Word: wakemans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rick Wakeman mastered classical music at the Royal College of Music and rock as a keyboard sideman for such pop luminaries as Cat Stevens, T. Rex and David Bowie. Currently a member of Yes, England's foremost progressive rock group, Wakeman, 24, has conceived, performed and produced what is so far the most provocative rock LP of the year. The Six Wives of Henry VIIKA...
...album does not contain literal portraits of Henry's women; rather it is a six-movement instrumental suite conveying Wakeman's musical impressions of the ladies. Devoid of lyrics, it is bursting with diverse sounds: Mellotrons.* Moog synthesizers, electric pianos, conventional concert grand, harpsichord, even the 240-year-old pipe organ at St. Giles Cripplegate church...
...Wakeman has liberally drawn on classical style and its techniques in much the same way the Rolling Stones do on blues or The Band on country...
...Jane Seymour" movement, Wakeman first recorded an original 4¾ minute toccata on the St. Giles organ; then, back in the studio, he dubbed it over with drums, bass and synthesizer...
Precol Harum. Apparently "Whiter Shade of Pale" was one of the first rock and roll songs to lift knowingly from the classics, Bach (they tell me) in this case. Which led to the rock-classical fusions of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. Meanwhile PH's Keith Reid wrote lyrics that predated, and occasionally surpassed the obscure inanities of King Crimson and Yes. And Procol Harum plays on, the grandaddy of the progressives...