Rick Wakeman Old Grey Whistle Test 24th October 1972

[@harleyguzz4301]

A truly amazing musician, life is better with people like this , I wonder sometimes if they ever think how they shaped and affected the lives of people that grew up with their music .Thank you

[@friotaiocht101]

Incredible Rick Wakeman was just 23 years old here....

[@lorrainebennett7528]

Rick seemed quite shy then, now he's totally hilarious and a national treasure 😊

[@exv092]

40 plus years later and he's still a kick ass keyboard player!! Dig it!

[@MsLoverockmusic]

Wow! Early Rick Wakeman interview! Really enjoyed watching all these Bob Harris interviews with YES members from the 70s! What a gem! Thanks for posting!

[@christopherheinig5590]

Fantastic and how articulate this GENIUS is such a gifted gift !!! Thank you !!!

[@estebanposadaduque6415]

.... my goodness I grew up listening this genius´albums .... he was such a young gifted/talented artist & unique in style & looks....I loved him so much ....

[@gregm6652]

Quite the time capsule, this was recorded BEFORE Yes recorded their shows at the Rainbow in London, which were the basis for the Yessongs album released in 1973.

[@TheDivayenta]

Watch his interview with Rick Beato!

[@raywoods2132]

Brilliant Interview as well with Rick Beato!

[@Millennial_Mike]

Young rick is so damn cool.

[@talibe801]

Amazing to see this interviews with such great musicians.

[@justinneill5003]

Fascinating how characters evolve over time. Here he is in his early twenties, just starting out, all hesitant and introspective; now watch his acceptance speech as Yes were inducted into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame 45 years later (how did I take that long!?!)

[@theresa42213]

Wakey looks like he's about _eighteen_ here! l'm glad he talked about the musicians he used on the album! l always wondered about all the peeps involved in that AMAZING venture!

[@davemilnes1147]

"I got a different feeling from each of the wives..."

[@Silenceeify]

Lol

[@dennisloniak8774]

Excellent interview and tremendous insight into Rick’s mind. Too short.

[@stevedotwood]

I bought that album when it was released on a week in London, along with a pair of hippie sandals. Always loved it (the album that is)

[@dianewood4799]

That was a terrific interview... Thank you

[@yes_head]

Rick talks about the upcoming Rainbow gig that ended up as the Yessongs film and parts of the triple live album.

[@tshkrel]

Rick now looks like Bob did back then

[@SluffAdlin]

but with better teeth

[@lewisgreen1633]

And Bob now resembles an aged Ginger Baker..

[@TruthSurge]

5:23 his hands are huge! such an advantage when playing keyboards.

[@derekbeauchamp2409]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing !

[@JimmerJamesKM]

Nice little history lesson! Cool to see!!

[@drea4195]

This is a great example of videotape recordings changing/fading colors: Rick's eyes are actually blue, but if you didn't know that and watched this, you'd swear they were brown.

[@iankp5901]

In those days they were probably red lol

[@stephenmorton2890]

You weren't entirely sober at this interview were you Mr Wakeman? Still, a great post which chokes me with nostalgia. Thank you for posting.

[@pauljohnson5160]

In 1972 !

[@Mozart1220]

There is a story about this..."Rat assed" was his description. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6Cue4RvgZ16Y8k

[@nectarinedreams7208]

He openly states at the start that he'd been drinking

[@timin770]

Who WASN'T high in 1972? It would be a shorter list

[@HeidiLandRover]

"That's pony - throw it away!" :-D

[@mariovuksanovic5077]

Wow, he was talking about the gigs at the Rainbow that were going to be filmed...which became the Yessongs movie. By far the coolest , friendliest, funniest and most interesting member of the 1970s Yes line up.in my opinion....did I mention funniest?

[@kiely4561]

Blimey was Rick ever that young, I’m too young to remember lol

[@Tarkus_H]

Rick's book made this interview sound a whole lot worse than it is. Then again, he did say they did some edits.

[@ceecoursian]

That’s what brought me here . It not as bad as he said it was in the book

[@Murfie-qe3pp]

Jane Seymour is my favourite on the album

[@scottsent8120]

Is this the guy who created and played that amazing piano part on Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken recording?

[@bud849]

Yes

[@TONE11111]

also wrote space oddity and life on mars for bowie

[@linneasaoirse]

Beautiful

[@rjlchristie]

@ 3:07 Henry VIII was in the renaissance era not in the baroque, Rick.

[@krisscanlon4051]

Speak up Bob! Cheese and rice! Rick but a lad perhaps even a likely lad or Jack the Lad! Well my lad runneth over! Funny then and now😂

[@sharonlee4773]

SPEAK UP MAN!

[@johnvalencia9927]

two months later yessongs was filmed...why didn't they bring Old Gray Whistle tests' cameras? It would have looked 100 times better

[@AmericasChoice]

Good old England..........

[@markstoneman1585]

Keyboard king 🎹

[@edljnehan2811]

I think you made a mistake this is Rick Wakeman being interviewed not Keith Emerson

[@kimberleyelephant]

I just watched the RWT spoof of OGWT before this. Not much difference.

[@petrosros]

I actually bought the album back in the day, according to wicki it was released in 73. I was 19, already getting fed up with progs conceits, the album was fucking terrible, though I played it a lot and tried to act sophisticated. Listening to these two now, it's a bit like Derek and Clive, I keep waiting for one of them to use the C word.

[@AmericasChoice]

I was forced to listen to that album at the end of a long party when all I wanted to do was crash...horrible.

[@petrosros]

@@AmericasChoice On the plus side, he applied for Bankruptcy shortly after, being guilty of pissing away a small fortune on baubles and booze. At the time, a friend told me they had seen him playing in a small pub in North London. The Punk movement were right about prog rock super bands, I never jumped on that bandwagon, but I appreciated what they said. How the mighty fall.

[@AmericasChoice]

@@petrosros I liked some of it, a lot. But some of it was pretentious twaddle. Not a fan of Punk, but liked some of the Post Punk - Television, The Dogs, Comsat Angels, The Sound, early Cure, The Church etc

[@AmericasChoice]

@@petrosros He has issues with ex wives...

[@petrosros]

@@AmericasChoice And old age, like me. Funny, he lived in the same part of North London that I grew up in, and still live. I saw him play live with Yes once, I think they epitomized prog rock's dilemma, it was a fact that post punk they could not play in the UK. I actually bought Tales of Topographic Oceans, what a waste of money, a triple album and the longest drum solo in prog rock history (Alan White, died recently).