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Rhapsodies (album)

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Released
  
May 1979

Rhapsodies (1979)
  
The Burning (1981)

Release date
  
May 1979

Label
  
A&M Records

Length
  
67:14

Artist
  
Rick Wakeman

Producer
  
Tony Visconti

Genre
  
Progressive rock

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Recorded
  
1978-79; La Grange Studios; Mountain Studios, Switzerland

Similar
  
Rick Wakeman albums, Progressive rock albums

Rick wakeman pedra da gavea


Rhapsodies is a double LP by keyboardist Rick Wakeman, which was released in 1979. It was his last studio release on A&M.

Contents

Side one

  1. "Pedra da Gavea" – 4:11
  2. "Front Line" – 3:42
  3. "Bombay Duck" – 3:14
  4. "Animal Showdown (Yes We Have No Bananas)" – 2:40 (Wakeman, Frank Silver, Irving Cohn)
  5. "Big Ben" – 3:48

Side two

  1. "Rhapsody in Blue" – 5:26 (George Gershwin; arranged by Tony Visconti)
  2. "Wooly Willy Tango" – 3:24
  3. "The Pulse" – 5:21
  4. "Swan Lager" – 2:50 (music taken from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" and Grieg's pianoforte "Concerto in A Minor"; arranged and adapted by Rick Wakeman)

Side three

  1. "March of the Gladiators" – 4:53
  2. "Flacons de Neige" – 5:01
  3. "The Flasher" – 5:32
  4. "The Palais" – 2:23

Side four

  1. "Stand-By" – 3:30
  2. "Sea Horses" – 3:52
  3. "Half Holiday" – 3:00
  4. "Summertime" – 4:27 (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward; arranged by Rick Wakeman)
  5. "Credits" - 2:39

Personnel

  • Rick Wakeman - keyboards, likely vocals and vocoder on "Pedra da Gavea".
  • Bruce Lynch - bass guitars
  • Frank Gibson, Jr. - drums and percussion
  • Nico Ramsden - electric guitar
  • Tony Visconti - acoustic guitar, engineer
    • Technical
  • David K. Richards - assistant engineer
  • Michael Ross - album design
  • Paul Wakefield - photography

    • Songs

    1Pedra da Gavea4:08
    2Front Line3:42
    3Bombay Duck3:14

    References

    Rhapsodies (album) Wikipedia
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