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When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
Ken Hensley / Keyboard Player
Cds
Numbers
Records
Song
Vinyl
Time Music More
Included
Limitations
Reasons
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The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.
Ken Hensley / Keyboard Player
Another Way
Careers
Priorities
Solo
Writing
Music Way More
Solo Career
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But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Chalk
Cheese
Cheesy
Compare
Doubt
No Doubt
Two
Recordings
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I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Imagination
Brain
Enjoy
Enjoy Life
Thinking
Life Work Good
Constantly
Due
Relaxing
Slept
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As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Bowie
Class
Cousin
Lennon
Stuff
Above
Writer
David
Favorite
Course
Great Writer
Influenced
Lyricist
Mccartney
Ways
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People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was the guy who found the Tubes and signed them to A&M. English punk was a revolution.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Punk
Revolution
Tubes
Signed
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Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were like chalk and cheese in many respects. I was unique in the band as a card-carrying Conservative.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Chalk
Cheese
Conservative
Touring
Great Fun
Many Respects
Respects
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I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Absolutely Nothing
Annoyed
Cities
Disgusting
Garden
Maple
Toronto
Absolutely
Good Me City
Annoys
Turning
Short
Good City Me
Gardens
Grocery
Grocery Store
Leaf
Store
The Only Thing
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I was in and out of Yes six times. Someone once likened it to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's marriage where we couldn't live with or without each other. There's an element of truth, and I last left in 2005.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Liz
Element
Taylor
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I didn't enjoy 'Topographic Oceans' at all. It was a double album, and the truth is it was padded out, and I didn't like that. But I was a fan of Yes - still am - and as such, I'm entitled to say what I think.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Entitled
Truth Is
Album
Fan
Double
Oceans
Padded
Yes
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I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.
Ken Hensley / Keyboard Player
Christian
Motivated
Opinion
Personal Opinions
Who I Am
First Of All
Satisfy
Secondly
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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. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Frustrated
Music Me End
Farther
Hardly
Oceans
Play Music
Tour
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I was 65 in May, and when I have just shaved, I see my father. I realise that I now have the same facial idiosyncrasies he had: little twitches here and there, mouth and nose movements, even the way he would tilt his head.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Facial
Idiosyncrasies
Tilt
Head
Mouth
Nose
Realise
Shaved
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It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
Ken Hensley / Keyboard Player
Daughter
Encouraging
Be Grateful
Grateful
Nice
Nice Things
People
God Work Always
God Work Me
People Say
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My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Travel
Adventure
Musical
Player
Session
Day Never Every Day
Earliest
Experiences
Day Every Day Never
Studio
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I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
Ken Hensley / Keyboard Player
Encouragement
God
Happy
Inspirational
Future
Each Day
Focused
Goal
Hands
Honor
Real
Very
Live
Why
Am
Only
Try
Here
Day
Each
Firmly
Fullest
Holds
Others
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I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!
Ken Hensley / Keyboard Player
Classical Music
Crazy
Musician
Play
Virtuoso
Writing
Classical
Developed
Mentioned
Unable
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I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn't have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Daughter
Edinburgh
Maternity
Memorial
Scotland
Accent
Brought
Fond
Me Born Always
Hospital
Hugely
Simpson
Tickled
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That's all I can do, is continue to plant the seeds; some will be trees, some will be plants, some will be bushes, some will bear fruits, some are for the season. My constant flow is to keep putting out quality and letting it get into the right hands.
Salaam Remi / Keyboard Player
Quality
Hands
Tree
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Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Animal
Cat
Golf
Norfolk
Phenomenal
Sick
Sparks
Tournaments
Money Me Care
Cats
Charities
Include
Puts
Raise
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There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Funny
Hilarious
Film
Night
Scene
Spinal Tap
Trapped
Actually
Alan
Bass Player
Tap
Simply
Giant
Spinal
Yes
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I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ, perhaps. I would have loved to record with John Lennon. He was a dear friend. I had lunch with him just two days before he died.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Dear Friend
Died
Lennon
Lovely
Lunch
Solo
Wonderful
Days
Loved
Friend
Early
Record
John
Mccartney
Organ
Paul
Paul Mccartney
Perhaps
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I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Bowie
Broken
Cat
Mars
Musician
Quiet
Records
Session
Artists
Played
David
Joined
Numerous
Trained
Though
Worked
Yes
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My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Faith
Concern
Long
Long Way
Play
Apart
Currently
Beliefs
Tremendous
Faiths
Important Part
Plays
Private
Throw
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I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!
Ken Hensley / Keyboard Player
Men
Guitar
Happy Man
If I Could
Normal
Sound
Thinking
David
Bluesy
Open
Chord
Course
Learned
Melodic
Slide
Supposed
Tune
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I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henrys old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Home
Book
Historical
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My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered she had breast cancer and passed away the next year. But if she'd had a check two years before, they could have done something about it, they could have saved her.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Breast Cancer
Cancer
Illness
Next Year
Saved
Life Mother Done
Life Done Day
Check
Passed
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I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Court
London
Subject Matter
Visiting
Period
Project
Hampton
Homes
Immersed
In Fact
Loads
Numerous
Subject
Tower
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I bought a racehorse, Tropical Saint, that belonged to the Queen Mother. I used to go down to Banbury and watch him train, but during a televised race, his jockey pulled up and said there was something wrong. They put him in the grass to try and settle him but found him dead in the field.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Grass
Mother
Race
Said
Tropical
Belonged
Bought
Dead
Watch
Wrong
Queen
Jockey
Pulled
Settle
Televised
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I had just left Yes and had done a concert at Crystal Palace, South London, with a choir and orchestra playing my solo album 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' when I had my heart attack. That day, I hadn't been to bed for four days. I don't remember much. I felt very numb during the day and airy, which is the best way to describe it.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Journey
Bed
Best Way
Centre
Choir
London
Numb
Orchestra
Solo
Album
Attack
Concert
Crystal
Describe
Palace
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Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Comedian
Grumpy
Host
Musician
Interviewer
Genuinely
Old Men
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I think everyone has a story to tell. Part of what I do is help artists find their voice, not only their vocal voice, but their writing voice. Every artist that I worked with who has those records that everyone talks about, they are also writers. I like to say I helped support whatever their writing was so people heard the song clearly.
Salaam Remi / Keyboard Player
Artist
Song
Writing
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In the future, I just think that as far as when it comes to me and my music, I'm trying to help be the catalyst for whatever is going to inspire more people and keep a great creative community going. Whatever I can do to make everyone's records better, not just my own, just hopefully keep the whole flow of stuff going in a good direction. That's what I'll be doing, so look forward to whatever I'm involved with it and hopefully I can inspire the next generation.
Salaam Remi / Keyboard Player
Creative
People
Thinking
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I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.
Rick Wakeman / Keyboard Player
Kids
Boys
Hurt
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