Rick Wakeman

Person · Open Library

Born

1949-05-18

Works

7

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Film & TV

Acting · Perivale, London, England

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for his solo albums, contributing to the BBC comedy series Grumpy Old Men and for Rick's Place, his former radio show on Planet Rock that aired until December…

Known for

• Rick Wakeman: The Return of the Caped Crusader Part 2 — Self2025
• David Bowie: London Boy — Self2021
• Rick Wakeman - Live Portraits2019
• David Bowie: Finding Fame — Self2019
• Yes - Live at the Apollo — Keyboards2018
• BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia2018
• Beside Bowie - The Mick Ronson Story — Self2017
• When Pop Went Epic: The Crazy World of the Concept Album — Self - Presenter2016
• Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road — Self - Presenter2015
• Rick Wakeman on Vivaldi's Four Seasons2015

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1949-05-18

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

229,372

Total plays

3,208,056

Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949 in Perivale, London) is an English keyboard player best known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use of electronic keyboards and in the use of a rock band in combination with orchestra and choir. He purchased his first electronic keyboard, a Minimoog, from the actor Jack Wild. Wakeman was able to buy it for half the regular selling price because Wild thought it did not

via Last.fm · Rick Wakeman

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions

   · 1992 · cited 14,747x

2. The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

   · 2008 · cited 10,607x

3. Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

   · 2021 · cited 9,748x

4. De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

   · 2013 · cited 7,752x

5. Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain

   · 2006 · cited 5,196x

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Key dates

Born

18 May 1949

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Richard

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Perivale

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

Christian music

Instrument

harpsichord

Record label

EMI