Ep. 459 - Rick Wakeman (Re-edit)
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
With over 30 minutes of unheard chat here is a re-edited and extended version of our interview with Rick Wakeman!
Rick Wakeman is best known for playing keyboards in the progressive rock band Yes. He played piano on David Bowie's Life On Mars and Space Oddity and on Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken. He's released over 90 solo albums and in 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's also an author, producer and television presenter.
Rick Wakeman is our guest in episode 459 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens and my time capsule is my podcast, |
| 0:17.0 | and in it I talk to people about the five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:22.9 | They pick four things they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. In this episode, |
| 0:28.6 | we revisit a conversation I had with the great Rick Wakeman over four years ago. We edited that |
| 0:34.6 | conversation and on listening back, realized that we'd cut out some real treasure. |
| 0:39.8 | The original episode was 50 minutes long. It's now over 1 hour, 20 minutes. |
| 0:45.0 | So why did we cut so much stuff? Well, in the early days, we felt we needed to stick to the format more closely. |
| 0:51.5 | And there is quite a long chat at the beginning with Rick about comedians he admires, |
| 0:56.1 | many of whom, sadly, have passed away since this was recorded. |
| 1:00.3 | It's worth hearing, though, despite quite a noisy fridge at points in this recording, |
| 1:04.8 | which was obviously done in the kitchen of Rick's home near Ipswich. |
| 1:08.9 | We must have tried to lose most of the noise from the |
| 1:11.3 | fridge and the edit, but it really didn't get in the way of the enjoyment, I think, but at least |
| 1:15.7 | I hope. Well, we'll find out, won't we? But personally, I could listen to Rick Wakeman |
| 1:20.1 | till the cows come home. And here's the chance to do just that. This is the musical genius |
| 1:25.9 | that is Rick Wakeman CBE. |
| 1:32.3 | I remember Jimmy Moulville, who you... |
| 1:35.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:36.9 | Jimmy Moldville said, yeah, we're going to do the next production in our own company, Mike. |
| 1:41.6 | He said, do you want to come in on him? |
| 1:43.4 | And I said, well, what are you talking about? |
| 1:45.1 | He said, you know, about 10 grand by, you know, 10% of the company. |
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