Word: wakemans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album's present rate of sales, Wakeman should easily gross enough to keep at least his wife from ever having to pull pints again...
...result is a bold piece of work-improvisatory, imaginative and thoroughly in keeping with the spirit of the toccatas of Bach that inspired it. In "Anne Boleyn," Wakeman starts out with the courtly use of an old English hymn, then progresses to a violently free-for-all jazz v. rock v. classics jamboree. In these and the other four movements, Wakeman writes in a manner that has the punch and power of rock combined with the taste and cohesion of traditional symphonic fare...
Both pop and the classics have been familiar to Wakeman since his childhood days in the London suburb of Perivale. His father Cyril was pianist in Ted Heath's big band, and little Richard at age 4½ was already taking piano lessons. At eight he was good enough to master a Clementi sonatina...
...Wakeman has blond hair to his waist and broad hands that easily span an octave and a third. He likes to wear hip-hugging jeans, suede moccasins and pop jerseys adorned by Mickey Mouse or slogans like: "I'm only here for the beer...
...much of his time, says Wakeman, is spent on tour. "When you're on a plane," he says, "there are two things you can do: drink yourself silly or read books." While he admits to doing his share of the former, it was inflight reading that paid off for Wakeman. On a flight from Richmond to Chicago last year, he read N. Brysson Morrison's The Private Life of Henry VIII and got the idea for Six Wives...