{"id":24676,"date":"2023-02-27T05:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24676"},"modified":"2023-01-25T08:39:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:39:47","slug":"interview-roundup-rick-wakeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/interview-roundup-rick-wakeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: Rick Wakeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Wakeman is known for many things. First and foremost, of course, he\u2019s renowned for his keyboard work for Yes (he joined and left the band no less than five times so far). He\u2019s notorious for his glittery cape and massive bank of keyboards. He\u2019s acknowledged for his prolific nature (he\u2019s released more than 100 albums). And he\u2019s also a celebrated raconteur of the highest order, with television and radio appearances that never fail to entertain.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve interviewed Wakeman a half-dozen times, and all rank among my favorite interviews of all time. He\u2019s a razor-sharp wit, and he\u2019s game to discuss most anything. I\u2019ve also had the honor of writing liner notes for some reissues of his A&amp;M-era album releases. Here\u2019s a quick rundown of our chats.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/15\/in-a-word-yes-rick-wakeman-on-the-arw-tour-part-1\/\">A 2016 interview discussing Yes offshoot ARW<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/19\/geeking-out-on-gear-rick-wakeman-talks-keyboards\/\">A 2016 interview delving into his instrumental gear<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/20\/rick-wakeman-on-solo-work-singers-and-sex-pistols\/\">An interview focusing on solo work, Sex Pistols(!) and more<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/08\/a-session-with-the-session-man-rick-wakeman-part-one\/\">Rick Wakeman talking about session work for Bowie and others<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/25\/rhapsodizing-with-rick-wakeman\/\">Wakemand discussing his 2019 songs-and-stories tour<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/10\/long-distance-runaround-rick-wakeman-is-a-true-one-man-show-part-one\/\">Rick Wakeman talking about his 2021 one-man show<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Wakeman is known for many things. First and foremost, of course, he\u2019s renowned for his keyboard work for Yes (he joined and left the band no less than five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1843],"class_list":["post-24676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-rick-wakeman","cat-41-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24678,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24676\/revisions\/24678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}