Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday
OUTRAGEOUS stage threads used to be a common feature of a musician’s persona: think Elvis, Bowie, Grace Jones, Elton John, KISS, Rick Wakeman - and so on. Take out today’s pop divas, though, and there are few people who go to the effort of dolling themselves up like it’s 1975.
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather good BBC Four documentary about British progressive rock on Vimeo. Watch or grab it before it's gone. Aside from the groups most everyone knows (or maybe dreads by reputation) - Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Genesis, ELP - other lesser-known bands get much more than a nod as well, including two of my favorites, Soft Machine and egg (bonus music geek points for...
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Imagine taking a pinch of Jethro Tull, a handful of Yes with a seasoned Rick Wakeman and more than a fistful of early Deep Purple. Mix carefully with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Pink Floyd and Bowie and season with Renaissance. Dream on you say. No such fusion ever existed. So I thought too till I accidentally picked up an album called Doomsday Afternoon. How come I had suddenly stumbled on such great...
The Northern England Art Rock Society (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
According to the VOICEPRINT November news email Rick Wakeman has a triple CD in the offing. Rick Wakeman is putting the final touches to a fantastic triple CD entitled Past, Present Future. As the title implies the album focuses on time and the themes running through it come under each of the three headings Past Present and Future. The album is a solo piano work from Rick and comes in a sleeve designed...
Only Just Offside... (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
First published in The Grecian , 31 October 2008, Exeter City -v- Brentford Exeter City and Brentford both come to this afternoon’s match needing a good result to help take them out of the lower reaches of the League One table. If last season’s encounters are anything to go by, supporters of the two sides can expect a competitive and absorbing game. While the Grecians were securing a last...
33 1/3 (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
We're very pleased to announce that Geeta Dayal's long-awaited book for the series about Brian Eno's Another Green World album is finally on sale and fully distributed throughout North America. As Geeta herself would be the first to admit, it wasn't the easiest book to write - but the results are well worth it. Here's an extract from Chapter 5, "Abandon Normal Instruments." *** Eno's insistence...
Falmouth Packet | News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Musical legend Rick Wakeman is to be guest speaker at a charity art auction raising money for Penryn-based autism and Asperger's charity Spectrum.
the central shaft (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
THIS IS NOT A ALBUM FROM THE DEVIL!! Aphrodite's Child was a Greek rock band formed in 1967, by Vangelis Papathanassiou (keyboards); Demis Roussos (bass guitar and vocals), Loukas Sideras (drums and vocals), and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris (guitar). This band and especialy this album made vangelis be know by his skills at the keyboard,and he had been invited by Jon Anderson from Yes to replace...
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Prog rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman performs his first solo album in its entirety at Hampton Court... 36 years late. Was it worth the wait?
Isaac Ashe's Sound Advice (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
○○○●● JUST Songs ? well durrr! The female voice of Strictly Come Dancing, Hayley Sanderson , releases her album of cover versions next week. However the razzmatazz is pared back here, with a less-is-more approach - most of the time it's just Hayley's voice, keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman on pianos and guitarist Mitch Dalton. There's not a paso doble or American slow in sight...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The Six Wives of Henry The VIII are alive and well at Hampton Court Palace.
jerrywynn2009 | 10/16/2009
Yes Live at Montreux 2003 >>>> Download Live at Montreux 2003 <<<< artist: Yes album: Live at Montreux 2003 Tracklist: 1 Siberian Khatru mp3 2 Magnification mp3 3 Don't Kill the Whale mp3 4 In the Presence of mp3 5 We Have Heaven mp3 6 South Side of the Sky mp3 7 And You and I mp3 8 To Be Over mp3 9 Clap mp3 10 Show Me mp3 11 Rick Wakeman Solo Medley mp3 12 Heart of the Sunrise
RWCC News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Celebrity keyboard sensation Rick Wakeman, who has played with the likes of David Bowie and Elton John, is taking part in a sponsored diet. The money raised by the overweight rocker will go to the Salvation Army in his home county of Norfolk. "I'm a big admirer of their work - they do such good and it seemed a great opportunity to give something back," said Rick. At last check, Rick weighed...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Life On Mars? was originally released on David Bowie’s 1971 album Hunky Dory . Life On Mars? would be released as a single in the U.S. two years later with The Man Who Sold The World as its B-Side. Talk about a killer combo. The Contestants: The Bad Plus : In addition to this adventurous take on a Bowie classic, this Bad Plus album from 2007 also features interpretations of Everybody Wants To...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
"Rick Wakeman of the band "Yes" invented and developed this instrument along with help from David Biro. Wakeman formed the company Birotronics, Ltd. which made just 35 Birotrons. Like the Mellotron, the Birotron "sampled" instruments and uses 8-track tapes for the various sounds. This was necessary before digital sampling became available. They were mainly used for strings,...
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jerrywynn2009 | 10/16/2009
Yes Live at Montreux 2003 >>>> Download Live at Montreux 2003 <<<< artist: Yes album: Live at Montreux 2003 Tracklist: 1 Siberian Khatru mp3 2 Magnification mp3 3 Don't Kill the Whale mp3 4 In the Presence of mp3 5 We Have Heaven mp3 6 South Side of the Sky mp3 7 And You and I mp3 8 To Be Over mp3 9 Clap mp3 10 Show Me mp3 11 Rick Wakeman Solo Medley mp3 12 Heart of the Sunrise mp3 13 Long Distance...
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