Rick Wakeman

A concert by Rick Wakeman, the keyboard player whose career spans the progressive rock of Yes and a long run of solo albums, staged at the London Coliseum in London.

Rick Wakeman is a keyboard player whose career began in the British rock scene of the early 1970s. He joined the progressive rock group Yes in 1971, appearing on their album Fragile, and recorded with them for several years. His solo work started in 1973 with The Six Wives of Henry VIII, a suite of pieces inspired by the wives of Henry VIII, and continued in 1974 with Journey to the Centre of the Earth, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

The London Coliseum, on St Martin's Lane in the West End, is a theatre and the home of English National Opera, and it also hosts concerts and shows. The evening will appeal to listeners following British progressive rock and the keyboard-led sound of Wakeman's solo records, as well as the wider catalogue of Yes.