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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S1E62: Rick Wakeman

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs we sit down and chat with Rick Wakeman. He embodies everything this show is all about, great stories from great artists about great songs! We love him and barely scratch the surface on his incredible career from Bowie to Yes, T-Rex to Knights on Ice…hee has sold 50 million albums across 5 decades in music. Rick is a one off and never fails to entertain. Go catch his ‘Not Quite as Grumpy as Last Xmas’ tour this November and Dec.


Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions



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0:32.0

Hello Guy. Hello Gary. It's the Rick on Tours isn't it really? Oh very good. I mean I think this if

0:40.0

if our show was ever designed for anyone, it was probably Rick Waikman.

0:44.0

Well, it isn't it isn't in that we're not really needed here.

0:48.0

A very famous raconteur as he is, you know, on his on tour I think, just about to go on tour.

0:56.7

About to go on tour, yeah.

0:57.8

Doing his, he's, I think it's the not quite as grumpy as last year tour where he talks

1:04.9

through songs and he plays them and tells stories and gags and hopefully he can

1:08.4

tell a few of those here today. Yeah exactly well hopefully as per usual or you know one will get a few that you don't hear from him.

1:17.6

You know what I was thinking about the period when we all sort of discovered Rick Wakeman, well people of our age as it were, and how

1:27.4

different times are today to then.

1:30.5

I mean obviously they're, you know, guitar heroes, we had those. But there were keyboard

1:35.2

heroes in those days. I mean, people, you'd play air keyboards, wouldn't you, but you won't play it like Mrs

1:40.2

Mills with your hands in front of you. you'd play it as though you had...

1:43.6

That's right, left and right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, like wings.

1:47.4

That's right.

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