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Rick Wakeman announces new-look Xmas show run for November and December

Rick Wakeman's Christmas live shows return in November and December after a year off in 2023

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"Wakeman's genius-level playing and careful modernising have given the music legitimate new life": Rick Wakeman reinvents his past on Live At The Palladium 2023

Live At The Palladium 2023 is a four CD set that revisits Rick Wakeman's classic solo works and Yes

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“He didn’t think the concerts would work… the fluidity, precision and phrasing is simply dazzling”: Rick Wakeman’s Live At The London Palladium 2023

Performed over two nights, box set featuring The Six Wives Of Henry VIII, The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur, Yes Classics and Journey To The Centre Of The Earth is an essential package

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"That was real food for thought": Rick Wakeman on the surprise lesson he learned from a 16-year-old Brazilian fan

Rick Wakeman's Return Of The Caped Crusader dates resume this month, and the keyboard maestro knows it's not about nostalgia for everyone

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Steve Hackett's on the front cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now

Plus Family, Opeth, Trevor Horn, No-Man, The Orb & David Gilmour, Pallas, Caligula's Horse, Brian Auger and loads more...

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"David Bowie said, I hear you play a mean piano": Rick Wakeman on playing on Space Oddity and Hunky Dory, then turning down David Bowie's invitation to join The Spiders From Mars on the same day he joined Yes

Rick Wakeman was a popular and much in-demand musician in the early '70s, as his friend David Bowie would discover to his cost

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"I still think I’m part of Yes": Jon Anderson teases the possibility of a reunion with former Yes bandmates Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman

Jon Anderson suggests that the door may be open for playing again with some old friends

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“By the time I swapped over the tapes I knew I was in the stinky brown stuff. Somebody said, ‘God help us’ … the budget for the cover was cut back”: How Rick Wakeman proved everyone wrong with The Six Wives of Henry VIII

His 1973 debut solo album was roundly hated by label bosses and reviewers – but it became a coffee-table classic and gave him freedom from Yes

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“It’s time to call it a day”: Rick Wakeman announces farewell tour and a parting instrumental epic, Yessonata

Prog legend Rick Wakeman prepares to exit stage left

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“To play music, you have to understand it. I didn’t understand Topographic Oceans. That’s why I hardly played on it": Rick Wakeman and Yes - firings, hirings, curry, catastrophe and chaos

Best of 2023: When Vangelis nearly joined Yes and other tales from topographic oceans…

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“Stately swathes of melodic guitar, stomping-goblin work-song chants, Rick Wakeman-riding-a-plesiosaur keyboard soloing:” Moon Safari’s Himlabacken Vol 2 is an epic complement to its predecessor

The level of care and attention to detail explains why it took the Swedish symphonic prog outfit 10 years to deliver their exploration of growing up

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Prog's ultimate Christmas Tracks Of The Week

It's your chance to choose your favourite prog Christmas song in this week's seasonal poll

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“When I was about 14 a friend recommended Yes and ELP to me. To be completely honest I didn’t really like the music… I don’t think I’ve ever actually bought a prog album!” Derek Sherinian, keyboard warrior

He’s worked with Dream Theater, Sons of Apollo, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Lukather and many others – but Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson remain among his heroes

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Rick Wakeman, Trevor Horn, Focus and Big Big Train announced for 45th annual Cropredy Festival

Corpredy 2024 takes place in Cropredy, near Banbury, from August 8 -10

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Rick Wakeman announces Live At The London Palladium release

Rick Wakeman announces Live At The London Palladium four-disc set for February

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“As hard as it was, and it was hard, nobody wanted to bottle out. We just knew we had a big landscape we could explore”: How Tales From Topographic Oceans became the most arduous project in Yes’ history

Used as a byword for musical over-indulgence, 1973 album fought its creators every step of the way – right down to its master tapes nearly being crushed by a bus

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“I was completely petrified by Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights on TV. Anyone I was scared of I was interested by”: How Matt Berry discovered prog

Toast Of London star and self-taught musician became a fan of Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd and more

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I was pretty much ordered to go and play with Steve Howe, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes and John Wetton. I was told that if I didn’t, I’d be dropped”: Trevor Rabin’s challenging road to Yes

From a dalliance with NWOBHM and Asia to sudden career jumps across the ocean, he’s always been far more interesting and varied than many realise

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“We didn’t want to be extras, we didn’t want to be bit men… If you haven’t got an ego, you shouldn’t be doing this”: Rick Wakeman on the Keith Emerson collaboration that never happened

The “brothers in keyboards” had plans for a show together, a tour with Jon Lord and perhaps even an album before tragedy made it all impossible

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‘He’s a control freak’: 12 bandmates who hate each other, from Pink Floyd to Oasis

Sometimes a petty disagreement can become a lifelong grudge. Louis Chilton picks 11 of the most notorious feuds between musical collaborators

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“The world of music was going through some serious changes and we were not embracing them”: how Yes’s Going For The One and Tormato almost ended things for good

Punk rock, flying fruit and rollerskating accidents – how Yes went from triumph to disaster at the end of the 1970s

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Rick Wakeman teams up with Jah Wobble and Chester Thompson for new track Io

Wakeman, Wobble and Thompson all appear on new The Fusion Syndicate album out in September

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“To play music, you have to understand it. I didn’t understand Topographic Oceans. That’s why I hardly played on it": Rick Wakeman and Yes - firings, hirings, curry, catastrophe and chaos

When Vangelis nearly joined Yes and other tales from topographic oceans…

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"David Bowie said, 'That was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard.’” Magna Carta and friends in high places

Chris Simpson of 70s folky proggers Magna Carta recalls 50 years of making music. “I look back and think: how did it all happen?” he says...

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Bill Bruford surprises fans with live performance at John Wetton Tribute show

Bruford appeared alongside Roger Chapman, Rick Wakeman, Annie Haslam, Steve Hackett and more

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