Rick Wakeman – Return to the Red Planet
Rick Wakeman released “Return to the Red Planet” on 16 October through Madfish: nine tracks about Mars, recorded with the English Rock Ensemble playing together in the studio.
Rick Wakeman
Rick Wakeman
Rick Wakeman is a British keyboardist who was a member of Yes during the 1970s and who has released solo albums including The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973) and Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1974).
Rick Wakeman plays Starmus in the Canary Islands with a piano and orchestra piece based on Hawking’s lectures
The science and music festival founded by Brian May and Garik Israelian runs in Tenerife and La Palma from 17 to 22 October. Wakeman performs with Moldovan violinist Rusanda Panfili.
The studio tracks from both “Keys to Ascension” albums reach vinyl for the first time on 29 January 2027
Spirit of Unicorn and Cherry Red gather the seven studio cuts from the 1996 and 1997 albums on double vinyl and CD, with new Roger Dean and Mike Inns artwork.
Yes reschedule the «Fragile» tour Steve Howe’s surgery halted to May 2027
Nine new UK dates from 2 to 16 May, with old tickets still valid. Howe, three months after the operation: “I’m making progress, slowly.”
Rick Wakeman dedicates a track to Bowie on his new record, fifty years after playing piano on «Life on Mars?»
«Bowie’s Vision», from Wakeman’s «Return to the Red Planet», pays tribute to the man whose «Life on Mars?» he once played piano on.
New Releases: November
Twenty-six November releases in brief: Opeth, Klaus Schulze, Rick Wakeman, Vola and more.