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Na, was will man mehr. Es finden sich doch immer wieder Leute, die Rick interviewen und er erzählt dann auch bereitwillig:Rick Wakeman Exclusive, Part 3: Honouring Chris Squire
Rick Wakeman has told uDiscover why he changed his mind about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and will now travel to this year's ceremony to honour his late Yes colleague Chris Squire. Wakeman will himself be inducted as a member of Yes at the 7 April ceremony in New York.
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Wakeman will be inducted into Hall of Fame as a member of the Yes line-up from the era of their 1991 album Union. He originally announced that he would not travel to the event, but has since said he will attend, now that organisers have agreed to a separate recognition of the contribution to the band of their late bassist and co-founder Chris Squire. Chris' wife Scottie will now accept a special posthumous award on her husband's behalf.
Chris-Squire“I never quite understood how they picked people for the Hall of Fame,” says Wakeman with his trademark candour. “So many bands went in far too late, and there were people in there I'd never heard of. Then so many bands, by the time they got in, key people had passed away. I thought 'This is wrong,' and I've said it for years.
“When Yes got inducted, they said 'Will you go?' and I said no, because there's only two founder members, Chris Squire and Jon Anderson, and Chris has now passed away. So if anybody deserves, after 50 years nearly, to be in there, it's Chris. Because the band went in so late, he's not there, and I think it's wrong.
“To their credit, they came back and said 'We will do a special induction for Chris, invite his wife along, she'll be presented with the induction award,' and I went 'Ok, that's fair enough. You do that, I'll turn up.'”
ARW tourWakeman hopes that the decision will lead the Hall of Fame to recognise key members of other leading rock bands in their own right. “One of the things I'm pushing for now is for loads of other musicians who never got inducted [individually], like John Entwistle, Jon Lord...why don't they have one great big induction ceremony and bring all those people in one? Hopefully this whole thing, certainly for the people who've passed away, might just change it for the future.”
Ahead of the induction, Wakeman has solo concerts in Trento and Udine on 8 and 9 February and will resume his extensive touring with Yes colleagues Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin, in Anderson Rabin Howe, with a UK tour beginning on 12 March. That's followed by shows in Belgium and Holland and a tour of Japan.
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