Thursday, 22 November 2012

LINK: Rick Wakeman on re-recording of seminal prog album


BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt speaks to Rick Wakeman about the release of his re-recorded 1974 prog masterpiece, Journey to the Centre of the Earth. 

The album, based on a Jules Verne novel, was one of the biggest albums of the 1970s. 

The re-recorded version includes 20 minutes of new material cut from the original, as well as music unearthed from the original score that had long been thought lost.

NOTE: The BBC being the BBC, however, we can't embed the sound file, so you will, I am afraid, just have to follow this link.

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