rick wakeman Archive
24 Mar 2023
Album Review: Rick Wakeman — A Gallery of the Imagination
Rick Wakeman is staggeringly prolific. I defy anyone to absorb his entire body of work; hell, even coming up with an accurate count on the number of album’s he’s released […]
27 Feb 2023
Interview Roundup: Rick Wakeman
Rick Wakeman is known for many things. First and foremost, of course, he’s renowned for his keyboard work for Yes (he joined and left the band no less than five […]
11 Nov 2021
Long Distance Runaround: Rick Wakeman is a True One-man Show (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… While he’d sometimes explain that there was a good reason for not playing a given tune, other times, he’d take the suggestions under consideration. “I do […]
10 Nov 2021
Long Distance Runaround: Rick Wakeman is a True One-man Show (Part One)
Note: The following first appeared as a feature in New City, previewing a concert scheduled for November 2021. That show has since been postponed to 2021. Because I had already […]
10 Jan 2021
Hundred-word Reviews: January 2021 #1
Welcome to 2021. Let’s hope it’s better for the world’s citizens than 2020 was. Some things, at least, never change. And one of those is my commitment to covering music […]
27 Dec 2019
Musoscribe’s Best of 2019: Interviews
I lost count of how many interviews I conducted in 2019. I think the number is right around 175. I enjoyed ever single one of them, but as is typical, […]
25 Oct 2019
Rhapsodizing with Rick Wakeman
Legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman is perhaps best known for his work with Yes, a group he has joined and quit at least five times since the early ’90s. But the […]
09 Oct 2019
A Session with the Session Man: Rick Wakeman (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Of all the sessions you’ve played on, is there one that really stands out as a particularly disastrous or unpleasant? No. I’ve never had any unpleasant […]
08 Oct 2019
A Session with the Session Man: Rick Wakeman (Part One)
Mention the name Rick Wakeman to a fan of ’70s rock and they’ll immediately think of Yes, the band he has joined and quit more than five times. Dig further […]
29 Dec 2016
Best Music of 2016: Concerts
There’s a bit of overlap where my best albums and best concerts of 2016 are concerned. And there are some old favorites, too. John Mayall Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte NC March […]
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