The band embarked on their 2008 – 2010 In the Present Tour that featured Oliver Wakeman on keyboards.

Harvey's Cube album Writer Of Songs, was produced by long term Essex Music associate John Worth, and featured a stellar cast of musicians including Ralph McTell, Cozy Powell, Danny Thompson, David Pegg and Rick Wakeman,

In January 2009, it was announced that Oliver Wakeman, son of Rick Wakeman, would be playing keyboards with the band on tours of Canada, the UK and Italy.

Several Strawbs line-ups were playing, as well as Rick Wakeman, Acoustic Strawbs with Sonja Kristina, Blue Angel Orchestra, Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby, Cry No More, Fire, Zeus and John Ford.

Moraz rose to prominence in 1974 when he replaced Rick Wakeman in Yes, playing on their album Relayer and world tour.

Wakeman played it backstage noting it sounded " more mellow than a Mellotron ", and realizing it allowed for more variety in playing styles because there was no worry about the tape running out.

" Wakeman describes " Anne of Cleves " as a " rather free-form " track, " almost having no form at all, there was a contradiction in what everyone was playing.

Around 1973-4 John was to be found playing simultaneously in two pub bands in The White Bear in Hounslow ( a venue renowned at that time as a music venue, where Rick Wakeman had been a regular player ).

Although Wakeman is a noted player of the grand piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, Minimoog and many later models of synthesiser, he is well known as a proponent ( for a time ) of the Mellotron – an analogue electronic musical instrument that uses a bank of pre-recorded magnetic tape strips, each of which is activated by a separate key on its keyboard and lasts approximately 8 seconds.

" Wakeman said the instrument " absolutely changed the face of music.

Unable to afford a Mellotron, Dave Biro invented this instrument for personal use in early 1974 and showed it to Rick Wakeman in October 1974 after a concert performance in Connecticut.

Dave Biro and Rick Wakeman are the only known musicians to use the instrument live.

The group's keyboardist Rick Wakeman released many concept albums on his own, most notably The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Rick Wakeman was an on again-off again, keyboard virtuoso for Yes who also produced several solo symphonic prog concept albums.

He took leave of the band, asserting that he would never stay in Yes purely for the money, and started work in Montserrat on a solo project that eventually involved Wakeman, Howe, and Bruford.

In November 1995, Wakeman and Howe returned to the line-up and performed on two new tracks, " Be the One " and " That, That Is ".

A 40th anniversary Close to the Edge and Back tour was scheduled to begin in 2008 that was to feature Oliver Wakeman on keyboards, as his father was advised by his doctors not to tour.

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

Wakeman joined the folk group Strawbs in 1969 and played on three of their albums.

Rick Wakeman was born on 18 May 1949 in the west London suburb of Northolt to Cyril Frank and Mildred Helen Wakeman.

The band held a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on 11 July 1970 where Wakeman performed a solo piano piece named " Temparament of Mind ".

Wakeman appeared on the front page of Melody Maker soon after, which called him " Tomorrow's Superstar ", and composed the theme music to the television show Ask Aspel.

Following the tour, as the band began work on what would become Relayer ( 1974 ), Wakeman felt further alienated from the group.

On 18 January 1974, Wakeman performed Journey to the Centre of the Earth, a forty-minute piece based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

In May 1975, Wakeman released The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, with the album was performed live at the Empire Pool on ice.

In 1975, Wakeman produced the first of two soundtracks for films by Ken Russell, that being Lisztomania ; Wakeman would go on to create the soundtrack for Crimes of Passion in 1984.

After the death of his wife, he married Louise Wakeman Knox ( 1851 – 1904 ) on November 9, 1886.

Although Wakeman never lived in Hanwell, he attended Drayton Manor Grammar School, on Drayton Bridge Road, leaving in 1966.

As of mid-2011, Anderson is collaborating with Rabin and Wakeman on a new Anderson-Wakeman-Rabin album, and likely some concerts in 2012.

This starred David Wakeman as Fester with Laurie Pollitt and Michael Harvey as Viola and Sebastian.

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

Fish was heavily influenced by Peter Hammill, two of guitarist Steve Rothery's biggest influences were David Gilmour and Andrew Latimer, keyboard player Mark Kelly's biggest inspiration was Rick Wakeman, Pete Trewavas especially loved Paul McCartney's bass lines and Mick Pointer was fond of Neil Peart's drumming.

The hoax pamphlet was written by David Goodman Croly, managing editor of the New York World, a Democratic Party paper, and George Wakeman, a World reporter.

Powell has also lent his voice to musical works, such as David Bedford's album The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, or the 2002 rock opera The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman, where he played the role of John Watson.

Baker also began a BBC Saturday night chat show, called Danny Baker After All which borrowed its style from Late Night with David Letterman, but his style and guests ( Rick Wakeman of prog rock band Yes was a regular ) did not attract the mainstream audience the slot demanded.

A revamped In The Present Tour featuring Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White of Yes plus Oliver Wakeman and Canadian singer Benoît David ( filling in for Anderson ) began in the fall of 2008 and continued into 2009.

Both Rick Wakeman and David Biro were financially ruined during the project as an estimated £ 50, 000 ( upwards of £ 322, 500 today ) disappeared into it.

* David Jensen as Jim Wakeman

Rick Wakeman plays the clavichord in the track " The Battle " from the album Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

On the track, the Yes keyboardist at the time, Rick Wakeman, provides a satirical voice-over parodying Healey.

The title track, featuring Rick Wakeman on piano, was released as a single on iTunes on 1 September 2008.

Wakeman also varied his sound by using the new polyphonic synthesizer out from Moog at the time-the Polymoog ( largely forsaking Mellotron and RMI Electra Piano )-and using church pipe organ on " Parallels " and the extended track, " Awaken " ( forsaking the Hammond organ that was a major part of both Yes's and Wakeman's sound ).

However, Yes were to merge with Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe and Sherwood was relegated to the role of side musician, appearing on one track of the subsequent album Union.

* Rick Wakeman, keyboardist who recorded his track " Jane Seymour " at the church, and who inadvertently contributed £ 2000 to the church's upkeep.

The basis of " Catherine of Aragon ", the opening track, was originally a piece that Wakeman wrote for Yes ' fourth studio album, Fragile ( 1971 ), titled " Handle With Care ".

The album was to be titled Henry VIII and His Six Wives with a track dedicated for Henry himself, but Wakeman recorded the tracks on the wives first and had used up the space available on a vinyl record.

Featured in the setlist was " Defender of the Faith ", the track Wakeman wrote about Henry before it was omitted from the album due to time constraints.

* On the tribute album Back Against the Wall, the track is performed by Rick Wakeman.