WAKEMAN PLAYS TO THE GALLERY!

Prog rock, piano pieces, and some end-of-the-pier fun are all in the picture on Rick’s new album, A Gallery Of The Imagination.

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Rick Wakeman’s latest studio album, A Gallery Of The Imagination, will be officially released by Madfish on February 24, but when Prog caught up with him three shows into his recent one-man Grumpy Christmas Stocking tour, copies were already available to fans at his merch stand. “We just pressed up about 1,000 CDs for the tour,” the keyboard player says, “and they’re nearly all gone! I’ve been playing the two piano pieces from it [The Creek and Just A Memory] at the shows and they both work nicely, they’ve been getting a really good response.” Those two piano instrumentals are just part of the 12-track album’s broad, emotionally evocative palette. After his classic-progressive 2020 LP The Red Planet, Wakeman found himself with a pile of songs he’d written that bore…

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