Quartz Arts Fest REVIEW: A Very Intimate Evening with Rick Wakeman
IN 1971, Rick Wakeman got a call from David Bowie, who wanted to play him some new songs on a battered 12- string guitar and told him to come to his Kent “Palace”.
“One after one, he played these magnificent songs,” Rick recalled, instructed to “make notes”.
Review done and dusted, Bowie turned to the keyboards king and said: “Now I want you to play them. I want them to all be piano solos”.
Life On Mars and Changes were among the “magnificent” tracks that, together, Wakeman and Bowie arranged.
The new album? Hunky Dory.
So, spine-tingling, over 40 years later, for a Taunton auditorium to hear Rick Wakeman play Life On Mars once again; one of many such moments that left the Quartz Festival audience stunned on its final night.
A genius whose talent can’t be overstated, the ‘Very Intimate Evening’ with the Caped Crusader was just that.
Sheetless piano solos played on a grand, and jaw-dropping anecdotes, moving and hysterical.
Where did the man who was keyboardist for prog-rockers Yes, fathered the concept album, arranged Cat Stevens’ smash-hit Morning Has Broken, sold millions of copies of over 100 different records, and wrote a rock opera, start?
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO
 | Live At The Maltings DVD/CD - £9.99 |
 | Caped Crusader- Rick Wakeman in the 1970's Book - £14.99 |
 | Video Vaults 6DVD box - £85.00 |
 | The Burning CD - £9.99 |
 | Cirque Surreal CD - £7.99 |
 | Gole CD - £9.99 |
 | Cost Of Living CD - £9.99 |
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