The influence of Holst on prog rock – archive, 1973
10 February 1973: Rick Wakeman’s album The Six Wives of Henry VIII expresses all the merits and limitations of a new musical genre
April 2017
David Hepworth on radio
This week’s best radio: Peter Curran sifts through more Litter From America
Activist and comedian Maysoon Zayid is the presenter’s latest US envoy, while The Listening Project documents life in a post-letter world
January 2017
A brush with greatness
The day I played the Mellotron for David Bowie
It’s 1969, a young Rick Wakeman has mastered the weird electonic keyboard, and a rising star wants him to play on a track called Space Oddity
July 2014
What I see in the mirror
What I see in the mirror: Rick Wakeman
'On a really bad day I can count numerous chins'
April 2014
Rick Wakeman review – swept up by sheer, ludicrous ambition
The keyboard wizard's concert performance of Journey to the Centre of the Earth packs in a band, orchestra, singers – and tales of prog-rock past, writes Dave Simpson
February 2014
10 of the best
10 of the best: Yes
Tim Hall: The prog-rock titans come under the microscope, from the multi-part epics to the 80s AOR and back again
January 2014
30 minutes with …
Rick Wakeman: 'Punk was a revolution ... things had to change'
With his cape and his keyboards, Rick Wakeman is probably the most prog man to have ever noodled. Yet this self-proclaimed 'Sergio Agüero of the keyboard' tells Paul Lester he gets why punk had to happen
April 2012
Open thread
Ryan Gosling or Rick Wakeman? Tell us your lame claim to fame
Ever had a boring brush with a star? Or an exciting encounter with a Z-lister? Let us know – the more banal the better
July 2010
Go back to go forward: the resurgence of prog rock
After its 1970s heyday, prog rock receded in on itself, but now a new wave of bands are embracing long, difficult songs and fantastical lyrics – and finding fans for it, too, writes Alexis Petridis
May 2008
Flashback
Flashback
30 may 1975: How do you stage Myths and Legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table? On ice! Rick Wakeman recalls his greatest prog extravaganza
February 2007
Rick Wakeman company joins battle to buy TVR motors
A small Rochdale sports carmaker, which lists the rock legend Rick Wakeman among its directors, has lined up a bid for Blackpool Automotive, the former TVR Manufacturing, which went into administration late last year.
October 2004
No 2,524
Rick Wakeman
December 2003
Naughty but nice
Rick Wakeman enjoys Pictures of an Exhibitionist, Keith Emerson's honest account of his life in rock'n'roll
