Yes - Yessongs (73)

Disco 1
Parte 1
Parte 2

01 - Opening (Excerpt From Firebird Suite )
02 - Siberian Khatru
03 - Heart Of The Sunrise
04 - Perpetual Change
05 - And You And I
06 - Mood For A Day
07 - Excerpts From The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
08 - Roundabout



Disco 2
01. I've Seen All Good People
02. Long Distance Runaround The Fish
03. Close To The Edge
04. Yours Is No Disgrace
05. Starship Trooper

Yes - Tormato (78)

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01- Future Times # Rejoice
02- Don't Kill The Whale
03- Madrigal
04- Release, Release
05- Arriving Ufo
06- Circus Of Heaven
07- Onward
08- On The Silent Wings Of Freedom

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans (74)

Disco 1

01 - The Revealing Science Of God (Dance Of The Dawn)

02 - The Remembering (High The Memory)

Disco 2

03 - The Ancient' (Giants Under The Sun)

04 - Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)

Rick Wakeman - Tapestries (96)

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01 Fremiet's Cat
02 Time Will Tell
03 Fountains Of Love
04 A View From A Window
05 Les Vendanges
06 Summer's End
07 Clair De Lune
08 A Brighter Dawn
09 The Blue Lily
10 Tapestries
11 The Garden Party
12 Portraits In A Gallery
13 The Daydream
14 The Storyteller


This is the second of Rick and Adam's albums for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the CD booklet features images from tapestries in the museum's collection.

Like the first, Romance of the Victorian Age, this is a piano-based collection, though there are slightly more other instruments added here.

Also like the first, Rick and Adam's compositions alternate, but this one also features a classical adaptation, a version of Debussy's "Clair de Lune" arranged by Rick.

Again like the first, the album begins with its liveliest piece, here Rick's "Fremiet's Cat," and thereafter features mainly slower and more contemplative music, with simpler and more restrained pieces (mainly Adam's) contrasting with more complex ones (mainly Rick's).

And finally, like the first, this one features fine playing by both men. But overall, the first one is better.

Rick Wakeman - Softsword (91)

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01 Magna Charter
02 After Prayers
03 Battle Sonata
04 The Siege
05 Rochester Collage
06 The Story Of Love
07 March Of Time
08 Don't Fly Away
09 Isabella
10 Softsword
11 Hymn Of Hope


Based on music Wakeman wrote for the finale of a Dickens Festival in Rochester-upon-Medway, England, this is an unclassifiable melange of an album, stylistically similar to Phantom Power or Time Machine.

If the songs fit into a storyline, this is not explained in the liner notes.

There are songs based on historical topics (but with lyrics grounded in modern idiom), sad and pleading love songs, and several instrumentals, a couple of which feature some good keyboard playing.

Rick Wakeman - Silent Nights (85)

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01 Tell 'Em All You Know
02 The Opening Line
03 The Opera
04 Man's Best Friend
05 Glory Boys
06 Silent Nights
07 Ghost Of A Rock 'N' Roll Star
08 The Dancer
09 Elgin Mansions
10 That's Who I Am


Wakeman's first of many albums for President Records, this was recorded with a rock band featuring Rick Fenn of Mason-Fenn on guitar, ex-Strawbs bass player Chas Cronk, and perennial Wakeman sideman Tony Fernandez on drums.

Seven tracks feature lead vocals by Gordon Neville, who is less strident than the average Wakeman vocalist.

Wakeman himself sings/narrates on the comical "The Dancer."

With Wakeman's career on the skids as it was, the lyrics to "Ghost of a Rock n' Roll Star" ("He's an aging man without a future plan / He was a star but now they've all forgot") sound autobiographical.

There's no bombast here, but no excitement either. Wakeman's own performance is good, especially on the delicate instrumental "Elgin Mansions."