Rick Wakeman News

Thu, Jun 25, 2009 PUBLICITY PHOTO Oliver Wakeman of Yes If You Go What: Prog-rockers Yes and Asia When: 7 p.m. Saturday Where: Thomas & Mack Center, UNLV campus Tickets: $25; 739-3267, unlvtickets.com When the progressive rock band Yes comes to the Thomas & Mack Center on Saturday, three members of the classic lineup - guitarist Steve Howe, bass ...

At long last, Rick Wakeman is to play his progtastic The Six Wives of Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace John Bungey There is a story that Rick Wakeman, the former titan of progressive rock, likes to tell about the fans he has acquired since he became a jobbing TV wit.

No, not the Ken Russell film. Although we do love you Ken. Or indeed the Rick Wakeman track.

It was one of the most lavish concept albums of the 1970s - a prog-rock tribute to the lives, loves and loathings of one of Britain's most audacious monarchs.

Progressive rock supergroups Yes and Asia are teaming up to tour North America this summer.

The bloody marital history of Henry VIII was long ago captured by the popular riff "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived", but in 1972 the rock star Rick Wakeman offered a more complex musical ...

A whole lot of things are younger than Yes, a band formed in England in 1968: cell phones, CDs, the Internet, the original Woodstock music festival.

Rick Wakeman will revive his classic `Six Wives Of Henry VIII` in concert next May.

He's been in the band for more than 30 years, but even Alan White, drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes, was the new guy at one point.

After postponing plans for a 40th anniversary "Close to the Edge and Back" tour in June , groundbreaking progressive rock group Yes is back on the touring circuit, sans Anderson.