Rick Wakeman
Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher "Rick" Wakemanis an English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio presenter, author, and actor. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth18 May 1949
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I cut out bread, I don't eat after 6 P.M., and I go on walks, and it's had a great effect.
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I'm a Freemason, and we love to celebrate Burns' night: piping in the haggis, the whole lot.
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And the kids are going through their parents' record collections -- I say kids, but really it's everything from the age of 12 up to 20s -- and a lot of them are coming along, and they don't have the ageism thing that a lot of the press do.
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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.
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I'm not saying I went on stage drunk, but once you've gone completely clear headed, basically the music is your stimulant rather than anything else.
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Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.
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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.
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I have done quite a diverse amount of music, and some were not always of my choosing - although I always give it my best professional attention.
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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.
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If he had been British he would have been knighted for sure and been Sir Bob.
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There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.
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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.
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I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
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There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight.