Of Earth, The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table, No Earthly Connection, and White Rock.
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Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, producer, television and radio presenter, and author. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. He is a current member of Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.
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Given Rick Wakeman's fondness for the Big Subjects in his music, it's unsurprising that eventually he would turn to the Bible. 1996's The Word and Music, however, is unsatisfyingly literal in its interpretation of Biblical stories. Indeed, there's no interpretation at all: the nine pieces are simply recitations by Nina Wakeman, Rick's wife, of Old Testament parables, with musical backings that sound like Wakeman has fallen asleep at a bank of synthesizers set to "foreboding rumble." Nina Wakeman has a perfectly lovely reading voice, and the stories are, of course, one of the bedrocks of Western Civilization, but there is very little reason for this album to exist. The Word and Music should not be confused with In the Beginning, a very similar 1989 release that features a different set of Biblical settings.
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The new album sees Wakeman team up with The English Rock Ensemble/ARW/ELO bassist Lee Pomeroy, Trevor Horn/Producers drummer Ash Soan and guitarist Dave Colquhoun. The Red Planet will be released on LP and CD, with the first 1000 vinyl units pressed on 180g red double vinyl, which will be signed and numbered and presented in a ‘pop-up’ cover. The first 2000 CDs will also be autographed and numbered and feature their own ‘pop-up’ cover.
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After years of progressive rock, Wakeman shifted gears and produced this, his first solo piano album. Recorded on a Bosendorfer grand piano and sold as a new age album, it's a pleasant and soothing collection of original compositions engagingly melodic, subdued, and tasteful. (The recording is marred slightly by some low-end distortion, but it's a minor complaint.)
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Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, producer, television and radio presenter, and author. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. He is a current member of Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.