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...First Piano Concerto and even Sir Charles Parry's great old Anglican choral song Jerusalem. Also rising on the charts is an LP by a Dutch group called Focus that sounds at times like a combo of English madrigalists. In Detroit this week, English Rock Star Rick Wakeman begins a month-long U.S. tour featuring some unusual sidemen: Classical Conductor David Measham and a 60-member orchestra and choir...
...this really be rock, the average Rolling Stones freak may well ask? What it is has already been called a lot of things-classical rock, smart rock, rockaphonic, even garbage rock-but one thing is certain: the complex, educated sounds emanating from ELP, Focus, Wakeman and their like constitute a daring, exciting and hugely successful new kind of rock...
...measure its success: England's The Moody Blues, pioneers in the field, have sold more than 10 million records over the past six years; ELP and Yes, the most progressive of all such groups, each has between 8 and 10 million sales to its credit; the album of Wakeman's dramatic cantata Journey to the Centre of the Earth became a million-dollar seller in only six weeks...
...WIVES OF HENRY VIII (A & M). Using everything from synthesizers to pipe organs, England's Rick Wakeman has produced a provocative rock LP (not a score from the movie or TV series of the same name...
...Electronic keyboard instruments whose basic source of sound is cartridge tapes; Wakeman uses one for vocal sound effects, a second for brass, strings and flutes...