Wednesday, 28 November 2012

RICK WAKEMAN IN THE DAILY EXPRESS

This brief bit of gossip in the Daily Express tells us nothing that we didn't already already know about Rick's reimagining of Journey to the Centre of the Earth but contains the best conjunctivitis joke EVER!!!!!!!

RICK WAKEMAN RETURNS TO CENTRE OF THE EARTH

Rick Wakeman is struggling to keep up with the fast pace in technological change

Friday November 23,2012

By Lizzie Catt, Lisa Higgins and Jack Teague

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AFTER rediscovering the long-lostmusical

score for his concept album Journey To The Centre Of The Earth in a waterlogged box, Rick Wakeman has re-recorded it.

But in the 30 years since he last saw the score the keyboard wizard has failed to keep up with the times.

“My son asked me if I had an iPad,” he told us. “Yeah, only when I’ve got conjunctivitis.”

Rick, 63, whose re-recording of Journey has been released this week as a special fan pack with Classic Rock magazine, explains: “Playing lots of keyboards at the same time is what I was brought up with.

“My kids range from 27 up to 40-odd. Put a new iPad in front of them and they don’t even need to look at the instructions. Put me in front of a pinball machine and I can knock spots off 'em – they don’t get it!”

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