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30 York Daily Record, Tuesday, July 17, 1973 Records Wakeman's 'Six Wives Of Henry VIII' A Hit By MARY CAMPBELL AV -J If I fame in words is that I used to work in a pub and used to recite slightly suspect poetry on stage there, pub poetry. I can't write songs. There's an art to writing music and there's a different art to writing songs that I haven't got." Wakeman took piano lessons and later studied for a year and a half at the Royal College of Music. His favorite pianist is Vladimir Ashkenazy. "It is people like Ashkenazy who make me realize how much I couldn't have been a concert pianist, which I wanted to be when I was in college.

I think he is amazing. "It's a totally different world from the rock world. But it makes me realize how much you have to be dedicated to whatever you are doing to make it successful. If not, it is going to be a disaster." to know who to work for until you come to a time where you think you have efficiently sorted yourself out to do something on your own." One group Wakeman played for was David Bowie's, on "Space Oddity" and "Hunky Dory." "Bowie asked me to go to America with the group in January 1972. I'd already left the Strawbs and joined Yes.

I asked the manager and told him I'd like to go. He said that Yes would be working then and that was it, really. That tour of Bowie's fell through. Showmanship Is Wrong "He didn't exactly ask me to join his band. They didn't get the name the Spiders from Mars until the 'Ziggy Stardust' album and they started doing fantastically outrageous things.

He is a king at getting publicity. He's a very intelligent person, very clever. "Personally I don't like showmanship. I don't say that people who do it are wrong. I think it detracts from the music.

You can succeed with the music." Wakeman has started another solo album. "I'm working on the concept of Jules Verne's 'Journey to the Center of the I'm writing the music now. It should be done in January or February. Took Piano Lessons "It'll have no words again. I can't write words.

My only claim to Atlantic: "Yes," "Time and a Word," "The Yes Album," "Fragile." "Close to the Edge" and "Yessongs." The latter is a triple, live album and is No. 9 on the June 23 best -selling chart and climbing. "It was meant to come out Feb. 15 before the tour started but the cover took too long to print. That happened to us once before.

The first successful album we had was It was meant to come out in October for our November 1971 tour. It came out the second week of the following January." The musician, hose hair is long, blond and straight, says, "I don't sing with Yes. I just play keyboards all the time. I don't think record sales would be quite as high for us as they are now if I sang. I enjoy singing.

Everyone does. I can sing in church. I'm all right if there are a lot of other people singing. Session Work 'Valuable' "I think singing has a lot to do with confidence. If you're a lead singer in a band you're always a focal point." Wakeman talks about confidence again when asked, about session work.

Instead of putting it down, he says, "It's valuable. You play with so many different people and get insights into different sorts of music; it has got to help. I used to average 20 sessions a week film scores, advertising jingles, pop, jazz, classical. Some are a drag and some are really bad. You get fimw ri 1 nil i m- Mi i-mtV' TODAY Tyler Inn AP Newsfeatures Writer Rick Wakeman has emerged from the anonymity of being a session musician in London to membership in two important groups and on to making his own album, which challenges Keith Emerson's supremacy of keyboard electronics.

Wakeman's album, on A and is "The Six Wives of Henry VIII," No. 24 on the best-selling chart of June 23 and climbing. It is an instrumental album, for which Wakeman wrote six pieces of music based on his ideas of the characters of the six wives. Some of it combines rock with classical music. He overdubbed, using, he says, "Two mellotrons, three synthesizers, two electric pianos and an organ.

That's a portative organ, I want to add, from the late 1700s. It's a keyboard reed instrument; it's rare. The pipes are wooden and have reeds in them. It sounds like a breathy, soft-type organ, like you can hear somebody breathing. 'Yes Has More Music "I've got loads and loads of books on keyboard instruments.

There are so many. I'd love to have a big room full of any and every keyboard instrument, harpsichords and spinets and so on." Wakeman also is a member of Yes, which recently completed a tour in the United States. "To me Yes has got more music than any other band in existence." Then the musician, who was born 23 years ago in Perivale, Middlesex, outside London, adds diffidently, "I'm sure a lot of musicians feel that way about the band they're in. "But Yes has everything I want from a band. It's the first band I've really come across that never worried about spending money to improve the music or minded going to a country like Japan where the band hadn't broken into being a hit yet.

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Ph. 845-7214 RICK WAKEMAN America and play there and try to get as much money out of it as possible. 'Best Of Both Worlds' "America is useful. We pay 33 per cent tax on everything we earn here and then we use half of the rest of the money to finance us to go places like Japan and Australia. We want to play music to as many people as possible.

"I went to a zoo in Australia and I went to Disneyland on behalf of my son, Oliver, who is 16 months old and wasn't along. "I've got the best of both worlds. I've got the music I love with the band and the music I love doing myself. Nothing is interfering with each other. If I'm lucky enough to have two things I enjoy, I'm not going to throw one away.

I don't think a situation would ever arise where I couldn't fit the two in." Then in a musing tone he says, "In 15 or 16 years I could be a grandfather. I wonder if I'll still be on tour." First Successful Album Yes has had six albums, on CLAM NIGHT AT THE PADDOCK! 3406 E. Market St. Dozen 85c CIRCUS SAT. )jl JULY ZL Circus Grounds YORK COUNTY SHOPPING CENTER (re or of Sears) Performances at 2 and 8:00 p.m.

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Mortcet St. Chet Patterson Sons Qwoontgote Shopping Center sKelly Jewelers Sears Roebuck York County Shopping Center Reineberg's Shoe Store Village Green Shopping Center OR ANY SERTOMA MEMBER Vatican Museum Art. Lawrence Fleischman, director of Kennedy Galleries in New York, stands with cast of Leonard Baskin's "Judith with the Head of Holofernes." The statue will be one of the works on display in thej Vatican Museum of 20th Century art located in the refurbished Caesar Borgia apartments adjoining the Sistine Chapel. The new museum is the first to provide a world showcase for modern American artists and also the first specifically for works expressing universal spiritual themes. (AP) TO BE GIVEN AWAY LAST NIGHT OF.